Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings

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I certainly hope that everyone in this country believes that we should continue to scrutinize our elected officials to ensure that they continue to belong in their positions. Any new information should be considered, though not necessarily believed immediately as fact. Someone being in their position is not an automatic pass at any future investigations or scrutiny.

The NYT's story should have included the initial information about the alleged victim, but that also doesn't take away from the fact that they said this was coming from an alleged witness and that the actual focus of the story was the fact that the allegation we knew of was not properly investigated. The part about the new allegation is a whole 4 sentences in a much longer story. The report points out that the first accuser gave the names of 25 people to the FBI who could corroborate her story, none of which the FBI reached out to, even as many tried to contact the FBI on their own. Two agents told her that her story was credible but they had their hands tied until they were authorized to move forward. Grassley, railroading the confirmation forward, would claim that there was no corroboration to the story.

The sham investigation is the story, and it is sad to see toxic partisanship and false narratives being used to again derail any attempts to have a fair investigation into someone who can serve in a vital role for life.

We live in an age of misinformation and twisted narratives and that is apparent in the need we are seeing to use dishonesty to further attack the free press and rule of law.