{"id":177457,"date":"2019-09-15T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/15\/so-not-a-surprise-8\/"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:09:00","slug":"so-not-a-surprise-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/15\/so-not-a-surprise-8\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"
It turns out that there is extensive corroboration regarding Brett Kavanaugh’s drunken assaults against women which the FBI refused to investigate<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn\u2019t prepared for what she\u2019d find there.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

During the winter of her freshman year, a drunken dormitory party unsettled her deeply. She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI had gone through high school, I\u2019m the good girl, and now, in one evening, it was all ripped away,\u201d she said in an interview earlier this year at her Boulder, Colo., home. By preying upon her in this way, she added, Mr. Kavanaugh and his friends \u201cmake it clear I\u2019m not smart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Kavanaugh, now a justice on the Supreme Court, has adamantly denied her claims. Those claims became a flash point during his confirmation process last year, when he was also fighting other sexual misconduct allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, who had attended a Washington-area high school near his.<\/p>\n

Ms. Ramirez\u2019s story would seem far less damaging to Mr. Kavanaugh\u2019s reputation than those of Dr. Ford, who claimed that he pinned her to a bed, groped her and tried to remove her clothes while covering her mouth.<\/p>\n

But while we found Dr. Ford\u2019s allegations credible during a 10-month investigation, Ms. Ramirez\u2019s story could be more fully corroborated. During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been \u201cthe talk of campus.\u201d Our reporting suggests that it was.<\/p>\n

At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez\u2019s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time.<\/p>\n

We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez\u2019s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier; the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. <\/p>\n

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Ms. Ramirez\u2019s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau \u2014 in its supplemental background investigation \u2014 interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.<\/p>\n

Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her \u201ccredible.\u201d But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. \u201c\u2018We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,\u2019\u201d Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez\u2019s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. \u201cIt was almost a little apologetic.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It should surprise no one that Kavanaugh lied his ass off, and the FBI, likely at the direction at the DoJ, did its best to cover it up.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, even if the Dems were to control 2\/3 of the Senate, the possibility of impeachment, or even a meaningful investigation are minuscule. <\/p>\n

I would expect an appeal to Kavanaugh’s decency or sense of shame to have to fail as well:  There is no evidence that he has either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that there is extensive corroboration regarding Brett Kavanaugh’s drunken assaults against women which the FBI refused to investigate: Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn\u2019t prepared for what she\u2019d find there. \u2026\u2026\u2026 During the winter of her freshman year, a drunken dormitory party unsettled her …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,407,374],"class_list":["post-177457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}