This woman must have told someone about it at the time, friend, roommate, co-worker whomever. I am suspicious of her story given today's political climate, the fact that this story is being pushed in right-wing media, and the little that I, as a stranger, can know of Biden's character and life. I seem to remember that Biden was praying in the situation room while watching the raid that got bin Laden went down. However, I was pinned against a wall three times on two continents by guys who wanted to grope me and check out my tonsils and there was nobody in authority to take any report of this, so I'm careful with this stuff.
why don't those same rules matter to a kavanaugh exactly?
There was enough there in terms of people who were close to kavanaugh and his victim
at the time that the incident occurred to establish some evidence. His friends. Her friends. People who knew him or were in a position to witness his behavior.
When I was about 20, my friends, male and female, went on a cheap ski vacation to Maine. Sugarloaf. Six of us, including one guy who was the partner of one of us girls, stayed in one large room. The rest of our party stayed in different rooms. There was one bathroom at the end of the hall for all the people on the floor. I was accosted in the hall by someone in the room across the hall while in my jammies with footies, and had to be escorted to the bathroom by my male roommate for the rest of our stay. I never knew the name of the kid who attacked me. If I did know his name, and he was running for office at any time in the years afterwards, I would go public and ream him a new asshole.