SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
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THIS ARTICLE GIVES MORE DETAIL AND SOME UPDATING TO THE INFORMATION FROM WEDNESDAY AND FOLLOWING. I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THE FBI IS REALLY GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO DO BY THE SENATE. THE STORY SAYS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WILL CONTROL THAT, AND IT SOUNDS JUST ABOUT LIKE THE SENATE’S PLAN. THE PRESIDENT HOWEVER, GAVE A MORE OPEN-ENDED PERMISSION TO THE FBI. AFTER THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT, THOUGH, WHITE HOUSE SECURITY BIGWIGS MODIFIED IT A BIT, BUT IN A WAY THAT WILL LIKELY PREVENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIM FROM BEING UNCOVERED. MEANWHILE, I’M JUST WATCHING FOR NEW INFORMATION AND HOPING FOR THE BEST FOR THE NATIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. I PERSONALLY WANT CHANGES AND LIMITATIONS ON WHAT THE SUPREME COURT IS ALLOWED TO DO, ANYWAY, SO THE PRESENCE OF A RIGHTWING NUT JOB WILL NOT NECESSARILY CAUSE PAIN AND HAVOC IN THE COUNTRY.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-limits-scope-fbi-s-investigation-allegations-against-brett-n915061
Limits to FBI's Kavanaugh investigation have not changed, despite Trump's comments
Trump’s Saturday night tweet has not changed the limits imposed by the White House counsel’s office on the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation, sources say.
by Ken Dilanian, Geoff Bennett and Kristen Welker / Sep.29.2018 / 4:33 PM EDT / Updated Sep.30.2018 / 12:21 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — The FBI has received no new instructions from the White House about how to proceed with its weeklong investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a senior U.S. official and another source familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
According to the sources, the president’s Saturday night tweet saying he wants the FBI to interview whoever agents deem appropriate has not changed the limits imposed by the White House counsel’s office on the FBI investigation — including a specific witness list that does not include Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school.
Also not on the list, the sources say, are former classmates who have contradicted Kavanaugh’s account of his college alcohol consumption, instead describing him as a frequent, heavy drinker. The FBI is also not authorized to interview high school classmates who could shed light on what some people have called untruths in Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony about alleged sexual references in his high school yearbook.
The sources said nothing would preclude the FBI from asking Kavanaugh's high school friend Mark Judge, who is on the witness list, about Swetnick’s allegations, but the sources stressed that this is not a top priority.
Separately, a White House official made clear that the White House is the client in this process. This is not an FBI criminal investigation — it is a background investigation in which the FBI is acting on behalf of the White House. Procedurally, the White House does not allow the FBI to investigate as it sees fit, the official acknowledged; the White House sets the parameters.
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Trump announced on Twitter late Saturday that the White House had placed no limitation on the FBI's ability to investigate the allegations against Kavanaugh.
"I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion," Trump tweeted in response to an NBC News report citing multiple people familiar with the process who said the White House was limiting the scope of the reopened background investigation of Kavanaugh.
While the FBI will examine the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, the bureau had not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s, those people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
A member of Ford’s legal team told NBC News on Sunday that neither Ford nor her lawyers have been contacted by the FBI since Trump ordered a supplemental FBI background investigation Friday.
A White House official had confirmed earlier Saturday that Swetnick's claims would not be pursued as part of the reopened background investigation into Kavanaugh. Trump described that as incorrect in a tweet late Saturday. The Wall Street Journal had also reported that Swetnick's allegations would not be investigated.
Trump said the FBI had "free rein" in the investigation.
"They’re going to do whatever they have to do," he said. "Whatever it is they do, they’ll be doing—things that we never even thought of. And hopefully at the conclusion everything will be fine."
The New York Times reported Saturday night, after Trump’s tweet, that the White House has authorized the FBI to interview four witnesses: Judge; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of Ford’s whom she said attended the party but was not told of the assault; P.J. Smyth, another party guest; and Ramirez, the Yale accuser.
Ford said in Senate testimony Thursday that she was "100 percent" certain that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. Ramirez alleged that he exposed himself to her when there were students at Yale. Kavanaugh has staunchly denied allegations from Ford, Ramirez and Swetnick.
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Instead of investigating Swetnick's claims, the White House counsel’s office has given the FBI a list of witnesses they are permitted to interview, according to several people who discussed the parameters on the condition of anonymity. They characterized the White House instructions as a significant constraint on the FBI investigation and caution that such a limited scope, while not unusual in normal circumstances, may make it difficult to pursue additional leads in a case in which a Supreme Court nominee has been accused of sexual assault.
The limited scope seems to be at odds with what some members of the Senate judiciary seemed to expect when they agreed to give the FBI as much as a week to investigate allegations against Kavanaugh, a federal judge who grew up in the Washington DC area and attended an elite all-boys high school before going on to Yale.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the FBI has "free rein" in the investigation. "They’re going to do whatever they have to do," he said. "Whatever it is they do, they’ll be doing — things that we never even thought of. And hopefully at the conclusion everything will be fine."
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The president also said he thinks Flake's role in delaying the vote is fine. "Actually this could be a blessing in disguise," Trump continued. "Because having the FBI go out, do a thorough investigation, whether its three days or seven days, I think it’s going to be less than a week. But having them do a thorough investigation, I actually think will be a blessing in disguise. It’ll be a good thing."
"I don't need a backup plan," Trump said, adding that he thinks Kavanaugh is "going to be fine."
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Saturday that he supports the week-long scope of the investigation. “The FBI works at the direction of the White House in investigating the background of an administration nominee like Judge Kavanaugh," he told MSNBC's Chris Hayes at Global Citizen Festival in New York. "So it’s the White House Counsel or the president who says, ‘This is the scope of the further investigation.'"
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Sen. Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, who led an 11th hour move in the Senate committee for an FBI inquiry, said he thought the bureau would decide how to carry it out. His Democratic colleague Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said he expected the FBI probe to include "adequate staffing," support from the committee for "rapid immunity and subpoena decisions as needed, plus the ability to investigate claims of a "penchant for drunkenness and inappropriate treatment of women, particularly where specifically related to incidents under investigation."
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An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment, referring questions to the White House.
A White House official did not specifically dispute limitations on the scope of the FBI's investigation but denied the White House was “micromanaging” the inquiry.
White House spokesman Raj Shah said that "the scope and duration has been set by the Senate. The White House is letting the FBI agents do what they are trained to do.”
The Senate has only said that supplemental FBI background investigation “be limited to current credible allegations against the nominee and must be completed no later than one week from today.”
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White House counsel Don McGahn, who has shepherded Kavanaugh's nomination since President Trump chose him for the high court on July 9, is taking the lead for the White House in dealing with the FBI on the investigation, those involved in the process told NBC News.
A U.S. official briefed on the matter said its not unusual for the White House to set the parameters of an FBI background check for a presidential nominee. The FBI had no choice but to agree to these terms, the sources told NBC News, because it is conducting the background investigation on behalf of the White House.
If the FBI learns of others who can corroborate what the existing witnesses are saying, it is not clear whether agents will be able to contact them under the terms laid out by the White House, the two sources briefed on the matter said.
Some areas are off limits, the sources said.
Investigators plan to meet with Mark Judge, a high school classmate and friend of Kavanaugh's whom Ford named as a witness and participant to her alleged assault.
Two sources familiar with the investigation said the FBI will also not be able to examine why Kavanaugh’s account of his drinking at Yale University differs from those of some former classmates, who have said he was known as a heavy drinker. Those details may be pertinent to investigating claims from Ramirez who described an alleged incident of sexual misconduct she said occurred while Kavanaugh was inebriated. Ramirez's lawyer said Saturday that she had been contacted by the FBI and would cooperate.
The conditions under which the FBI's reopened background check are occurring appears to differ from the one envisioned by Flake, who used his leverage as a swing vote to pressure the Trump administration to order the FBI investigation.
Flake said Friday he thought the FBI should decide the scope of the investigation.
“They’ll have to decide — the FBI you know, how far that goes,” he told reporters. “This is limited in time and scope and I think that it's appropriate when it's a lifetime appointment and allegations this serious and we ought to let people know that we're serious about it.”
An administration official familiar with the process clarified, after the publication of this story, that while investigators may not be interviewing Swetnick herself, that doesn't preclude them from asking other witness about the allegations she has made.
HURRICANES APPROACHING
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Hurricane Rosa expected to increase California surf as Kirk drenches Caribbean
PHOTOGRAPH -- This satellite image shows Hurricane Rosa on Thu., Sept. 28, 2018. NOAA
LOS ANGELES — Hurricane Rosa weakened slightly off Mexico's Pacific Coast on Friday and is expected to increase surf and rip currents along the Southern California coast this weekend. Surf from 6 to 10 feet is possible on Los Angeles and Ventura County beaches as early as Saturday night or Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Orange County may see seas up to 8 feet while surf could reach 5 feet along San Diego County.
Rosa, which is now Category 3 storm, had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and was located 625 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California as of Friday evening. It was moving west at 6 mph.
It is expected to become a tropical storm by late Sunday as it heads northeast toward the Baja California peninsula. The hurricane center said there were no coastal watches or warnings in effect, but swells generated by Rosa were expected to cause dangerous surf and rip current conditions along portions of southwestern Mexico, the peninsula and southern California.
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This image shows the projected path of Hurricane Rosa on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Remnants of the Rosa are expected to hit Arizona on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, high winds and the threat of localized flooding, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters say up to 4 inches could fall in some areas through Wednesday, including Flagstaff, Payson, Prescott and the Grand Canyon's South Rim. The North Rim could see up to 6 inches.
Forecasters say metro Phoenix, Yuma, and eastern and western Arizona could see widespread rain up to a couple of inches. Normally dry washes could become flooded, as well as low-lying roadways.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Kirk caused power outages and heavy flooding across the eastern Caribbean and forced flight cancellations, officials said Friday. Authorities in Barbados said they helped rescue several people from a flooded home and schools were cancelled in the nearby islands of St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Meteorologists said that up to 10 inches of rain fell in some parts of Martinique, Dominica and Barbados as they warned of flash floods and mudslides. The hurricane center also warned of heavy rains for St. Croix and Puerto Rico, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria last year and is still recovering from the storm.
Kirk had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was located about 270 miles south-southeast of Puerto Rico. It was moving west at 14 mph. The storm is expected to become a tropical depression Friday night and degenerate into a low pressure trough by late Saturday.
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THESE ARE VERY INTERESTING. MOST OF THESE PICTURES DO SHOW BUILDINGS THAT ARE OLD AND POORLY KEPT, CRACKED SIDEWALKS, ETC. THE CONCLUSION ON ONE CAPTION WAS THAT MOST OF THE CITIES WHICH HAD A HIGH CRIME RATE ALSO HAD A HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. NOT ALL CRIME IS COMMITTED BY HARDENED CRIMINALS, AND OTHERWISE NORMAL PEOPLE CAN REACT TO LIFE PRESSURES SUCH AS ECONOMIC INSECURITY WITH ASSAULTS AND THEFTS.
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THIS VIDEO HAS GOOD VISUALS AND A GRISLY DESCRIPTION OF THE WOUNDS BY A BYSTANDER. THE SHARK IS ESTIMATED AT 11 FEET LONG. THAT’S A LOT OF SHARK!
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Shark attack off beach in North San Diego
MICHAEL LEWIS’ BOOK IS CALLED “THE FIFTH RISK.” HE SAYS THAT IT CONCERNS THE RISKS THAT WE DON’T EXPECT. HE SPEAKS OF TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION WHO HAVE USUALLY BEEN SCOFFERS AT THE VALUE OF PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFINGS, GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND “REGULATIONS.” ALL THAT SORT OF REPUBLICAN CARES ABOUT IS WHAT THE PROFITS AND THE COSTS OF DOING BUSINESS ARE, AND THE “REGULATIONS” AS THEY LIMIT BUSINESS FREEDOMS TO OPERATE BASED PURELY ON PROFIT. THEY CARE NOTHING FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, BUT FOR THEIR UPPER 10% OR SO. HIS BOOK IS APPARENTLY GOING TO BE ON THIS. HE SPECIFICALLY TALKS HERE ABOUT HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SO FAR HAS IGNORED HUMAN – AND NATIONAL – CONSEQUENCES. IF I DIDN’T HAVE A LIMITED BUDGET, I WOULD BUY THIS BOOK; AS THINGS ARE, THOUGH, I WILL WAIT UNTIL THE PUBLIC LIBRARY BUYS IT. SO, HERE IS THE WEBSITE. –
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THE ISLAND MAY NEVER RECOVER – “THE CHALLENGE FOR THE ISLAND IS WHETHER IT CAN HARNESS THE GROWTH THAT COMES WITH AN EXPECTED $9 BILLION IN RECOVERY SPENDING IN 2018 AND 2019. "IF PUERTO RICO DOESN'T EXPERIENCE STRONG GROWTH IN FISCAL 2019, IT NEVER WILL," SAID SETSER.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-by-the-numbers-cbsn-originals/
By PETER S. GREEN CBS NEWS September 21, 2018, 9:45 PM
Puerto Rico's grim prognosis: The island may never recover
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A year after Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico, leaving some 2,975 people dead and knocking the economy on its back, it is becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. territory may never fully recover from the storm.
Puerto Rico was already insolvent before the 2017 storm, with creditors and the island's government deep in negotiations about how to jumpstart the economy or strip it bare to pay off $70 billion owed to bondholders. And the island's government owes another $50 billion it doesn't have to cover current and future pensions. Even before Maria, half a million people had left Puerto Rico and its economy had been steadily shrinking since 2005. After the hurricane, there's even less to work with.
While power and water have finally been restored to more than 99 percent of the island's remaining 3.2 million residents, the economy is moribund. Economic output is projected to fall 13.3 percent this year, manufacturing jobs are drying up, tax receipts are down, small businesses are shuttering, and the reconstruction boom that follows many natural disasters is stymied by the slow pace of federal aid and the fact that most Puerto Ricans had little savings or insurance before the storm. Only 15 percent had homeowners insurance, and only 1 in 3 residents has a bank account.
"I am not hugely optimistic," says Brad Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, who has written extensively on Puerto Rico. The challenge for the island is whether it can harness the growth that comes with an expected $9 billion in recovery spending in 2018 and 2019. "If Puerto Rico doesn't experience strong growth in fiscal 2019, it never will," said Setser.
Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, blames what he calls the island's status as a "colony" of the united States. He wrote to President Trump this week urging the U.S. to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. "The biggest impediment for Puerto Rico's full and prosperous recovery: the inequalities Puerto Rico faces as the oldest, most populous colony in the world," Rosselló wrote.
Granting statehood, however, would be a multi-year process facing daunting political odds. In the meantime, Puerto Rico's economy is in a tailspin.
How hard is life in Puerto Rico? A fiscal plan published by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in June outlines many of the challenges. Here's a look at the numbers:
Hurricane Maria caused approximately $80 billion in damage.
45,000 homes are still waiting for government aid to fix their roofs.
Over 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, according to the agency that oversees Puerto Rico's finances.
Over 40 percent of Puerto Ricans depend on Medicaid for health care.
Some 200,000 residents have left Puerto Rico since the storm.
Another 10 percent of the population is projected to leave in the next five years to seek a better life elsewhere.
The island owes more than $70 billion to creditors from a recession that began years before Maria.
The government's pension fund is short $50 billion.
8,000 small businesses, about 10 percent of the total, remain closed in the wake of Maria.
Tax incentives that had helped turn Puerto Rico into a low-cost manufacturing center expired in 2006, slicing manufacturing jobs by 35 percent.
The number of tourists visiting Puerto Rico dropped 52 percent in the key winter months, compared to the year before Hurricane Maria, according to the island's tourism authority.
The median FEMA grant made to Puerto Rican homeowners after Maria was $1,800, compared with $9,127 paid to those affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Many of those who applied for aid were denied, often because they were unable to prove they own their home.
About 245 of the island's 1,100 public schools have closed. Some were damaged or demolished by the storm, but many others shuttered because teachers and students have fled the island, with about 42,000 school children leaving Puerto Rico as their families seek a better life elsewhere.
Puerto Rico: A year of reporting on Hurricane Maria
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SANDERS' SAY ON THE FBI PROBE
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POLITICS 09/29/2018 10:59 pm ET Updated 23 hours ago
Bernie Sanders: FBI Must Determine If Kavanaugh Told The Truth Under Oath
“Lying to Congress is a federal crime,” senator notes.
By Mary Papenfuss
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has called on Judiciary Committee head Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to direct the FBI to determine if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was truthful under oath in his testimony before the panel.
“Lying to Congress is a federal crime,” Sanders noted in a tweet that included a copy of a letter he sent to Grassley on Friday. “Kavanaugh’s truthfulness with the Senate goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court.”
A determination of perjury in any statement in Kavanaugh’s testimony would threaten his confirmation.
The FBI was given a week to investigate allegations against Kavanaugh as part of a deal forged Friday by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and committee Republicans.
“In order for the FBI investigation regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to be complete, it is imperative the bureau must not only look into the accusations made by Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, it should also examine the veracity of his testimony before the Judiciary Committee,” Sanders wrote.
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The FBI must examine the veracity of Kavanaugh’s statements under oath in addition to the sexual assault allegations against him. Kavanaugh's truthfulness with the Senate goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court.
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Several statements that Kavanaugh made Thursday were challenged after he defended himself under oath against Blasey’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her. She testified that he pinned her to a bed, tried to remove her clothing and placed his hand over her mouth when she tried to yell at a house party when they were both in high school.
Kavanaugh testified three times Thursday that Blasey’s friend Leland Keyser “refuted” Blasey’s claim “under penalty of felony.” While Keyser doesn’t recall the party where the attack allegedly occurred, she did “not refute Dr. Ford’s account, and ... she believes Dr. Ford’s account,” her attorney wrote in a letter sent Friday to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates have contradicted his characterization of his drinking in high school and college as moderate and that he never blacked out. Classmates said he was a heavy drinker and sometimes a belligerent, drunk. Blasey said that both Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, who she said was in the room when the alleged assault against her occurred, were “stumbling drunk.”
Judge has written in his memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, that he and his friends were determined to drink 100 kegs of beer their senior year at Georgetown prep. Kavanaugh’s bio in the senior yearbook notes that he was a member of the “Keg City Club (treasurer) — 100 Kegs or Bust.”
Kavanaugh also testified that it was legal to drink as a senior when he attended Georgetown Prep, which is located in suburban Maryland. It wasn’t. The drinking age in Maryland was raised from 18 to 21 in 1982 when Kavanaugh was 17.
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Kavanaugh repeatedly told the committee he never drank to the point where he didn’t remember something. He also denied ever becoming aggressive when he drinks. There have been many reports from Kavanaugh's high school, college and law school classmates that contradict this. (7/x)
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Kavanaugh also denied being in the same “social circles” as Blasey, indicating it was unlikely they’d be at the same party. Yet his calendar marks several get-togethers with a friend nicknamed “Squi” — whom Kavanaugh identified as Chris Garett — who was going out with Ford at the time, she testified.
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Kavanaugh also testified he “never attended a gathering like the one” described by Blasey, but his own calendar and Judge appear to contradict that.
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Kavanaugh claimed that he and Dr. Ford “did not travel in the same social circles.” Dr. Ford said she dated Chris Garrett, referenced as a friend in his yearbook. In fact she testified Garrett introduced her to Kavanaugh. (9/x)
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Kavanaugh claimed he didn't drink on weeknights but an entry on his calendar for Thursday July 1 states, “Go to Timmy’s for Skis w/ Judge, Tom, Pj, Bernie, Squi.” Kavanaugh clarified to Sen. Booker that “Skis” referred to beer. Was Kavanaugh's original statement truthful? (10/10)
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Kavanaugh’s insistence that words he used in his bio in his senior yearbook — “boofing,” “Devil’s Triangle,” and “Renate Alumnius” were relatively innocent have been widely contradicted. While he said Devil’s Triangle was a drinking game, for example, it’s also used as a term for a sexual threesome.
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Sanders also lists several questionable statements under oath by Kavanaugh during his initial confirmation hearings earlier this month.
It’s unclear how much freedom the FBI will have in its investigation to determine Kavanaugh’s veracity under oath.
NBC reported Saturday that the bureau has been given a specific list of witnesses that can be questioned, and that contradictory information about his drinking at Yale will not be probed, according to sources. Agents will also not be allowed to investigate claims by Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at parties during high school, NBC reported.
But President Donald Trump insisted Saturday that the FBI has “free rein” to follow any leads.
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THIS WAS NOT ON THE LIST OF THINGS THAT THE SENATE WANTED TO AUTHORIZE THE FBI TO DO, BUT I DO HOPE THEY WILL FOLLOW THROUGH ON SOMETHING AS OBVIOUS AS LYING, THOUGH. THEY OUGHT TO INVESTIGATE HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR ALCOHOL, SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, THE ABUSE OF ANY OTHER DRUG OR GENERAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES SUCH AS BIPOLAR DISORDER, ASSAULTS, DRUNK DRIVING, WIFE OR FAMILY ABUSE, THAT CASE IN MARYLAND THAT SUPPOSEDLY TOOK PLACE AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE WHEN HE SHOVED A WOMAN UP AGAINST THE WALL AND BEHAVED SEXUALLY TO HER (THAT WAS RECOUNTED IN AN ANONYMOUS LETTER), AND ANY OTHER DANGEROUS THINGS.
I WOULD EVEN SAY THAT THE SENATE COULD MANDATE THAT HE RECEIVE A THOROUGH MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION WITH A PROFESSIONAL. CONFESSING SINS TO A PRIEST ISN’T THE SAME THING. THEY SHOULD LOOK ON HIS COMPUTER FOR THREATS, LOVE TALK TO SOME OTHER PERSON THAN HIS WIFE, HOMOSEXUALITY OR PEDOPHILIA WEBSITES/ACTIVITY, SERIOUS PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND INSTABILITY, GAMBLING, VERBAL THREATS, AND POSSIBLY EVEN PSYCHOPATHY. MANY THINGS CAN GO WRONG WITH THE HUMAN MIND. I’M SURE THAT, AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS TOGETHER, HIS WILL COULD TELL WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM AND HOW DANGEROUS HE IS. I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE PERSON I SAW THURSDAY WAS DARNED NEAR THE STAGE OF MAKING AN ASSAULT, AND BECAUSE WHEN HE ASSAULTED DR. FORD (AS I FEEL SURE HE DID) THAT WASN’T NORMAL SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AT ALL.
I WILL SWEAR TO JUST ONE THING AFTER WATCHING HIS PERFORMANCE ON THURSDAY -- HE IS SURELY MENTALLY DISTURBED IN SOME WAY. ALWAYS, WHEN PEOPLE DRINK VERY HEAVILY, THEY ARE COVERING UP OTHER DISTURBANCE. ABOVE ALL, THEY DRINK TO “FEEL GOOD,” OR TO “FORGET,” OR UNFORTUNATELY TO “BE ACCEPTED” BY THE PRIVILEGED GROUP. IF THEY HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP WITH THE PHILOSOPHY THAT THERE ARE “WINNERS AND LOSERS,” AS MY SECOND HUSBAND SAID TO ME, THERE’S NO ROOM FOR PEACE OF MIND AND CONTENTMENT IN THAT VIEW OF LIFE.
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POLITICS 09/29/2018 10:59 pm ET Updated 23 hours ago
Bernie Sanders: FBI Must Determine If Kavanaugh Told The Truth Under Oath
“Lying to Congress is a federal crime,” senator notes.
By Mary Papenfuss
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has called on Judiciary Committee head Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to direct the FBI to determine if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was truthful under oath in his testimony before the panel.
“Lying to Congress is a federal crime,” Sanders noted in a tweet that included a copy of a letter he sent to Grassley on Friday. “Kavanaugh’s truthfulness with the Senate goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court.”
A determination of perjury in any statement in Kavanaugh’s testimony would threaten his confirmation.
The FBI was given a week to investigate allegations against Kavanaugh as part of a deal forged Friday by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and committee Republicans.
“In order for the FBI investigation regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to be complete, it is imperative the bureau must not only look into the accusations made by Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, it should also examine the veracity of his testimony before the Judiciary Committee,” Sanders wrote.
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Lying to Congress is a federal crime.
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Several statements that Kavanaugh made Thursday were challenged after he defended himself under oath against Blasey’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her. She testified that he pinned her to a bed, tried to remove her clothing and placed his hand over her mouth when she tried to yell at a house party when they were both in high school.
Kavanaugh testified three times Thursday that Blasey’s friend Leland Keyser “refuted” Blasey’s claim “under penalty of felony.” While Keyser doesn’t recall the party where the attack allegedly occurred, she did “not refute Dr. Ford’s account, and ... she believes Dr. Ford’s account,” her attorney wrote in a letter sent Friday to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates have contradicted his characterization of his drinking in high school and college as moderate and that he never blacked out. Classmates said he was a heavy drinker and sometimes a belligerent, drunk. Blasey said that both Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, who she said was in the room when the alleged assault against her occurred, were “stumbling drunk.”
Judge has written in his memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, that he and his friends were determined to drink 100 kegs of beer their senior year at Georgetown prep. Kavanaugh’s bio in the senior yearbook notes that he was a member of the “Keg City Club (treasurer) — 100 Kegs or Bust.”
Kavanaugh also testified that it was legal to drink as a senior when he attended Georgetown Prep, which is located in suburban Maryland. It wasn’t. The drinking age in Maryland was raised from 18 to 21 in 1982 when Kavanaugh was 17.
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Kavanaugh repeatedly told the committee he never drank to the point where he didn’t remember something. He also denied ever becoming aggressive when he drinks. There have been many reports from Kavanaugh's high school, college and law school classmates that contradict this. (7/x)
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Kavanaugh also denied being in the same “social circles” as Blasey, indicating it was unlikely they’d be at the same party. Yet his calendar marks several get-togethers with a friend nicknamed “Squi” — whom Kavanaugh identified as Chris Garett — who was going out with Ford at the time, she testified.
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Kavanaugh also testified he “never attended a gathering like the one” described by Blasey, but his own calendar and Judge appear to contradict that.
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Kavanaugh claimed that he and Dr. Ford “did not travel in the same social circles.” Dr. Ford said she dated Chris Garrett, referenced as a friend in his yearbook. In fact she testified Garrett introduced her to Kavanaugh. (9/x)
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Kavanaugh claimed he didn't drink on weeknights but an entry on his calendar for Thursday July 1 states, “Go to Timmy’s for Skis w/ Judge, Tom, Pj, Bernie, Squi.” Kavanaugh clarified to Sen. Booker that “Skis” referred to beer. Was Kavanaugh's original statement truthful? (10/10)
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Kavanaugh’s insistence that words he used in his bio in his senior yearbook — “boofing,” “Devil’s Triangle,” and “Renate Alumnius” were relatively innocent have been widely contradicted. While he said Devil’s Triangle was a drinking game, for example, it’s also used as a term for a sexual threesome.
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Sanders also lists several questionable statements under oath by Kavanaugh during his initial confirmation hearings earlier this month.
It’s unclear how much freedom the FBI will have in its investigation to determine Kavanaugh’s veracity under oath.
NBC reported Saturday that the bureau has been given a specific list of witnesses that can be questioned, and that contradictory information about his drinking at Yale will not be probed, according to sources. Agents will also not be allowed to investigate claims by Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at parties during high school, NBC reported.
But President Donald Trump insisted Saturday that the FBI has “free rein” to follow any leads.
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Psychopathy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.[1] It is sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy Different conceptions of psychopathy have been used throughout history that are only partly overlapping and may sometimes be contradictory.[2]
Hervey M. Cleckley, an American psychiatrist, influenced the initial diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality reaction/disturbance in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), as did American psychologist George E. Partridge.[3] The DSM and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) subsequently introduced the diagnoses of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and dissocial personality disorder (DPD) respectively, stating that these diagnoses have been referred to (or include what is referred to) as psychopathy or sociopathy. The creation of ASPD and DPD was driven by the fact that many of the classic traits of psychopathy were impossible to measure objectively.[2][4][5][6][7] Canadian psychologist Robert D. Hare later repopularized the construct of psychopathy in criminology with his Psychopathy Checklist.[2][5][8][9]
Although no psychiatric or psychological organization has sanctioned a diagnosis titled "psychopathy", assessments of psychopathic characteristics are widely used in criminal justice settings in some nations and may have important consequences for individuals. The study of psychopathy is an active field of research, and the term is also used by the general public, popular press, and in fictional portrayals.[9][10] While the term is often employed in common usage along with "crazy", "insane", and "mentally ill", there is a distinction between those with psychosis and psychopathy.[11]
SOMETHING FUN HAPPENED A FEW DAYS AGO IN BRITAIN.
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Man takes his horse into Bilston pub
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PHOTOGRAPH -- The long-faced customer was filmed inside the pub in Bilston on Friday KERRY ASHFIELD
It sounds like the opening of a joke, but it was a reality for pubgoers in the West Midlands as this horse found its way into a local Wetherspoons.
The horse was taken into the Sir Henry Newbolt in Bilston on Friday, as customers enjoyed an afternoon drink.
A video posted on Facebook by Kerry Ashfield has since been shared thousands of times.
'It's an 'oss'
During the clip the horse can be seen inside the pub as his owner is asked by a member of staff to "take the horse out".
And in Black Country dialect, another staff member can be heard saying "it's an 'oss [horse] in the pub, take it out".
Ms Ashfield, 40, said: "He [the owner] drinks in there and he just came in with his horse.
"It's not something you see every day, it was just really funny, everybody was trying to film it."
The pub declined to comment. The BBC has contacted J.D. Wetherspoon for comment.
HERE IS THAT VIDEO:
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