Thursday, October 18, 2018

Here are Some Questions that Should have been Asked

  If the case were still active, and if the FBI were to actually interview Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh, what questions might they ask?
  FBI officers should be adept at asking the right questions, in search of the truth. Contrary to that, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who did question Ford and Kavanaugh, are not expert at asking delving questions. Neither am I, for that matter, but I wonder if I couldn't do better than what the committee did, for I do not remember reading about many such questions as those I am about to pose. Some of these questions I would think were posed, but I would guess many weren't.
  How long had you known each other?
  What kind of interactions did you have?
   How well did you know each other?
   Do you remember any specific interactions? Describe each that you remember?
   Were you ever at any parties together?
   Were you ever at any events -- regardless their nature -- together?
   Did you ever feel any attraction toward each other?
   Did you ever seek to be in each other's company?
   Did any of your friends, Brett Kavanaugh, date Ford?
   Did you ever have reason, Christine Blasey Ford, to dislike Kavanaugh, or to think ill of him, prior to the alleged sexual attack?
   How about after the alleged attack?
   Were you ever biased against him?
   Are you a Democrat?
   Did your politics play a role in your deciding to go public with this?
   Why did you keep this to yourself for so long?
   Why did you decide to go public with it?
   Did anyone contact you, asking you to go public with this?
   Did Dianne Feinstein first contact you, or did you contact her?
   How did you get to the party -- did you drive yourself or come with someone else?
   When you left, did you drive, call a taxi, call someone to come get you, or what?
   When were you invited to the party and who invited you?
   You have suggested you didn't attend parties of this nature, Brett Kavanaugh, would you describe what you mean, what type of parties you didn't you attend?
   Did you ever attend any parties where any sexual contact occurred?
   Did you ever attend any parties where that sexual contact might in anyway at all be considered non-consensual?
   Other than the alleged incidents that have become known in the confirmation process, has anyone at any time in your life ever accused you of sexual impropriety?
   Did everyone invited to the July 1, 1982, party actually show up?
   Were there any women at the party?
   Were there any other parties attended by yourself, PJ Smyth, and Mark Judge?
   Was Leland Ingham Keyser at any party or gathering you ever went to?
   Do you think you could have been the Bart O'Kavanaugh referred to in Mark Judge's memoirs?
   Were there ever any spur-of-the moment parties not mentioned in your calendar?
    I could go on, as questions keep coming to my mind. The point is, the questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee was not adequate. And, the FBI was probably not even allowed to interview Ford and Kavanaugh, that they could have asked such questions. How thorough was the investigation, then? If you do not even interview the principals in an alleged event, is that much of an investigation at all?


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