Then Republicans need to delay the vote in order to get something more than that. An FBI investigation for one thing. Instead, Republicans WANT "just an allegation". So they can dismiss it and get their pick.
I'm sorry, but people who lie under oath and has probably committed sexual assault, usually do not tend to be "competent" judges. Kavanaugh is Trump's lackey and for good reason. He needs someone on the Supreme Court that's in his corner and his alone. Which also speaks nothing in regards to competency. Trial? If only! Instead, the GOP are going to have to contend with a panel of white men, going after a woman who was sexually assaulted by a white male the GOP are trying to promote to the Supreme Court.. It won't be Kavanaugh who is going to 'hang'. Nor will it be the victim. Why do you think the GOP are resorting to such ridiculous tactics, such as not informing her first of the hearing? She's called their bluff by declaring she would testify. Now they are trying to find every way possible to ensure she does not testify.
Just in case there was any doubt as to the motivation: ... As of Wednesday evening, here’s what the key players want and where they stand. After her public disclosure earlier this week, Ford has indicated, through her lawyer, that she is unwilling, or at least unlikely, to sit for a public or private hearing Monday. ... https://slate.com/news-and-politics...udiciary-kavanaugh-hearing-supreme-court.html That could backfire.
Might be all the death threats she is getting. Or the smear attack launched by the right wing. If so, it's working. Telling women "don't speak a word of this to anyone if you know what's good for you" has a long history, unfortunately.
Her lawyer wrote a letter to Chuck Grassley explaining why it would be difficult for Ford to testify, saying she "has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats."
Does the paucity of detail not bother you? ................... If you were so inclined: How would you go about making anonymous "death threats"?
Not especially, no. We don't know all the details from out here. Call from an unlisted number and leave a message threatening to kill someone. Been done a LOT.
She had to move her family and herself out of the family home, due to the death threats she has received. Twitter allowed tweets that listed Christine Blasey Ford’s address and phone numbers and called for her to be doxxed to remain online for hours, even as hundreds of people reported them to the platform’s support team. In that time, others retweeted the messages and copied them onto Reddit, further disseminating Blasey’s contact details. Since coming forward as the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the psychology professor who lives in Northern California has been bombarded with death threats and harassment, and has reportedly gone into hiding with her family. [...] According to the profile for the doxxer’s account, which HuffPost is not naming or linking to so as to not draw more attention to Blasey’s personal info, he is a “Conservative, Republican and Trump Supporter” who lives in Philadelphia. She was never even asked to testify. The GOP pinged that to the media, without even calling or writing to her or her lawyer first. They told her to testify and then proceeded to do everything they could to ensure she does not testify. Frankly, given the number of gun mad psycho's on the right, no one would blame her if she did not turn up to testify, because doing so would probably endanger her life. Seriously? How much lower are you going to drag yourself? Are you now going to dismiss death threats against a sexual assault survivor as well?
Details Kind of like the various projects that attempted to create swarms of little robots to mimic termite behavior......... As the work progressed, the researchers soon discovered that they actually knew very little about the complexities of termites. Lacking the necessary details, their efforts came to naught. (one could assume that the moneys spent on that research were wasted-----------however, as those monies supported research that exposed some of the layers and levels of our ignorance, they may have been well invested.) ................... I find it curious that anyone trained in the sciences would be satisfied with ignorance of the details of anything and everything. ............................... So, now that you have mentioned twitter could you repost in here what you have read there (I do not tweet.) ................................ ................................... Does having an unlisted phone number really mean that the call cannot be traced?
You left out most of the key players, including what they want and where they stand. Your link likewise skipped that part, choosing instead to take public statements at face value regardless of accuracy or plausibility (Grassley, in particular, was simply lying when he claimed to be following the timeline of the Anita Hill inquiry - the prompt FBI investigation that was routinely launched then is not even scheduled yet.) I'd ask Ms Ford, or Ms Penny, or Ms Clinton, or any of the dozens of other women who were similarly threatened in well known and thoroughly vetted publicly reported circumstances, how they were delivered, and use one of those proven techniques. The "complexities" of behavior of the guys who make death threats against women who have offended them somehow are not nearly as mysterious and unknown as the behavior of termites.
You seem to be the only one here in the dark on the details--try google. Burner phones? Anonynomizing via proxies on the web? Why are you pretending that you don't know how a person can make anonymous threats?
If you had the resources you could do it, of course, and at least find the original phone #. But as it stands now you probably couldn't. Nor could she. If it happened to you you'd probably demand an investigation - which, BTW, is exactly what she has done.
What details would you like? The names of the people who she talked to about the assault? The details in the book that Mark Judge - the other person in the room - wrote? Details about what's in his yearbook? Details about the death threats? Details about her and her family - their address, their phone numbers, their schools? I have a feeling those right wing news sources you prefer aren't talking about any of that. Why not try to get a better view on what's happening? (Well, actually I bet the right wing sites you like are carrying the details of her address, phone #'s and schools - she was doxxed by a right winger, so they're probably all over that.)
I do suspect that the nsa/fbi/etc... could find out more than the simple claims.(including the sources of the threats) anecdote: When they investigated me, they found out stuff that I had completely forgotten, and introduced me to people that I had seen but did not know------------------------------and that was 1/2 a century ago.
Yes.................precisely so young sir Recordings of the voices might be enlightening? .................................... IF you tweet, and received a death threat on twitter would you take it seriously?
I am sure they could. Unfortunately: ======= The sources told Fox News on Wednesday that there were no allegations of a federal crime, therefore the bureau would not open a criminal investigation. “This is a political issue, not a law enforcement one,” one source told Fox News. ======= Perhaps. How do you know there is a recording? I answer most of my phone calls myself. If I got one for no apparent reason? Probably not. If I got several for taking action against a president who has said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose supporters? Probably.
