sen tom Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford

[riversedge]

cotton is as disgusting as nunes and grassley and lindsey Graham.




Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/30/cotton-feinstein-ford-leaked-letter-854019



Updated 09/30/2018 02:25 PM EDT

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office will be investigated to determine whether it leaked a confidential letter from one of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday.

Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, also said lawyers recommended to Christine Blasey Ford by Democrats will face a Washington, D.C., bar investigation for telling her that Senate Judiciary Committee staffers would not travel to California to interview her about her sexual-assault allegation.
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“Any impact that this entire episode has had,“ Cotton told John Dickerson, “on women's willingness to come forward and report sexual assault, which I encourage them all to do immediately after it happens, is caused by the Democrats, is caused by Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer not respecting her requests for confidentiality.“



Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, had received a letter from Ford some months ago describing the incident with Kavanaugh but had kept the material confidential, as requested in the letter. At some point, information about Ford was leaked to the press, though the California Democrat denied that she or her office were responsible.


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“We already know what everyone at the party has said,” he said, adding that the investigation will likely make a few senators more comfortable about voting to confirm Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.......................................







“She has been victimized by Democrats ... on a search-and-destroy mission for Brett Kavanaugh," Sen. Tom Cotton said of Christine Blasey Ford. | Pete Marovich/Getty Images

[LonePirate]

1. Someone released info from a letter Ford wanted to be confidential? What law was broken here?

As a private citizen, I have no recourse if I send a letter or email and I tell the recipient it is confidential but they share it anyway. There is no law broken here.

Also, Cotton’s outrage is pretty hypocritical here given the whole Clinton email issue - and not one email on her server was ever stolen, hacked or made public by illicit means.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Don't you know

that if somebody sends a letter to a Democrat, it automatically becomes the highest level of classified information.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. tom cottonmouth is a piece of crap and a snake I wouldn't touch w/ a 10 foot pole ...

they have been after DiFi for some time now and are trying to pin this on her. A US Senator. Isn't it amazing that wham, this is going to happen, when other things need doing and nothing gets done?

DiFi is worth easily 10 of the repug senators combined. Period.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. This is plenty stupid

And he is even more stupid to think that this will make more people willing to vote for Kavanaugh.

[spanone]

4. republicans....enemies of the state.

fuck you cotton

[mnmoderatedem]

5. Grand Obfuscating Party

[DFW]

6. My, my they sure have learned their lines, haven't they?

How many Republicans have used the "search-and-destroy" line now since Kavanawful used it last Thursday? I've lost count. Either Frank Luntz is in the DC background, locked in some suite in the DC Trump hotel, giving them all their talking points, or Sean Vanity is doing it over the phone from New York.

Did anyone ever see the Film "Z (he lives)?"

At the end, when all the corrupt government officials are brought before an honest prosecutor, they all describe some unknown agitator who was "lithe and supple, like a tiger." After about five guys have used that exact same phrase in their separate depositions, when it comes up in the testimony one more time, the court reporter taking down the testimony looks up for just a brief second at the prosecutor with a knowing glance. The film is in French, but it is about the takeover of Greece by the Fascist colonels in 1967.

When I hear all these Republicans coming out with exactly the same phrase, I have to ask myself: do they REALLY think the country is dumb enough to not notice they are all repeating lines given to them? Or is it that they know perfectly well what they are doing, which is trying to subliminally implant the phrase in their followers through repetition, so that they begin to believe it, too? If it's Luntz, then the latter makes perfect sense. If it's someone with less sophistication, then I figure they just ran out of imagination.

[lunatica]

9. They all get their talking points via email or instant messaging

I noticed them doing it during the Clinton years. Every last one of them would say the exact same thing all day long in all the talk shows. It was very obvious. There were no widespread computers or electronic messaging so I just figured they used the fastest form of communication of the time which was the fax machine.

[backtoblue]

7. .

(Coherent thought later, maybe)

[GeorgeGist]

10. Evil with skin.

[malaise]

11. But Kavanaugh accepting hacked Democratic info and lying about it

Is A OK.