{"id":32437,"date":"2018-09-21T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32437"},"modified":"2018-09-21T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:07:23","slug":"fbi-probe-would-answer-many-questions-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32437","title":{"rendered":"FBI probe would answer many questions, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32439\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh1.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christine Blasey Ford has leveled an accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; she wants the FBI to examine it thoroughly before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee that is considering whether to recommend Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>As a friend and former colleague of mine has asked on social media:<em>\u00a0One wants an FBI investigation. One doesn&#8217;t want an FBI investigation. Which one would you believe?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ford wants the FBI to examine her allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh doesn&#8217;t want the FBI to look into the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. My friend does pose a fair question.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI took all of three days to conclude an investigation in 1991 when a University of Oklahoma law professor, Anita Hill, accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. She testified before the Judiciary Committee, as did Thomas. The committee recommended Thomas&#8217;s confirmation and the full Senate then confirmed him in a 52-48 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, if the FBI can help determine the veracity of the allegation made against the current high court nominee, why would the person accused of wrongdoing oppose it?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Blasey Ford has leveled an accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; she wants the FBI to examine it thoroughly before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee that is considering whether to recommend Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the high court. As a friend and former colleague of mine has asked on social media:\u00a0One wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI probe would answer many questions, right?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7874,8018,1693,6363,4235],"class_list":["post-32437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-christine-blasey-ford","tag-fbi","tag-scotus","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}