Democrats move the goalposts on FBI investigation

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/democrats-move-the-
goalposts-on-fbi-investigation

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court became an
unpleasant affair because Democrats chose to make it one.

Rather than investigate Christine Blasey Ford’s 36-year-old sexual assault
allegation against him confidentially during August, as would have been
normal for such cases, they leaked her story to the press to damage the
nominee. They timed their ambush for maximum political effect, when the
scheduled hearings were over. It's what they did to Justice Clarence
Thomas.

The Democrats’ media circus that we hope ends this week puts in a glaring
spotlight their cynicism and disdain for the truth. The public spectacle
they engineered has encouraged every crazy to make new allegations, each
as uncorroborated as the original, but less credible or plain ludicrous.

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The more time that passes without a confirmation vote, the more false
accusations can be dreamed up and flung like mud against a wall to see if
it will stick. In the Democratic feedback loop, senators and their allies
leak highly damaging stories about Kavanaugh to the press with next to no
evidence and claim that their vacuous insinuations are evidence of a
pattern of perfidy.

Democrats use every minute of delay to leak stories and invent evidence
where none exists. With public doubt rising about Ford's contradictory
evidence, the party shifted attention to Kavanaugh’s fondness for beer and
his propensity for high school jokes when he was in, er, high school.
Through the filter of Democrats' disingenuousness, these contemptibly
slight data points are presented as evidence that Kavanaugh is a serial
rapist. It's rubbish.

Tendentious journalists cherry-pick portions of Kavanaugh’s public
testimony and present it as evidence of perjury, knowingly omitting
testimony under oath that makes clear what he meant and that he was not
lying or trying to mislead.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who deserves a
medal for patience and fairness in this process, gave Ford, Kavanaugh’s
only nearly credible accuser, a chance to tell her story last Thursday.
She testified with emotion, but also with substantial holes in her
account. None of of the witnesses she cited could corroborate what she
said or fill in the massive gaps where she left things out. Grassley gave
Kavanaugh a chance to rebut, which he did with the anger one would expect
from a falsely accused innocent man.

The curious thing about the hearing was that Democrats spent very little
of their time grilling Kavanaugh about the allegations against him. They
appeared preoccupied with advising the nominee about how he should advise
the committee to investigate him. One after another, Democratic senators
demanded Kavanaugh call on the White House and Judiciary Committee to open
an FBI investigation.

Democrats repeated the words “FBI investigation” again and again during
the hearing. Throughout, they implied that there is something magical
about the FBI that would bring closure. Again, it's rubbish. They got
their investigation, but they instantly pocketed that concession and
tacked away, claiming it would be inadequate. Let us hope Republicans
stiffen their spines and stop appeasing these dishonest bullies.

Democrats are preparing the ground to say the FBI failed to find anything
only because it wasn’t given enough time or manpower or resources. In
short, they are making excuses for the inevitable conclusions that
investigators can find nothing important against Kavanaugh.

Moving the goalposts is the only thing Democrats can be relied on to do.
They pocket each concession and instantly move on to their next line of
attack, no matter how inconsistent it is with the one they used before.

Their only aim is to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation until (they hope and
pray) they take over the Senate in the midterm elections. At that point,
they will simply refuse to let President Trump fill this or any other
Supreme Court vacancy. Their goal, as Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii,
admitted, is to keep the slot formerly filled by Justice Anthony Kennedy
open until 2020.

If Senate Republicans let Democrats abuse and manipulate the process, they
will deservedly lose not only the Senate but also all the respect of the
people who used to vote for them.



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