Two Men Told Senate Staffers They Had "The Encounter" With Christine Blasey Ford Not Brett Kavanaugh

[DonViejo]

Source: BuzzFeed News


The Senate Judiciary Committee did not name the two men who told staff they believed they were involved in the "encounter" alleged by Christine Blasey Ford.

Zoe Tillman
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Reporting From Washington, DC

Posted on September 26, 2018, at 11:33 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee staff interviewed two men who said they believed that they, and not US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, had "the encounter" with the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, according to new information released Wednesday night by the committee.

The revelation — which came on the eve of much-anticipated public testimony from Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of assault, Christine Blasey Ford — included few details. The committee didn't identify the men, offer details about what they said, state whether committee staff found their accounts credible, or indicate whether there would be any further follow-up.

The committee released a timeline describing how committee Chair Chuck Grassley and his staff had responded to misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh, starting with Ford's account of being attacked at a party in the summer of 1982. On Sept. 24, the committee said that staff interviewed "a man who believes he, not Judge Kavanaugh, had the encounter with Dr. Ford in 1982 that is the basis of his complaint."

Committee staff interviewed the man again the next day, on Sept. 25, according to the timeline. "He described his recollection of their interaction in some detail," according to the committee.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/two-men-told-senate-staffers-they-had-the-encounter-with

[underpants]

1. Mercenaries

Operatives just like Kavanaugh. They'll take one for the team and in someway be richly rewarded

[lagomorph777]

22. I don't even think they're mercenaries. The committee staff made them up.

[Judi Lynn]

40. Could be they enlisted more help from the staffers they sent to the Miami-Dade vote recount

to keep those votes from being recount, where they succeeded. Remember them?






Info:
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=david_leahy_1

[lagomorph777]

41. No actual people are needed. They just wrote some shit down.

[katmondoo]

2. This is really sick and really low down dirty even for Republicans

[Anon-C]

3. So the SJC interviewed these two men but not Debra Ramirez, Julie Swetnick or Mark Judge

Sounds reasonable.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Muddy the waters

[htuttle]

5. Did they provide a sworn deposition?

If not, they aren't worth listening to. If they did, it seems the only way to get to the bottom of it is an FBI investigation. Somebody is committing perjury.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. Are they going to testify under oath during an open committee session?

Seems peculiar they popped up just before the hearing. If I were the FBI, the first thing I'd look at is their bank accounts to see if there are any recent large deposits.

[forgotmylogin]

30. Rs already established if players in this game remain anonymous, they can be discounted.

Let Ford be in the same room with them and say what they allege to her face.

[moreland01]

6. Let me guess . . .

They came to the interview wearing MAGAt hats and t-shirts that said "Better Russian than Democrat."

Just guessing.

[tanyev]

7. Gosh, sounds like the FBI really, really needs to get involved.

[watoos]

8. You bet, I agree

cancel all of the hearings and scheduled votes and call in the FBI.

The article says that judicial committee staff did the interview which is pretty convenient keeping the judicial committee Senators out of it.

I live in Pa. and from here I can smell a big stinking rat. Karl Rove would be proud of these skull fuckers.

[ScratchCat]

9. Under oath

so this ends it?

[watoos]

10. Putin must have some really bad shit

on these Republican Senators.

So will the complicit M$M run with this tale? I keep trying to explain how important the narrative is in everything. Avenatti had changed it in opposition to Kavanaugh, now this. I have to take a break here I'm swearing too much.

[atreides1]

21. Money!!!

My theory is that the Russians have been funneling money to Republicans since Obama's first term...of course this was done through shell companies and lobbying firms!

And now payment is due, and that means assisting in making the US a puppet of Putin and Russia!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. TWO men

volunteering for sexual assault duty

This smacks of a disinformation campaign

[watoos]

12. Wherever they work report it to their employers. Fire their asses.

Oh wait, they probably work for the GOP.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. "I am Sparticus!"

[JohnnyRingo]

27. Good one

That's apt

[knightmaar]

14. Wait, two *different* men think they were both the main actor in the attempted rape?

What are we talking about here?

Are they taking the heat for him, a la, "I am rapist-Spartacus"?

Or is it just that so many frat boys were drunkenly raping women in 1982 that they all think they actually did it?

[UpInArms]

15. Since there is no statute of limitations in Maryland, did they turn them over to law enforcement?

When will formal charges be filed? Should be a slam dunk, since they have pled guilty under oath, right?

[watoos]

16. Yip, and their employers should immediately fire them.

[UpInArms]

18. And don't forget the monthly reporting as a sex offender ...

For the rest of their lives

[DeminPennswoods]

39. And registration as sex offenders wherever they live.

for life.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Well then, a police or FBI investigation is needed, and the confirmation process must be suspended

until they reach conclusions. Plus these 2 need to appear in front of the committee, if they don't get charged (or if they only get charged with wasting police time, or attempting to pervert the course of justice).

[watoos]

20. Either way they are committing a crime or committed a crime.

[YOHABLO]

23. Who are these so-called ''senate staffers'' ? These Rethuglicans will stoop so low.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. When a bank is robbed....

we tend to believe the banker before we give credibility to bank robbers.

Except for Repugs.....they are the bank robbers......

[KPN]

25. Lol!

Too much! Beside their fanatical deplorables and religious right, who in the world would fall for this kind of crap.

[Oneironaut]

26. Have them make this claim under oath, then.

Otherwise, someone could make a temporary claim to derail the hearings, and then recant then after the fact.

[still_one]

28. That doesn't cut it. Put them under oath. No one should remain anonymous for attempted rape

[BlueIdaho]

29. Lee Atwater would be so proud.

Rat Fucking...

[muntrv]

31. Oh really? Call Maryland State Police and have them investigated since there is no statute of

limitations for rape.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

32. My bullshit detector just exploded

Did anyone else's?

😬

[PubliusEnigma]

33. Why drag this shit in here?

[chowder66]

34. Yeah, if this was true it would be all over everything and the republicans would be using it to take

advantage.

If this was actually true maybe these two guys are the ones mistaken about who their victim was.

[RockRaven]

35. "Oh, really? What were their names?". . . . "Uh... Larry... and, um... Moe?"

sure. right.

[woodsprite]

36. Wish they could find proof of payoff/offers to those guys. n/t

[area51]

37. What curious wording ...

calling it an "encounter" and an "interaction" for attempted rape.

[DeminPennswoods]

38. Make their names public and ensure they are required to

register for life as sex offenders.