The whitehouse's refusal to allow the FBI to investigate sexual assault allegations is a tacit

[Augiedog]

admission that there is something to the allegations against Kavanaugh.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. And yet there's a certain karma for Kavanaugh

His sexual past is now under the microscope, just as he once obsessed over President Clinton’s (consensual) sexual activities.

[Hortensis]

2. Yes. Can't wait until it causes him to drop his pants

so his genitals can be officially examined.

[malaise]

3. On the other hand, you may find a mushroom cloud

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211147544

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Since when has the FBI and/or DOJ let the WH

dictate its To Do List?

[MichMary]

5. Serious question

How do you investigate something when the victim doesn't know when it happened? Or where it happened? When there are no contemporaneous accounts because she didn't tell anyone? When there is no medical evidence? When there is no forensic evidence?

I just don't understand what an investigation under the circumstances would look like.

[secondwind]

7. A lot can be done. Her therapist has notes, for instance.

There are friends — two of them — who she confided in more recently, when the MeToo movement began, but before the nomination.

[MichMary]

8. Her therapist has notes

which don't name the assaulter, and which states he attended "an elitist prep school" also unnamed. Seems kind of vague.

She confided in her friends "recently," not contemporaneously.

She will say it happened and he will say it didn't. That's about how far the investigation will go.

[sofa king]

6. The whole, "we'll show you what we know is clean" trick is, too.

That regarding the declassification of documents related to Russian interference, now carefully massaged and cherry picked over two years:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/17/donald-trump-orders-release-russia-investigation-documents/1340459002/

As a now long-former paralegal, which is far worse than simply not being a lawyer, the case has long since been closed. The pattern of obstruction is obvious, the obstruction is felonious, therefore the crime not only exists but it must be of an equal or larger magnitude than felony obstruction of justice.

There was one exception that applies only to the President himself: being too stupid and narcissistic to recognize that he was being manipulated, and being a naturally obstinate jerk. But his private meetings with Vladimir Putin put all of that to rest, too.

With a fairly large team of researchers, one would probably be able to get a fairly decent picture of what's being obscured and who is hiding it by analyzing the scope and sources of the declassified documents. You know, what offices released material and which did not, what parts of normal communications are absent, gaps in the record, omitted sources, what information should have been released that wasn't, repetition of misinformation in the record, and so on.

The exact same principles can be applied to the Kavanaugh hearings. When they're stonewalling a subject, it's because they know that subject is a liability.