Hey ReTHUGs - Christine Blassey-Ford says hi

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bringing-in-outside-counsel-to-question-ford-was-a-mistake/2018/09/27/2e736d28-c2ad-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

When the prospect of a Senate hearing to consider Christine Blasey Ford’s charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh were first raised, I wrote a column suggesting that the Senate use “outside counsel with experience in sexual harassment and assault” to question witnesses at the hearing. I argued it would make the proceeding more professional, more of a fact-finding hearing, and less of a political sideshow. Senate Republicans seemingly followed this path, bringing in Arizona sex-crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Ford and Kavanaugh.

It was a disaster. Mitchell missed the point and focused most of her questions on petty efforts to assail Ford’s credibility — the extent of Ford’s fear of flying, who paid for her polygraph test, how her statement became public — and never asked Ford about the real issue: what happened to her as a 15-year-old, and what role Kavanaugh had in it.