{"id":104324,"date":"2018-09-21T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104324"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T10:49:58","slug":"kavanaugh-update-the-games-liberal-lawyers-play-when-they-have-no-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104324","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh Update: The Games Liberal Lawyers Play When They Have No Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Kavanaugh Accuser Now Willing To Testify Sans FBI Probe, With Conditions<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the possibility of GOP legislators calling Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s bluff, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford has dramatically flipped, telling legislators in an email\u00a0<em>somehow<\/em>\u00a0obtained by the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0that she &#8220;<strong>would be prepared to testify next week<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0so long as senators offer &#8220;<strong>terms that are fair and which ensure her safety<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kav%20accuser_0.jpg?itok=SYdc43om\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kav%20accuser_0.jpg?itok=SYdc43om\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kav%20accuser_0.jpg\" srcset=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kav%20accuser_0.jpg?itok=SYdc43om 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4e45b159-931b-4f7b-8201-97e51e013f02\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kav-accuser_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104326\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kav-accuser_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kav-accuser_0.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kav-accuser_0-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blasey claims to have received a multitude of death threats, for which zero arrests have been made in an age of easily-traceable IP addresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the email, obtained by The New York Times, the lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford said that testifying Monday \u2014 the timetable Republicans have set for a hearing \u2014 \u201cis not possible and the Committee\u2019s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event.\u201d The lawyer reiterated that it is Dr. Blasey\u2019s \u201cstrong preference\u201d that \u201ca full investigation\u201d occur before her testimony \u2014 wording that stopped short of demanding an F.B.I. probe and suggested she is open to testifying without one. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/20\/us\/politics\/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey.html?emc=edit_na_20180920&amp;amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;amp;nlid=66475683ing-news&amp;amp;ref=headline\">NYTimes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home,&#8221;\u00a0the email reads. &#8220;<strong>She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blasey has accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape during a high school party in Montgomery County, MD. She can&#8217;t recall the date, location, or much more about the event &#8211; just that Kavanaugh allegedly held her down and groped her while another guy watched (who categorically denies it), and she was able to escape.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, committee GOP agreed to hire an outside counsel to handle questioning of Blasey, rather than have the committee members themselves question her, according to a Republican Senate official familiar with the decision &#8211; as opposed to 11 male senators questioning Blasey on her account of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former clerk to the late USSC Justice Antonin Scalia, Ed Whelan, insists that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-20\/fmr-scalia-clerk-expects-compelling-evidence-exonerate-kavanaugh-next-week\">evidence will emerge<\/a>\u00a0next week exonerating Kavanaugh, and that Dianne Feinstein will &#8220;soon be apologizing&#8221; to Kav.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-20\/kavanaugh-accuser-now-willing-testify-sans-fbi-probe-conditions\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-20\/kavanaugh-accuser-now-willing-testify-sans-fbi-probe-conditions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavanaugh Accuser Now Willing To Testify Sans FBI Probe, With Conditions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}