The Republicans' only concern is that information concerning their candidate has been made public. I find it less than credible that they weren't aware of his drunken and unlawful behavior. The Republican Party has lost the last any degree of respect that to which they are worthy. Their requirement for their candidate had to meet one and only one requirement. That their nomination must be determined to overturn a women's right to control of their own bodies. Their claim that they are protecting the life of the unborn is a complete utter sham. The only thing that they are protecting is their hold over the powerful evangelical and conservative block of voters who are single issue voters. The Republican Party has been transformed into a party that represents the most repressive and outright racists segments of the population. Hilary had it right. It is the party of the deplorables and ignoramuses that are being taken for a ride.

with their endless, drunken, penis-wagging, lying bullshit.

Rather unseemly, wouldn't you agree?

It’s what republicans do.

The repubs will still confirm kavanaugh. The repubs figured out years ago that they need to take over the courts. The repub leaning courts will reject what we the people want. If the Dems win at least the House, they will be able to slow the repub/trump agenda down. If the Dems somehow also win the Senate, then we can really make an impact.

Am I right....Dems?

To help the billionaires continue robbing us, and stopping any progress.

Don't forget.

When they go to the press, then they are put down for not going to the authorities.

Truth is the their enemy. It started with Nixon and intensified under Reagan and the crooked Bush gang.

I'll bet he's still got FBI contacts or can at least refer you to the right person(s).

that the KGOP wants to install on our Court.

It would be interesting if someone contacted the FBI and said that they could corroborate in favor of Kavanaugh and see if they get through right away...

Impeachment for BK is the only answer. If he stays on the DC court, every case that he rules on needs to be appealed because of his prejudice.

Is that right? Is that a meme?

If the field offices of the FBI have not been alerted, then they are not doing their jobs.

Booker has already earned the "brass balls" award on this Judiciary Committee hearing.

Contacting any federal agency is a joke. I once tried to talk to an ombudsman at the Financial Protection Bureau and it was the biggest runaround I’ve ever received in my life.

The feds are great at making laws and regulations, but putrid about being available to citizens to ask questions about those laws, or seek guidance, etc.

There are no secrets anymore.

I sent the below to Greg Sargent at the Post, Gail Collins at the Times, Rachel's show, and CNN. Trump is playing word games and lying about the latitude the FBI has while he runs out the clock on his sham investigation. I wrote the below before his supposed relaxing of the restrictions Monday, but my opinion hasn't changed. I notice we still haven't seen either set of Trump's orders to the FBI. Until we do, assume Trump's lying and the background investigation is still on a severely tight leash. WaPo says the restrictions are slightly less than they were, but they don't know how or how much. And what they were was a farce: 4 people, 3 of whom were already on record as remembering nothing, and the 4th already on record as denying everything.


I'd rather this be a new thread but I just re-joined (after a decade) and can't make it a thread yet. If someone else will copy and paste it into its own thread, please do.

If McConnell holds a vote Friday, then 3 of the 6 days the FBI has are already gone. Witnesses against Kavanaugh need to force their statements into this outrageous "process." This is how.


Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 6:32 PM
To: rachel@msnbc.com
Subject: Fw: Publicize a way to get Kav reports into FBI records anyway


Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 6:01 PM
To: sargentg@washpost.com
Subject: Publicize a way to get Kav reports into FBI records anyway


Hi Greg:

I think this workaround will work; check with your Bureau sources about whether it will.

Do your best to get the word out, FAST, that if you have relevant info on Kavanaugh or Mark Judge, to not call the FBI and wait for a call back, because that's probably been specifically prohibited by McCabe and Trump until the 7 days are up.

Tell people to instead PHYSICALLY GO TO AN FBI OFFICE, tell them you're there to REPORT A FEDERAL CRIME, and then sit in their damn lobby and refuse to leave until a SPECIAL AGENT TAKES YOUR REPORT.

INSIST you want to report the crime RIGHT THERE AND THEN, and don't let them put you off. Because they probably will if you let them, Christopher Wray is almost surely under presidential orders to essentially run out the clock on this background investigation (BI) extension.

Thursday Sep. 27, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh committed maybe 100 federal crimes. He lied under oath to Congress about that many times, and everybody witnessed it. Whichever lie he told that a person has specific knowledge is false, is the federal crime to report there in the FBI field office.

And again, you must INSIST on reporting what you know to be a federal crime, based on whatever information you have that is contrary to his lie. Be prepared for the field office agents to try to not take the report, by saying it falls under a BI that a special team of agents is doing and you'd need to report it directly to them. Well, that special BI team of agents are not going to talk to you until after Friday, if then. 

So INSIST. There has been a federal crime committed, and you insist on reporting what you know about it, right then and there.

Stay until you do.

Ask for a photocopy of the statement you sign.

Take the special agent's name. I believe they're required to submit it within 24 hours of receiving the report. Ask to be emailed and mailed a copy of it.

When you leave, immediately send all of the particulars to the Democratic senator of your choice. And to the Washington Post, New York Times, New Yorker, CNN, MSNBC, Guardian, and whatever other media of your choice. Probably the FBI will instruct you not to disclose your report to anybody... "ongoing investigation" and all that. I'd do it anyway and take my chances, because to not will probably be to have accomplished nothing.

If everyone who knows factually about a Kavanaugh lie to Congress does this immediately, we can at least get the reports physically into the FBI somewhere. And Democratic senators, the principled media, and the American public hopefully can successfully demand that the reports be taken into account before a final vote to confirm Kavanaugh. 

I hope this works. We are in a fast-moving constitutional crisis created by a dishonest authoritarian president and his Republican senator co-conspirators. The White House is in the position to make Christopher Wray run out the clock while avoiding any new negative information about Kavanaugh in a sham of a BI. And we need to do everything can to counter this, right NOW.

Thank you.

But I'm a nobody on Twitter. I'm sure there are people here that have a decent following. I'd imagine they could get it out faster than emailing.

If it's been a decade since you were here before, it's not surprising that you were unable to access your original account. If you didn't know, DU was hacked on election day 2016 and a lot of us were shut out after that - including me! I got help from EarlG in accessing my account - which you can do by contacting the admins using the new version of Ask the Administrators: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=ata

Or by contacting EarlG directly. I've been here since 2003 (DU.1) so I wasn't willing to start over, and you probably feel the same way, it's frustrating. Hope that helps! BTW, we may already know each other!

About the hack
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10137748