{"id":137273,"date":"2018-10-05T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/so-yes-for-the-record-the-whole-fbi-kavanaughfollow-up-was-a-sham.html"},"modified":"2018-10-05T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:20:37","slug":"so-yes-for-the-record-the-whole-fbi-kavanaughfollow-up-was-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/so-yes-for-the-record-the-whole-fbi-kavanaughfollow-up-was-a-sham.html","title":{"rendered":"So, yes, for the record, the whole FBI Kavanaughfollow-up was a sham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because whether or not the White House put limits on it, it also only followed up on a couple of items that GOP<\/i> Senators said they wanted looked at. Which didn't include (among many other things) the extent to which Kavanaugh over-drank in high school and college — because he "admitted" that sometimes he drank a wee bit too much and that, well, he still likes beer. <\/p>\n

Except that doesn't get into alleged behavior about violence and blackouts while intoxicated, but apparently only Democratic Senators were interested whether he was lying about all that (or could remember it at all) … and, of course, the Democratic Senators were already voting No, and they're a minority on the Judiciary Committee, so why bother investigating what they<\/i> wanted?<\/p>\n

Just worth noting for when folk chime in (today or five years from now) that "Hey, the FBI checked him out yet again and he came out clean, so he must be the boy scout he keeps claiming to be, so quitcherbitchin."<\/p>\n

[h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhite House confirms FBI’s Kavanaugh investigation only looked at what Republican senators wanted<\/a><\/span>
\nRaj Shah says it’s irrelevant whether Trump’s Supreme Court pick had memory lapses since he admitted he likes beer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because whether or not the White House put limits on it, it also only followed up on a couple of items that GOP Senators said they wanted looked at. Which didn't include (among many other things) the extent to which Kavanaugh over-drank in high school and college — because he "admitted" that sometimes he drank … Continue reading “So, yes, for the record, the whole FBI Kavanaughfollow-up was a sham”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27195,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/secrecy-and-democracy-are-incompatible.html","url_meta":{"origin":137273,"position":0},"title":"Secrecy and Democracy are incompatible","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-12 11:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will grant the need for certain operational secrets, especially as those operations are going on. 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