We're Watching a Clumsy Cover Up In Real Time - by Josh Marshall

[DonViejo]

This is critical to understanding what is going on here with the Kavanaugh accusations. Just critical.

You know about the Whelan debacle. A far-fetched series of conjectures all leading to pointing the finger of blame at a classmate at Kavanaugh’s school. That was crazy for all the reasons we thought it was crazy – not least a highly trained lawyer brazenly libeling an innocent person. Remember too that Whelan worked with the Federalist Society’s PR firm. There’s also good reason, though not hard proof, to believe Leonard Leo, Federalist Society chief was also involved. Whelan blamed a then-boy named Christ Garrett.

Garrett happened to be a good friend of Kavanaugh’s at the time and was Blasey Ford’s boyfriend at the time of the alleged attack.

Think about this. If you are working from records of where people lived at the time, what are the odds that of all Kavanaugh’s classmates you’d come up with one of Kavanaugh’s friends and the friend who was actually going out with Blasey Ford at the time? Whelan just happened upon the connection which actually brought Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh together? Not likely.

I would suggest that there’s virtually no chance that is a coincidence.

Of course they’re connected. And the connection almost certainly stems from Kavanaugh’s recollections. Kavanaugh says not only that he doesn’t remember the alleged attack but that he doesn’t have any recollection of Blasey Ford at all. They weren’t even in the same social circles, he claimed. She went to a school that didn’t have a lot of overlap with his. And yet, when his friend and top nomination advisors came up with an alternative theory of the crime they picked her then boyfriend? That is not an accident. This fact needs to be investigated just as much as the alleged assault because it is highly likely that shows Kavanaugh’s knowledge and I suspect, if looked at closely, will show real evidence of Kavanaugh’s consciousness of guilt.

By JOSH MARSHALL

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/were-watching-a-clumsy-cover-up-in-real-time

[Baitball Blogger]

1. I've seen clumsier cover-ups on a local level.

This one has a chance because people are becoming aware and getting angrier by the minute.

[Fred Sanders]

3. I hope Garrett does not settle the civil defamation suit and put Whelans's ethical..cough..institute

think tank out of business.

Another huge red flag of corruption the corporate media refuses to reveal to Americans much.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Ed Whelan viciously accuses the ex-boyfriend of a 15 year old Ford based on a hocus locus "find"

using google maps and neighbourhood searches...or...Kavanaugh told his good buddy Eddy the Legal Bagel...a strangely respected by all sides(?) propagandist ...and fellow Federalist Society brethren?

You decide.