On July 9th, I received a return phone call from the office of Congresswoman Anna Eshoo after Mr. Kavanaugh had become the nominee. I met with her staff on July 18th and with her on July 20th, describing the assault and discussing my fears about coming forward.
Later, we discussed the possibility of sending a letter to Ranking Member Feinstein, who is one of my state senators, describing what occurred. My understanding is that Representative Eshoo’s office delivered a copy of my letter to Senator Feinstein’s office on July 30th.
The letter included my name, but also a request that it be kept confidential. My hope was that providing the information confidentially would be sufficient to allow the Senate to consider Mr. Kavanaugh’s serious misconduct without having to make myself, my family or anyone’s family vulnerable to the personal attacks and invasions of privacy that we have faced since my name became public.
In a letter dated August 31st, Senator Feinstein wrote that she would not share the letter without my explicit consent, and I appreciated this commitment. Sexual assault victims should be able to decide for themselves when and whether their private experience is made public.
Andy wrote:I’m basing it on the fact that the Police do not (and will never) release the full figures. If the real figures for the number of false accusations were released, it would give genuine victims the impression that they will not be believed. It discourages them from coming forward.I’d be interested to know what you’re basing that on. I’ve not seen many studies that suggest otherwise.
WorKid wrote:Changing subject abruptly. Why did Superman think the best way to maintain his secret identity was to go and work with a load of the country's best investigative journalists?
Diluted Dante wrote:It would have remained confidential within the Senate Judiciary Committee. It didnt need to be published on the front page of every newspaper.
That morning, Ford alerted an associate via email that Whelan had looked at her LinkedIn page, according to the email, which was reviewed by The Post. LinkedIn allows some subscribers to see who views their pages. Ford sent the email about 90 minutes after The Post shared her name with a White House spokesman and hours before her identity was revealed in a story posted on its website.
Kow wrote:Or maybe Superman just isn't the brightest spark.
Little appreciated. Public opinion tends to turn against the direction of policy: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/why-comparisons-between-lbj-and-obama-can-mislead.html. See, e.g., our paper on ACA backlash against House Dems in 2010: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/health-care-vote-effects.pdf. https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1047798616784588800
monkey wrote:Lois: Isn’t it weird that Superman shows up in Metropolis whenever he’s needed? Maybe he lives here and he’s in disguise a lot of the time. If we ran facial analysis on Superman and cross-indexed that with....
Clark: Er this all sounds like bollocks to me Chief.
Perry: Yeah I’m going with Clark on this one. Lois, go cover the dog show.
Yossarian wrote:Nobody is suggesting abandoning the principle of innocent until proven guilty.
She said she witnessed Judge Kavanaugh participating in some of the misconduct, including lining up outside a bedroom where “numerous boys” were “waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.” Ms. Swetnick said she was raped at one of the parties and believed she had been drugged, but did not directly accuse Judge Kavanaugh of raping her.
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