The only way to stop false allegations

[SHRED]

For instance, false allegations of sexual misconduct concocted by Republicans to destroy Democrats.

We are NOT protected if we forgo an Ethics Committee investigation in favor of "trial by media".
We will never get Franken's accusers under oath.

The green light has now been given to that wretched party and we are now vulnerable because of our leadership and fellow Senators who have overreacted.

I think we need to be consistent and demand ethics hearings for anyone accused no matter their party affiliation.

Or what's the alternative?
If there's a better way than "guilty without recourse" I am open to hearing it.

[TomCADem]

1. Slate - Mercedes Colwin tells Hannity women lie about harassment for money

So, you are saying that Sean Hannity was on the money?

https://slate.com/business/2017/11/mercedes-colwin-tells-hannity-women-lie-about-harassment-for-money.html

I try not to allow myself to get worked up about the vile things Fox News hosts and their guests say on air most nights. But I’ve had trouble getting this clip from Thursday night’s Hannity out of my head. In it, a powerful female attorney with a management role at a major American law firm says that women frequently make up sexual harassment claims for money and that actual victims of sexual predators are “few and far between.”

Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin was appearing on Sean Hannity’s show to discuss the bombshell allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who according the Washington Post took home and undressed a 14-year-old girl when he was a 32-year-old prosecutor. The segment went about how you would expect. Hannity argued that people shouldn’t rush to judgment and that Moore deserved our presumption of innocence. Colwin, an employment lawyer who has appeared on the network since 2005, invoked her experience representing “hundreds of corporate executives that have been accused of sexual misconduct,” and confirmed for Hannity that women often lie about harassment for political purposes or money.

Hannity: Do people do it for money? Do they do it for political reasons? Is that more common than people think?

Colwin: Oh definitely.

Hannity: They will lie to make money?

Colwin: Undoubtedly. I mean, there are individuals who will come forward with these outrageous allegations, and they fall…

Hannity: And that hurts women who are victims.

Colwin: Yes. I used to work in sex crimes in the DA’s office. It was very pitiful to see that. Because some jurors don’t believe it because they have, in their own lives, there are people who have made these accusations for money. You see this time and time and time again. And sexual harassment, that term is coined everywhere, frankly, the laws are very clear about what it takes to have some sort of violation of the law. You have to have some sort of damage. And these individuals, a lot of these women, it’s all about money, and they bank on the fact that these corporations have the reputation that they want to save.

[KT2000]

2. and they will use it

without end. There is no reason why these investigation cannot be done quickly - and should have been done for Franken. Another entity than Congress needs to do the investigation too. Certainly there is something in the Judicial branch that could take this on. Packwood's case took 3 years and there was no reason for that.

I hope the media picks up on Tweeden and her connections and lies. I hope they show the video of her crying because she was so traumatized.

[AJT]

3. Does the GOP own the ethics committees since they have

both the house and senate?