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Blasey Ford facing perjury trap?


Today may be a day to savor.  Senator Chuck Grassley and sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell took heavy criticism in some quarters over the solicitous tone and leisurely pace of the cross-examination of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but it looks as though a perjury trap was being sprung.  Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire explains:


A new letter, released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), states that a former boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford says that he personally witnessed her coaching someone on how to take a polygraph test, despite the fact that she testified under oath that she had never done so.



“The full details of Dr. Ford’s polygraph are particularly important because the Senate Judiciary Committee has received a sworn statement from a longtime boyfriend of Dr. Ford’s, stating that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations,” Grassley wrote.


“During some of the time we were dating, Dr. Ford lived with Monica L. McLean, who I understood to be her life-long best friend,” Ford’s ex-boyfriend wrote in the letter.  ”During that time, it was my understanding that McLean was interviewing for jobs with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office.”


“I witnessed Dr. Ford help McLean prepare for a potential polygraph exam,” the ex-boyfriend said.  ”Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked, and helped McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam.”


“When asked under oath in the hearing whether she’d ever given any tips or advice to someone who was planning on taking a polygraph, Dr. Ford replied, ‘Never,'” Grassley continued.  ”This statement raises specific concerns about the reliability of her polygraph examination results.”


Shannon Bream presents the letter itself, with the name redacted:



 


 



Blasey Ford testified clearly that she “never” helped anyone with a polygraph:




It seems pretty clear to me that Rachel Mitchell knew about this letter and was getting Blasey Ford to go on the record under oath.  My suspicion is that Ford was prepared for many days for her testimony, but her lawyers and handlers did not anticipate this line of questioning, so she winged it.


Combine this with reports that the FBI will complete its re-investigation and may submit its report today, and with reports that Blasey Ford has not been questioned, and the odds rise that the FBI has examined the possible perjury here.


It is a possible indicator of the depth of the doo-doo Blasey Ford stepped into that Glenn Kessler – the so-called fact-checker at the Washington Post – is trying to run interference and failing at it, Sean M. Davis calls him out:






Obviously, the key to taking the perjury trap beyond a he said, she said standoff would be the testimony of the person who allegedly received the coaching.  Kate Prengel of Heavy.com has the goods on her.  Here are the bullet points, but do read the whole thing:


1. She Went to Holton Arms, the Same High School as Ford


2. Ford Allegedly Coached McLean While She Was Interviewing for Jobs with the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office


3. McLean Worked for the Department of Justice for 24 Years, Leaving Just Before Trump Took Office


4. A Man Named Geral Sosbee Says McLean Helped the FBI in a Bizarre Cover-Up


5. McLean Now Works as an Independent Consultant in Washington DC


As a presumed member of the bar, McLean understands the dangers she faces if she is not forthcoming about the coaching.  Her abrupt departure from the DOJ suggests that other issues are on her mind as well.


Just the sort of person that could be squeezed.  Pressuring Blasey Ford to sing about the people who coached her.  And maybe even the politicians who groomed her testimony.


Update: Kimberly Strassel lays out the peril in a series of tweets:











Today may be a day to savor.  Senator Chuck Grassley and sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell took heavy criticism in some quarters over the solicitous tone and leisurely pace of the cross-examination of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but it looks as though a perjury trap was being sprung.  Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire explains:


A new letter, released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), states that a former boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford says that he personally witnessed her coaching someone on how to take a polygraph test, despite the fact that she testified under oath that she had never done so.


“The full details of Dr. Ford’s polygraph are particularly important because the Senate Judiciary Committee has received a sworn statement from a longtime boyfriend of Dr. Ford’s, stating that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations,” Grassley wrote.


“During some of the time we were dating, Dr. Ford lived with Monica L. McLean, who I understood to be her life-long best friend,” Ford’s ex-boyfriend wrote in the letter.  ”During that time, it was my understanding that McLean was interviewing for jobs with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office.”


“I witnessed Dr. Ford help McLean prepare for a potential polygraph exam,” the ex-boyfriend said.  ”Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked, and helped McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam.”


“When asked under oath in the hearing whether she’d ever given any tips or advice to someone who was planning on taking a polygraph, Dr. Ford replied, ‘Never,'” Grassley continued.  ”This statement raises specific concerns about the reliability of her polygraph examination results.”


Shannon Bream presents the letter itself, with the name redacted:



 


 



Blasey Ford testified clearly that she “never” helped anyone with a polygraph:




It seems pretty clear to me that Rachel Mitchell knew about this letter and was getting Blasey Ford to go on the record under oath.  My suspicion is that Ford was prepared for many days for her testimony, but her lawyers and handlers did not anticipate this line of questioning, so she winged it.


Combine this with reports that the FBI will complete its re-investigation and may submit its report today, and with reports that Blasey Ford has not been questioned, and the odds rise that the FBI has examined the possible perjury here.


It is a possible indicator of the depth of the doo-doo Blasey Ford stepped into that Glenn Kessler – the so-called fact-checker at the Washington Post – is trying to run interference and failing at it, Sean M. Davis calls him out:






Obviously, the key to taking the perjury trap beyond a he said, she said standoff would be the testimony of the person who allegedly received the coaching.  Kate Prengel of Heavy.com has the goods on her.  Here are the bullet points, but do read the whole thing:


1. She Went to Holton Arms, the Same High School as Ford


2. Ford Allegedly Coached McLean While She Was Interviewing for Jobs with the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office


3. McLean Worked for the Department of Justice for 24 Years, Leaving Just Before Trump Took Office


4. A Man Named Geral Sosbee Says McLean Helped the FBI in a Bizarre Cover-Up


5. McLean Now Works as an Independent Consultant in Washington DC


As a presumed member of the bar, McLean understands the dangers she faces if she is not forthcoming about the coaching.  Her abrupt departure from the DOJ suggests that other issues are on her mind as well.


Just the sort of person that could be squeezed.  Pressuring Blasey Ford to sing about the people who coached her.  And maybe even the politicians who groomed her testimony.


Update: Kimberly Strassel lays out the peril in a series of tweets:













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Grassley Calls on Ford’s Lawyers to Hand Over Polygraph Material, Cites Her Ex-Boyfriend’s Signed Statement


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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, one of the women who have accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, could have potentially committed perjury last week for saying that she has “never” given tips or advice to someone planning on taking a polygraph test, according to her ex-boyfriend.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) on Tuesday sent a letter to Dr. Ford’s lawyers renewing his request for “all audio or video recordings produced during the course of Mr. Hanafin’s polygraph examination of Dr. Ford as well as all polygraph charts and other data that Mr. Hanafin relied upon in preparing his report.” Grassley said they he made these requests before and after last Thursday’s hearing, but he has yet to receive them.

Ford, a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University in California, has accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly pinning her to a bed, groping her, and trying to stifle her screams at a high school party in the early 1980’s. Kavanaugh denied the allegations, as has his former classmate Mark Judge, who Ford claims was also in the room at the time of the alleged incident. Two other people that Ford alleges were at the party in question, have also denied any knowledge of the party or sexual assault.

“The full details of Dr. Ford’s polygraph are particularly important because the Senate Judiciary Committee has received a sworn statement from a longtime boyfriend of Dr. Ford’s, stating that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations,” Grassley wrote. “When asked under oath in the hearing whether she’d ever given any tips or advice to someone who was planning on taking a polygraph, Dr. Ford replied, ‘Never.'”

In a letter sent to Grassley, which was obtained by Fox News, Ford’s longtime boyfriend said that she never discussed any sexual assault experiences, coached a friend on taking a polygraph test, and often flew without expressing any fear.

“I witnessed Dr. Ford help McLean prepare for a potential polygraph exam. Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked and helped McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam. Dr. Ford was able to help because of her background in psychology,” Ford’s former boyfriend wrote.

Grassley concluded his letter by saying that Ford’s “testimony hinges on evidence to which Dr. Ford has repeatedly referred– some of which has already been provided to a nationally circulated newspaper– but which you have refused to provide to the Senate.”

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United Nations court “orders” U.S. to lift sanctions on Iran


Oh, dear. Whatever shall we do? The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an “order” to the United States saying that we have to drop various “humanitarian sanctions” against Iran immediately. The judges in the Hague have found that certain sanctions affecting medical supplies, food and… airplane parts (?) are all in violation of a friendship treaty we had with Iran dating back to the fifties, well before the Islamic revolution there. (Times of India)

The UN’s top court ordered the United States on Wednesday to suspend sanctions on “humanitarian” goods for Iran in a stunning setback for US President Donald Trump.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down the bombshell judgement after Iran asked it to halt economic measures that Trump reimposed after pulling out of a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran.

Judges in The Hague unanimously ruled that the sanctions on some goods breached a 1955 “friendship treaty” between Iran and the US that predates Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

The ICJ has long claimed the power to issue such orders to member nations and they hand out rulings like this on a semi-regular basis. Such decrees are defined as being “binding” and there is no process for appealing one of their rulings. But as the Times of India points out, they have absolutely no mechanism to enforce their decrees.

Particularly given Donald Trump’s attitude towards the U.N. and other global organizations when it comes to American sovereignty, what do you think the odds are that he’s going to sheepishly turn around and say, oops! My bad. I guess we’ll just cancel the sanctions now? Given the current state of relations between the United States and the UN, it’s honestly something of a miracle that we haven’t kicked them out of Turtle Bay over unpaid bills and converted their headquarters into a casino resort by now.

Also worth noting is that the ICJ is basing their ruling on a treaty we had with a government that hasn’t existed for forty years. We haven’t even had official diplomatic relations with them since around 1980 and you expect us to honor a treaty we made under Eisenhower with the government the Mullahs overthrew? Besides, sanctions are the one tool we have in our kit which at least has a chance of forcing bad actors to behave in a more civilized fashion without resorting to military force. I think the judges in the Hague would be even less happy if we were settling our differences with cruise missiles.

I’m looking forward to the official White House response, or perhaps something from Nikki Haley. While they’ll probably be a bit more polite, it should really include something about sticking the court’s decree where the sun doesn’t shine.

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Huge Development: Feinstein Moves To Seal FBI Investigation as Case Collapses


For the past several weeks, Democrats and their liberal media allies have publicly excoriated Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over a number of uncorroborated allegations and unverifiable rumors of criminal wrongdoing, essentially convicting and sentencing him to political death in the court of public opinion.

Obviously intent on derailing Kavanaugh’s nomination by creating a massive public outcry and rendering him toxic to moderate Republicans, Democrats had no problems whatsoever in publicly discussing every sordid detail of the allegations and smears hurled at the previously spotless nominee.

Yet in spite of the blatant attempts to assassinate his character and destroy him politically, Kavanaugh managed to clear the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, with the condition that the FBI open a limited investigation into the several allegations lodged against him.

All indications thus far from that investigation suggest that nothing new will be found to stop Kavanaugh from being confirmed, and now Democrats suddenly want to ensure that any new information discovered about Kavanaugh is kept secret so only members of the Senate and select staffers will be permitted to see what the FBI produces after concluding the probe.

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CNN reporter Elizabeth Landers noted as much in a tweet quoting committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein. Landers tweeted, “(Feinstein) indicates that the FBI report on Kavanaugh should NOT be made public: ‘It would seem to me that if people are going to be identified this ought to be held very close and not. I think the investigation ought to be closely held,’ (Feinstein) reiterated.

Funny, Feinstein didn’t seem all that concerned about keeping people’s identities “closely held” when the letter sent to her from Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford was leaked to the media, nor did she exhibit any such concern when she publicly spoke about some of the other individuals named by Ford, or the other accusers who have popped out of the woodwork in Ford’s wake.

A CNN report noted that Feinstein has demanded the FBI inform her of everyone the agency is talking to as part of its probe into the Kavanaugh allegations, and said, “And of course, it would be given to us on a classified basis but at least we would know.”

Asked how the American public will have any confidence in the ultimate conclusions reached by the Senate following such a secret report from the FBI, Feinstein replied, “Well, let’s see … I can’t say because I don’t know what the investigation will say.”

Should the FBI report on the allegations against Kavanaugh be made public?

Nor is Feinstein alone, as an update to that same CNN article reported that the California senator was joined in her call for the results of the FBI probe to remain secret by Democrat Delaware Sen. Chris Coons.

“I think that the work product of the FBI should be kept confidential to the Senate, but all senators should be able to review it,” Coons told reporters.

“That’s typically what’s the case in any background investigation, the FBI delivers investigatory work — facts, not conclusions — and then senators review those files. But those are committee confidential files typically,” he added.

Also “typical” would be for the Senate Judiciary Committee to quietly investigate allegations against a nominee by itself, without dumping all of the disgusting details into public view via a coordinated media campaign. But there isn’t much in Washington D.C. these days that is “typical” anymore.

Further updates to that CNN article indicated that the dispute over whether the FBI probe into the Kavanaugh allegations had crossed the aisle to the Republican side as well, as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called for the final report to be made public in its entirety while Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the report would be handled in the usual manner, distributed to senators so only they and select staff members can read it.

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Democrats like Feinstein and Coons had no problem making all of the details of the allegations against Kavanaugh public when they thought doing so would succeed in derailing his nomination, but now that it looks like Kavanaugh will survive the smears and be confirmed to the Supreme Court, they want to keep any exonerating information secret from the public.

If that doesn’t add to the damning evidence suggesting this whole charade was intended solely to scuttle Kavanaugh’s nomination, rather than get to the truth of the allegations against him, then seemingly nothing else will.

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Rape Charges Against 4 California Dentists Dismissed After Video Contradicts Woman’s Story


Women never lie and are never mistaken.

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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Four dentists from California, including three brothers, who faced rape charges for the alleged assault of a woman at the Wynn Las Vegas had all charges dismissed in court Monday.

Charged were Ali Badkoobehi and brothers Poria Edalat, Saman Edalat and Sina Edalat. The charges included sex assault, conspiracy to commit sex assault and first-degree kidnapping for the late July incident.

Prosecutors dropped all charges during a very brief hearing today before Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Eric Goodman.

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