{"id":32446,"date":"2018-09-22T02:44:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32446"},"modified":"2018-09-22T02:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:44:04","slug":"this-accuser-isnt-looking-for-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32446","title":{"rendered":"This accuser isn&#8217;t looking for publicity"},"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>Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s accusation against Brett Kavanaugh is beginning to sound more believable, at least to me.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has accused Kavanaugh, a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, of sexually assaulting her when the two of them were teenagers 36 years ago. She said Kavanaugh was drunk, he took her into a room, covered her mouth to keep her from screaming and then groped her, seeking to have sex with her.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh denies the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>But the question keeps popping into my noggin: Why would this woman, a university professor, level a charge she knows is false?<\/p>\n<p>She wants the FBI to investigate the case. Does someone with a phony accusation insist on an FBI probe? Ford says she wants a third person to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering whether to recommend Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the nation&#8217;s highest court. Would a bogus accuser subject a third person to insult and possible emotional injury?<\/p>\n<p>I still want to hear from Judge Kavanaugh and Professor Ford. I want them to speak to senators about the accusation that has been leveled against a man who wants to interpret the U.S. Constitution at the highest judicial level in the land.<\/p>\n<p>Something tells me there might be more to this than we know.<\/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&#8217;s accusation against Brett Kavanaugh is beginning to sound more believable, at least to me. Ford has accused Kavanaugh, a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, of sexually assaulting her when the two of them were teenagers 36 years ago. She said Kavanaugh was drunk, he took her into a room, covered her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This accuser isn&#8217;t looking for publicity<\/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":[8],"tags":[7874,8016,6363,4235],"class_list":["post-32446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-christine-ford","tag-scotus","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32446","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=32446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32447,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32446\/revisions\/32447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}