John McCormack
| “On Thursday, the New York Times published a report on the three-year-old battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court that attempts to cast a new cloud of suspicion over Justice Kavanaugh. “The Times’ Kate Kelly reported that, in a letter to Democratic senators dated June 30, 2021, the FBI said that it had received 4,500 tips on a tip-line set up during a supplemental background investigation of Kavanaugh, and that the most ‘relevant’ of the tips were referred to the Office of White House Counsel, the entity that had requested the supplemental background investigation… “But the Times’ report leaves out three key details that would have helped both to clear the air and to clear Kavanaugh’s name: (1) The FBI’s supplemental investigation was always supposed to be limited in time and scope; (2) a summary of all the tips the FBI received was available to all 100 U.S. senators; and (3) we have good reason to believe that none of the supposedly “compelling leads” were actually compelling at all… “Mike Davis, who served as chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Kavanaugh hearings, tells National Review that there was a summary of all 4,500 tips in the FBI’s report, which was available to all 100 U.S. senators. “’They printed out the entire tip-line summary,’ says Davis. ‘Every senator had full access to read those things if they wanted to.’ “Davis makes a crucial point about Senate Democrats now expressing outrage: ‘If there was anything that caught their attention, they could have flagged it for further investigation.’ “‘Every whack-job in the world called into that thing. That’s why there were 4,500 [tips],’ says Davis. ‘Grassley’s team went through the entire tip-line. It was nonsense.’ Davis worked under then-chairman Chuck Grassley on the committee and now runs the Article 3 Project, a conservative group that focuses on the judiciary… “Why focus on the three-year-old confirmation fight now? “Mike Davis says it’s possible Senate Democrats are trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court or intimidate Kavanaugh and other justices. There’s currently a commission studying Court-packing, and this fall the Supreme Court will hear the most important case on abortion in three decades. (The state of Mississippi filed a brief on Thursday afternoon asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.)” Read the full article here. |
| “On Thursday, the New York Times published a report on the three-year-old battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court that attempts to cast a new cloud of suspicion over Justice Kavanaugh. “The Times’ Kate Kelly reported that, in a letter to Democratic senators dated June 30, 2021, the FBI said that it had received 4,500 tips on a tip-line set up during a supplemental background investigation of Kavanaugh, and that the most ‘relevant’ of the tips were referred to the Office of White House Counsel, the entity that had requested the supplemental background investigation… “But the Times’ report leaves out three key details that would have helped both to clear the air and to clear Kavanaugh’s name: (1) The FBI’s supplemental investigation was always supposed to be limited in time and scope; (2) a summary of all the tips the FBI received was available to all 100 U.S. senators; and (3) we have good reason to believe that none of the supposedly “compelling leads” were actually compelling at all… “Mike Davis, who served as chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Kavanaugh hearings, tells National Review that there was a summary of all 4,500 tips in the FBI’s report, which was available to all 100 U.S. senators. “’They printed out the entire tip-line summary,’ says Davis. ‘Every senator had full access to read those things if they wanted to.’ “Davis makes a crucial point about Senate Democrats now expressing outrage: ‘If there was anything that caught their attention, they could have flagged it for further investigation.’ “‘Every whack-job in the world called into that thing. That’s why there were 4,500 [tips],’ says Davis. ‘Grassley’s team went through the entire tip-line. It was nonsense.’ Davis worked under then-chairman Chuck Grassley on the committee and now runs the Article 3 Project, a conservative group that focuses on the judiciary… “Why focus on the three-year-old confirmation fight now? “Mike Davis says it’s possible Senate Democrats are trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court or intimidate Kavanaugh and other justices. There’s currently a commission studying Court-packing, and this fall the Supreme Court will hear the most important case on abortion in three decades. (The state of Mississippi filed a brief on Thursday afternoon asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.)” Read the full article here. |