Kavanaugh Opens with Fiery Retort to Accuser’s Testimony

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‘My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false allegations…’

Kavanaugh Opens with Fiery Retort to Testimony
Brett Kavanaugh/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Following a morning of composed and “collegial” testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh set a different tone in his opening address, delivering a fiery, raw and emotionally impactful defense that needed to elicit empathy from the Senators in whose hands his fate lies.

Kavanaugh called the 10-day delay in the hearing and the interim media circus a “national disgrace.”

“You have replaced ‘advise and consent’ with ‘search and destroy,'” he said to Senate Democrats.

“I always try to be on the sunrise side of the mountain, to be optimistic about what is coming, but today, I have to say, I fear for the future,” he said.

In stark contrast to Ford’s testimony, during which she often applied her clinical knowledge as a psychologist while claiming not to understand the meaning of the word “exculpatory,” Kavanaugh painted a very personal picture, talking about his close relationships with family and friends.

“I ask you to judge me by the same standard that you would apply to your father, your brother, your husband and your son,” he said.

Kavanaugh acknowledged drinking beer in his youth.

“I liked beer—I still like beer—but… there is a bright line between drinking beer—which I gladly do and I fully embrace—and sexual assault.”

He made a cautionary appeal that if every beer-drinking American is accused of sexual assault, dark days lie ahead.

The testimony–in which he frequently scowled, crossed his arms and sniffled, coming close to breaking down emotionally–showed a very different person than a more distant interview with Fox News a few nights ago.

Although backed by many female friends and supporters, he sat alone at the table as a man against the world.

The besmirching of his name, he feared, had stakes beyond the Supreme Court, having potentially cost him teaching and coaching positions.

“My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false allegations.”

In addition to conveying emotion, Kavanaugh also did his best to highlight his personal attributes and dismantle Ford’s testimony while avoiding a personal attack on her.

“Dr. Ford’s allegation is not merely uncorroborated. It is refuted by the very people she said were there—including a longtime friend of hers.”

While largely effective in his opening testimony, Kavanaugh’s emotional delivery spilled over into early exchanges with Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Republican interrogator Rachel Mitchell.

With both, he emphatically denied the sexual assault allegations.

Blasey Ford Throws Friend Who Didn’t Recall Party Under the Bus; Exposes Her Health Problems

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‘I don’t expect that PJ and Leland would remember this evening… Leland has significant health challenges, and I’m happy that she’s focusing on herself…’

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Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, and Christine Blasey Ford/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) After a lunch recess, set for 30 minutes, that lasted closer to an hour, the intensity of the mostly cordial Senate Judiciary hearings seemed to pick up slightly.

However, those hoping for an ‘aha’ moment were likely let down by the mostly tame proceedings.

Republican interrogator Rachel Mitchell appear to ratchet up the pressure on Ford in her line of questioning as to how Ford’s fees were being paid and who had advised her of certain steps, such as taking a polygraph test.

Ford’s attorney Deborah Katz stepped in: “Let me put an end to this mystery. Her lawyers have paid for this polygraph… as is routine.”

In subsequent inquiry, it was established that Katz had been recommended as an attorney by the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Mitchell also directed some questions to Ford about other ways that her costs might be covered in addition to her personally financing them.

“I’m aware that there’s been several GoFundMe sites that I haven’t had a chance to manage,” Ford said.

Her attorneys acknowledged that both were working on a pro-bono basis.

The aim seemed to be to establish links between Katz’s office and groups like Demand Justice, a left-wing advocacy group led by former Hillary Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon and former Feinstein staffer Paige Herwig, which has been active in the campaign to attack and undermine Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court.

Although Mitchell raised the suggestion of outside political funding and influence, she did not press further during the interrogation.

Interspersed with Mitchell’s inquiry were the five-minute intervals of praise from some of the more outspoken–and amtitious–Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee.

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Sen. Mazie Hirono/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, New Jersey’s Corey Booker and California’s Kamala Harris continued to praise Ford for coming forward and to remind her, as Harris observed, “You are not on trial.”

Mitchell also seemed to rattle Ford slightly by inquiring about the nature of her relationship with Chris Garrett, a mutual friend of Ford’s and the two accused assaulters, Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.

Garrett was first publicly identified–and implicated as someone who may have committed the assault instead of Kavanaugh–by Ed Whelan last week. Whelan–a friend of Kavanaugh’s and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center–later recanted and apologized for publicly naming Garrett before taking a leave of absence from the center.

Ford resisted bringing Garrett into the testimony, pointedly declining to name him specifically. “I just don’t feel like it’s right for us to be talking about that,” she said.

However, she clarified, “He was somebody that I used the phrase,’ I went out with,’ for a couple months… after that we were distant friends and ran into each other periodically.”

When pressed on the question of why her close friend and confidant Leland Ingham Keyser had not acknowledged any memory of the party, Ford said, “Leland has significant health challenges, and I’m happy that she’s focusing on herself and getting the health treatment that she needs.”

She said Keyser’s role in the case all had been handled through an attorney.

But Ford added that she had not chosen immediately after the party to discuss the alleged assault with Keyser.

“I don’t expect that PJ [Patrick Smyth] and Leland would remember this evening—it was a very unremarkable party [for them]. It was not one of their more notorious parties… Mr. [Mark] Judge is a different story. I would expect that he would remember that this happened.”

Mitchell Questions Blasey Ford on Polygraph Validity and Decision to Go Public

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‘Someone composing a story can make it all come together in a seamless way, but someone who is honest … is also candid about what he or she cannot remember.’

Mitchell Questions Blasey Ford on Polygraph Validity and Decision to Go Public
Christine Blasey Ford and Rachel Mitchell/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony continued through a 12:45 p.m. lunch break recess, the line of inquiry from the interrogator representing Republican Judiciary Committee members focused on the events from Ford’s writing of a confidential letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein on July 30 and her ultimate decision to go public with the information.

One line of questioning that seemed to raise some questions was the validity of a polygraph test that she took at the advice of her attorneys. Ford said she took the polygraph at a hotel conference room near the Baltimore-Washington International Airport the day after her grandmother’s funeral while she was rushed to catch an outgoing flight.

Ford said that she was “crying a lot” during the administration of the test.

“I was scared of the test itself, but I was comfortable that I could tell the information and the test would reveal whatever it was expected to reveal,” she said.

The timing of Ford’s hiring of lawyers also seemed to raise some additional scrutiny. Ford said she was interviewing attorneys after submitting her letter to Feinstein while on vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware during the first week of August.

Ford said she interviewed attorneys in the driveway and while sitting in a Walgreens parking lot based on the advice of friends she was vacationing with.

“Those persons advised me to at this point get a lawyer for advice as to whether to push forward or to stay back.”

But despite her decision to go forward, she said she never spoke personally about the allegations with anyone, including her parents during a visit to New Hampshire the following week.

“Definitely not,” she said.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

Democrats, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D.-Conn., spent much of their time belaboring certain points about the need for an FBI investigation and the need for testimony from alleged witness Mark Judge.

Blumenthal also grandstanded a bit about the importance for trauma victims to come forward and the inspiring example Ford has set, as well as the difficulty for abuse survivors to provide accurate details.

“You have been very honest about what you cannot remember, and someone composing a story can make it all come together in a seamless way, but someone who is honest—I speak from my experiences as a prosecutor as well—is also candid about what he or she cannot remember.”

Mitchell Seeks Inconsistencies in Kavanaugh Accuser’s Account

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‘I can’t recall whether she saw them directly or whether I just told her what they said…’

Rachel Mitchell/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Largely coming off as sympathetic, composed and confident during opening testimony, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford described her memories of the alleged incident that occurred in the summer of 1992 after a day of swimming at the Columbia Country Club.

While she did not add many additional details of the assault itself from what already had been reported in her Washington Post narrative, she attempted to lend credibility to the story and put a personal face on it.

“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter—the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense,” she recounted, describing how the 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, pinballed down the stairs afterward.

She also described having a second encounter with Judge after the episode at the Potomac Village Safeway, where he worked.

“I was with my mother, and I was a teenager, so I wanted her to go in one door and me the other. I chose the wrong door,” she said.

After running into Judge, she said, “His face was white and very uncomfortable saying hello back… He was just nervous and not wanting to speak with me—he looked a little bit ill.”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, during his five minutes of questioning, called on Judge to come forward.

“Mark Judge should be subpoenaed from his Bethany Beach hideaway and required to testify, but he has not.”

Interrogator Rachel Mitchell interacted cordially with Ford while asking questions that were intended to put holes in her testimony, asking her about inconsistencies in the time frame and the fact that she claimed to have heard a conversation downstairs despite the loud music coming from the room where she claimed to be assaulted.

One line of questioning seemed to be directed toward the accuracy of the counseling notes that Ford referred to as corroborating her previous disclosure of the assault episode. There seemed to be a question as to whether she specifically named Kavanaugh in them or whether she just said generically that a federal judge had assaulted her.

Ford said she had consulted her counseling notes with the counselor after the fact using an online module to confirm what she had said, and although her interview with the Washington Post happened only two weeks ago, she could not recall if the reporter had a copy of the notes or if they were just summarized.

“I can’t recall whether she saw them directly or whether I just told her what they said.”

Mitchell also followed up on Ford’s fear of flying, which she claimed had prevented her from testifying earlier.

“I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane.”

Mitchell followed up by asking about her frequent traveling for vacation and yearly trips to visit her family on the East Coast.

“It’s easier to travel the other way … when it’s on a vacation,” she said.

Grassley Opens Kavanaugh Hearing with Criticism of Feinstein, Dems

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‘This will be a stark contrast to the grandstanding and chaos that we saw from the other side…’

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Christine Blasey Ford and Sen. Chuck Grassley/IMAGE: Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the hearing on allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with scathing criticism on the Democratic tactics that had led to incivility and undermined the privacy of both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

“This is a shameful way to treat our witness, who insisted on confidentiality, and of course Judge Kavanaugh, who has had to address these allegations in the midst of a media circus.”

He directly criticized Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein for having kept secret the letter that Ford had given to Democrats from July 30 to Sept. 13, saying the allegations could have been investigated more thoroughly and maintained Ford’s confidentiality if it had been properly handled.

He clarified that the calls to send the allegations to the FBI for investigation were not a normal procedure, quoting then Sen. Joe Biden during the Anita Hill hearings against Justice Clarence Thomas in the early 90s.

“The FBI explicitly does not in this or any other case, reach a conclusion,” he quoted Biden as saying. However, he said the Judiciary Committee had conducted its own thorough investigations. Moreover, he pointed out the fact that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI no less than six times in the past.

“Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports … was there a whiff of any issue … to inappropriate sexual behavior.”

Grassley also addressed the use of female prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, a sex-crimes expert, to conduct the interrogation.

“This will be a stark contrast to the grandstanding and chaos that we saw from the other side.”

Grassley seemed determined to be overly accommodating to Ford, introducing moments of levity after Ford’s opening statement by breaking to get her coffee.

“We’re here to accommodate you, not you accommodate us,” he said after asking when she wanted to take a break.

“I’m used to being collegial,” Ford replied.

Interrogator Rachel Mitchell seemed to come close to rattling Ford on a few questions while trying to seek corrections of the record.

Overall, Ford, despite a vocal fry when recounting her story, seemed well composed. She indicated she was “100 percent” certain it was Kavanaugh, despite letters from two men the evening prior that were submitted to the Judiciary Committee from men claiming they were the assaulters.

Susan Rice Tells Students to ‘Call B.S. on Older People’

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‘It is so important for you to call B.S. on older people who are perpetuating and exploiting these divisions…’

SOURCES: Susan Rice Behind Unmasking of Trump Officials
Susan Rice/Photo by New America (CC)

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The approaching election has brought out some frightening specters from the past.

Susan Rice–former national security adviser, U.N. ambassador, Benghazi spin doctor and domestic surveillance unmasker–acknowledged enough when she promised students at the University of Pennsylvania that she may return to haunt them.

“Look, if y’all don’t vote, I’m going to come up here and haunt every single one of you,” said Rice, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Rice currently is a visiting fellow at Penn, but her most prominent role since leaving the White House was joining the board of Netflix shortly before Barack and Michelle Obama inked a lucrative development deal with the streaming entertainment company.

Rice also told the Penn audience that it was time to stop listening to their elders and take charge. “It is so important for young people to be engaged, and it is so important for you to call B.S. on older people who are perpetuating and exploiting these divisions,” she said.

Her visit came on the heels of similar campaign style events over the past week featuring both Obamas and former Attorney General  Eric Holder, all promoting a similar “get out the vote” message with an “us versus them” subtext geared toward low-information voters.

At a recent rally in Las Vegas, Michelle Obama reminded voters that they could vote even if they “know nothing” about current events, and that they needed to be sure not to let “other people” run the democracy.

Her husband, meanwhile, trolled President Donald Trump by taking credit for the robust economy that has helped buoy the current chief executive.

Trump responded, in turn, by saying he fell asleep during Obama’s speech.

Dems Show Hypocrisy in Hiring Special Woman Investigator of Ellison

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‘This strikes me as taking chickens**t behavior to a whole new level….’

DNC Chair Ellison Attended Private Dinner w. Iran’s President and Farrakhan
Keith Ellison/Photo by Karen Smith Murphy (CC)

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Democrats on Tuesday tried to lambast Senate Republicans for a decision to have a female prosecutor interrogate Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford.

But in doing so, they once again showed little self-awareness, given the fact that a similar move to outsource to an external female investigator was taken in the case of Keith Ellison, current deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, over whether he physically assaulted former partner Karen Monahan.

With Congressional testimony scheduled for tomorrow in the Kavanaugh hearing, both sides are angling to present themselves in the best light.

Ford’s lawyers have issued an unprecedented list of demands to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including which type of cameras and what media outlets should be allowed into the room, the location of the hearing and size of the room, and the sequence of testimony. (As employment attorney Adam Mill noted on The Federalist, some of these demands should be considered red flags.)

The GOP Senators on the panel, meanwhile, wary of the optics since the last time Democrats attempted to torpedo a Supreme Court nominee with specious rape accusations, announced that they would designate female prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, Arizona, to lead the interrogation.

One might expect the Democrats to applaud such a move, allowing Ford the opportunity to tell her harrowing tale of nearly having her clothes removed to a member of the same gender, but predictably, since it ran counter to the Left’s true objective, they invoked Alinsky rule No. 5 by dispatching radical leftist entertainment personalities like Sarah Silverman and Stephen King to mock the move in profanity-laced tweets.

Silverman referred to the Judiciary Panel as a “[expletive] geriatric tone deaf sausage party.”

King said, “This strikes me as taking ‘chicken[expletive] behavior’ to a whole new level.”

Once considered to be a journalist, HBO’s Soledad O’Brien at least was able to temper the language in her caustic commentary enough to make it printable:

Bizarrely, while the Left ridiculed the GOP overture, it did the very same thing in its investigation of Rep. Keith  Ellison, D-Minnesota, who has taken heat for accusations that he physically abused ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan.

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Karen Monahan/IMAGE: CBS News via Youtube

Those accusations, which the national DNC punted to its state branch in Minnesota to investigate, have given conservatives their latest fodder to point to the Left’s hypocrisy and disingenuous approach to women’s issues. Monahan, unlike Kavanaugh’s accusers, has provided medical records and firsthand witness accounts to corroborate her allegations.

Ellison is currently locked in a race with Republican Doug Wardlow to be elected Minnesota attorney general.

According to an Associated Press report, after Ellison won his primary battle in August, Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, decided to hire an external investigator to be sure “that it wouldn’t be colored by people with associations with the party” (i.e., so Democrats wouldn’t have to get their hands dirty by either backing or repudiating Ellison).

They went with Susan Ellingstad, a partner with the same law firm as their official DFL party attorney, Charlie Nauen. Interestingly, one of the other cases Nauen represented for the firm was the recount that reversed the 2008 election results in favor of disgraced Sen. Al Franken, who himself was later forced to resign amid MeToo groping allegations.

While Democrats in Congress have made clear their desire for a protracted investigation that would forestall the Kavanaugh confirmation vote until after the Nov. 6 midterm elections (when they hope to regain control of Congress), Martin seemed eager to rush into a conclusion of the Ellison investigation and was pressing for a final report, the AP said.

“I’m starting to get a little frustrated because it’s been a long time now, almost two months,” he said. “I hope soon. I hope any day here.”

A poll of 800 Minnesota voters in early September had Ellison with a 5-point edge over Wardlow, though 18 percent remained undecided and neither candidate had a majority. A nearly equal split sided with Ellison and with Monahan, though a whopping 57 percent remained unsure about the investigation.

Cruz Supporters Hit Back at Socialist Dinner Disruptors

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‘No—you can’t eat in peace—your politics are an attack on all of us…’

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Sen. Ted Cruz/IMAGE: Smash Racism DC via Twitter

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Seething over yet another outrageous boundary of civility crossed by militant leftist activists, Ted Cruz supporters may have gone overboard themselves in attacking the restaurant that Cruz and his wife were chased out of on Monday.

Video of the encounter showed a group–clearly not patrons of the posh D.C. Italian restaurant–loudly chanting, getting in the face of Cruz and flipping him off while disrupting the dining experience of everyone there.

White-coated servers are seen holding the door for the Cruzes, and after the Texas senator’s exit, a man with an Italian accent is heard instructing the agitators to “leave the premises; this is a private space.”

The group that posted the video, Smash Racism DC, identifies itself on social media as a branch of Antifa. It attacked Cruz in a series of five discursive and rambling Twitter posts in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, whining about income equality, migrant children, LGBT rights and the Brett Kavanaugh nomination.  “No—you can’t eat in peace—your politics are an attack on all of us,” it began.

Echoing the fallout of an earlier incident in which White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a Lynchburg, Virginia restaurant by its owner, conservative supporters took to crowd-sourcing review site Yelp to vent at the restaurant, Fiola, which is located on Pennsylvania Avenue only a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol and National Mall.

For its part, Fiola responded with a post on its Facebook page, explaining that it tried to act in the best interest of customers’ safety. “Recognizing that there was a potential for escalation and concerned for the safety of all our customers, our management did what they could do to diffuse a difficult situation and, as is our policy, if there is ever an event of this nature, the police were immediately called.”

However, the post added that employees did not intervene more because the wait staff lacked the necessary training to address such a conflict. “We are trained at hospitality not public safety, and our highest priority is always the well-being of our customers.”

While some speculated that the waitstaff may have been complicit in the protest or even tipped the off the protestors, there is no evidence that those with a financial stake in the business, namely owners Fabio and Maria Trabocchi, supported it. A web page for the Trabocchis lists a number of global ‘human rights’ causes they support but also shows them to be pillars of the local business community.

As revealed in a recent video investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas last week, activist radicals have used increasingly sophisticated, subversive and sinister ways of tracking and stalking both public figures and private citizens.

The group that Project Veritas has most focused on exposing in its series of four “deep state” investigations so far is the DC Democratic Socialists of America.

According to the Smash Racism DC Twitter, DCDSA members also were involved in the Cruz protest.

Abortion Ad from 2012 May Explain Ford’s Miraculous Memory ‘Recovery’

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‘With all the histrionics of Ford now jarring front page headlines, it is not easy too see that she’s only the bit player in the #MeToo assassination of Brett Kavanaugh…’

IMAGE: Facebook screenshot via Buzzfeed

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the nation awaits the arrival of Thursday to see whether Christine Blasey Ford–who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a long-ago sexual assault when both were teenagers–will make good on her word by showing up to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, some have done their best to fill in the gaps left by Ford’s uncorroborated Washington Post account.

One of the lingering questions: What possibly could have jostled the California psychology professor’s suppressed memories of the drunken night, then 30 years prior, when she claims she first revealed the story during a counseling session?

Until now, those who question Ford’s motives–in light of her past involvement in anti-Trump demonstrations and her decision to deliver her story directly to Sen. Dianne Feinstein rather than to non-partisan law-enforcement investigators–have struggled to reconcile the timeline with speculation about her vested interest in organized Kavanaugh-smearing campaigns, such as the one covering her legal expenses.

One investigative journalist leading the charge in vetting Ford’s credibility, Canadian Free Press’s Judi McLeod, recently unearthed a 2012 Planned Parenthood ad that may offer the answer.

When it first ran, around Nov. 5 2012, a day before Obama coasted into his second presidential term, Buzzfeed fawningly reported on the “scare” campaign directed at liberals that featured a photoshopped mock-up of a New York Times front page on the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned by the hypothetical Romney administration.

“With all the histrionics of Ford now jarring front page headlines, it is not easy too see that she’s only the bit player in the #MeToo assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, a prop moved forward by Planned Parenthood when the time was right,” McLeod wrote.

The ad features Kavanaugh photoshopped into an illustration of the Supreme Court, which still features the late Antonin Scalia and retiring Anthony Kennedy but is absent the octogenarian left-wing pillar Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The ad tellingly reveals that Kavanaugh, due to his rising star and his political views, already was on the radar of the well-heeled leftist “resistance.”

Although such a long-con operation might previously have been unfathomable, the magnitude of chutzpah and the level of coordination in the Left’s efforts to undermine political adversaries has since become evident in President Donald Trump’s exposing of partisan activists embedded in the ‘deep state’ federal bureaucracy.

Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner explained Kavanaugh’s credentials as follows:

“Although not a household name, Kavanaugh, who had served on the staff of Kenneth Starr during his Independent Counsel investigation of President Clinton, was nominated to the D.C. Circuit by former President George W. Bush. Kavanaugh, who had worked for Bush as well, faced nearly three years of opposition from Democrats but eventually was confirmed on May 26, 2006, by a vote of 57-36.”

O’Keefe’s Latest Exposé Blows Lid Off Deep State at IRS

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‘You should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever…’

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Thomas Sheehy/IMAGE: Project Veritas via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The fourth in a series of ‘Deep State’ exposés from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas on Tuesday brought the most shocking look to date at the callous disregard for law and country among radical socialists who have infiltrated the federal bureaucracy.

While previous undercover videos showed questionable activism at the State Department, Justice Department, Health and Human Services, and the Government Accountability Office, the fourth one, profiling two IRS employees, goes beyond partisan mischief-making into the realm of seditious malfeasance.

Thomas Sheehy, an IRS tax examiner and member of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America, candidly confesses that, if given the opportunity, he would work to actively undermine the United States’ most sacred and fundamental of principles.

“Unfortunately, I am not allowed by the bylaws of my union to go against the constitution,” he says, before admitting that he would if he could.

It is particularly shocking in light of the 2013 Lois Lerner controversy—generally considered one of the top 5 scandals of the Obama administration—in which the agency’s director overseeing tax-exempt organizations pleaded the Fifth to avoid criminal prosecution.

The wrist-slapping rebuke that Lerner got for targeting conservative nonprofits with additional scrutiny during the 2012 election seems to have resulted in little to no reform—or even so much as contrition among the IRS pencil-pushers moonlighting as domestic terrorists.

“The IRS indeed has fought for privacy for itself while simultaneously demanding for more disclosure from citizens,” O’Keefe said, pointing out the agency’s maneuvering to seal testimony from Lerner and her conspirators in order to protect them from public scrutiny.

For his part, Sheehy speaks admiringly of a former IRS commissioner who attempted to delete tens of thousands of emails related to the scandal.

“John Koskinen. He got a lot of flak for giving increased scrutiny to these Tea Party groups; conservatives got really mad at him,” Sheehy tells the undercover interviewer. “He was so cool, though, because he deleted all the emails, so they could not hold any evidence against him.”

Sheehy then unleashes a profanity-laden screed showing just how little he regards the rule of law that he is entrusted by the public both to follow and enforce.

“Yeah, I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime for doing that,” he says. “ … You should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever.”

Project Veritas is able to do in its undercover interview what few were able to do on the public record, which is to acknowledge that Lerner’s office knowingly engaged in unseemly—and illegal—activity while specifically targeting conservative groups.

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IRS Attorney Jerry Semasek/IMAGE: Project Veritas via Youtube

Jerry Semasek, an IRS attorney, says he worked with people in the Tax Exempt Government Entities division during the 2013 scandal.

Although more prudent than Sheehy in his comments–insisting that Congressional Republicans blew the scandal out of proportion and that Lerner was unfairly singled out as its mastermind–Semasek repeatedly confesses to the undercover interviewer that “mistakes were made.”

“Lois Lerner and maybe some of her employees were more liberal leaning or Democrats,” he says, “so I don’t know if they disallowed them, but they required them to produce more documentation to try to prove that they weren’t partisan.”

O’Keefe says that the series of investigations, which began last week, so far has resulted in the removal of two federal employees, the GAO’s Natarajan Subramanian and the Justice Department’s Allison Hrabar.

On a special page devoted to the official responses to its report, it also offers comments from the other agencies featured, which assure that they are investigating the criminal and ethical violations.

O’Keefe promises that even more reports are forthcoming: “Stay tuned to see which government agency we unmask next.”

Frighteningly, Sheehy, in his own candid words, reveals that Project Veritas may only be scratching the surface in the network of corruption that leftist extremists have managed to hack into. He mentions one such comrade of his, named Chris, who helps manage the Democratic Socialists of America’s tech stuff and social media, and also helps write its bylaws:

“He actually is on the national social media working group. So, he helps run the national Twitter account,” Sheehy says.