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As #DrChristineBlaseyFord recounts her experience, she is becoming visibly more upset. I can hear her breathing. This is agony for this woman.
She ran into #MarkJudge once in a Safeway.
Prior to the assault he had always been friendly. 6-8 wks when she ran into him, he was visibly uncomfortable. "He looked ill" #KavanaughHearings
The stairwell, livingroom, the bed on the right side of the bedroom, the bathroom in close proximity, the uproarious laughter, the multiple attempts to escape & finally the ability to do so.
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Immediate impact - first 4 yrs the worst.
Longer term impacts of anxiety and relationship challenges.
The younger you are the worst it is - brain not fully developed.
#KavanaughHearings @SenBlumenthal reads from @LindseyGrahamSC book:
I learned how much courage it takes from a deep and hidden place for a sexual abuse victim to testify against their assailant.
Would you like #MarkJudge to be interviewed?
She says she could be more helpful if she knew when he worked at the Safeway but concedes it's not up to her.
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Mitchell asks who paid for polygraph. Both lawyers step in and say, let us put an end to this...her lawyers paid for her polygraph...as is routine.
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Mitchell keeps questioning her about whether someone spoke to senators or staff.. Her lawyer objects and says you told her not to guess, now you are asking her to guess. Ask her what she knows.
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Troll: Did you get any info, questions, prior to today, in advance and while you're there wtf did you have for lunch on Aug 5th 1997?
I want to smack this woman.
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M: Describe all the other social interactions with JudgeDread
Ford: 4-5 parties sophomore year.
Troll: Did anything happen?
Ford: No THERE WAS NO SEXUAL ASSAULT if that's what you're asking
#KavanaughHearings @SenKamalaHarris You are not on trial. You had the courage to come forward. I was struck in your testimony - you reached out to your own rep, hoping they would inform WH BEFORE Kavanaugh was named. Persuasive. I believe you.
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Harris: Trauma and shame and the fear of consequences cause survivors to delay, if they come forward at all.
You have passed a polygraph, asked for witnesses, outside experts, FBI investigations...Kavanaugh has not (to all items)
#KavanaughHearings @SenKamalaHarris The FBI COULD HAVE GATHERED FACTS ETC ETC...STANDARD PROCEDURE. Mitchell's county website even has info supporting this.
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oooh...Mitchell just let out a big sigh.
says they are almost done.
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Are you aware the 3 ppl at party gave statements that contradict you?
Ford: yes. Leland has significant health challenges. She let me know she had lawyer take care of for her and apologized right afterward.
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Mitchell: Have you researched the best practices of interviewing victims of trauma? Would you believe this is not the best setting? lol.
The best way is one on one in private to just let vicitm talk.
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Mitchell: Did anyone ever advise you to go get a forensic interview?
Ford: no
#KavanaughHearings @SenFeinstein Judge doesn't want to testify, we can't test his memory. She's bothered that he wasn't even asked to testify.
A politically-diverse team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic between Alfa Bank & Trump Org in search of answers.
"MAX" and his colleagues asked not to be identified by name due to security/privacy.
JUNE 2016
news broke about DNC hack & a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert. Reports pointed at Russia, which suggested to most members that Ru intelligence was involved.
ICYMI...
That unauthorized helicopter flight that went down a few days ago...killing the Pootlovin senior Russian prosecutor linked to Veselnitskaya (of Trump Tower anti-Magnitsky Hillary dirt fame)
Two bullets 'were found in pilot's body' after helicopter crash which killed senior Putin prosecutor linked to lawyer who held Trump Tower meeting
The pilot involved in the helicopter crash was found with two bullets in his body.
Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan - a former MP and long-time ally of Putin - died when his AS-350 helicopter came down in Kostroma region northeast of Moscow on Wednesday.
Former Dean of Yale Law School:
Brett Kavanaugh Cannot Have It Both Ways politi.co/2pGXFx3 via @politico
For as long as Kavanaugh sits on the court, he will remain a symbol of partisan anger...behind the smiling face of judicial benevolence lies the force of an urgent will to power. No one... could possibly believe that Kavanaugh might actually be a detached and impartial judge.
Each and every Republican who votes for Kavanaugh, therefore, effectively announces that they care more about controlling the Supreme Court than they do about the legitimacy of the court itself.
Committee Democrats asked to immediately send transcripts to Mueller, who hasn’t been allowed to see them under Nunes’ rules. There’s good reason to believe many witnesses committed perjury or offered info relevant to the SC’s work.
Nunes opposed it, and it was voted down.
Committee Democrats then moved to have the transcripts released to the public immediately — after a 10-day intelligence community review — to avoid any selective release or other political manipulation.