Just Made it All Up

After all the media did to destroy Justice Kavanaugh you'd think they could find a few minutes to devote to this revelation, but, alas, evidently they're too preoccupied chasing down the next shiny object in their hyper-attenuated field of vision.

It turns out that one of the women who accused Judge Kavanaugh of having raped her is now admitting to having made the whole thing up. The following is from the link:

Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has referred another one of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution after she admitted to Committee investigators that she made up allegations that Kavanaugh had raped her in a car.

This referral stems from an anonymous “Jane Doe” letter that the committee received in September that, in graphic detail, claimed that Justice Kavanaugh had raped the letter writer ...“several times...” in the back of a car.

The accuser, a woman whose name, it later turned out, is Judy Munro-Leighton, sent an anonymous letter detailing the accusation to Senator Kamala Harris, who forwarded it to Senate Judiciary Committee investigators.

The letter was signed "Jane Doe" from Oceanside, CA and contained highly graphic sexual-assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh. Here's more from the link:

The anonymous accuser alleged that Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each” in the backseat of a car. In addition to being from an anonymous accuser, the letter listed no return address, failed to provide any timeframe, and failed to provide any location — beyond an automobile — in which these alleged incidents took place.

But the Committee took the letter seriously and even questioned Justice Kavanaugh under oath about the allegation.

They read him the letter in full as part of the questioning. In response to the anonymous allegations, Judge Kavanaugh unequivocally stated: “[T]he whole thing is ridiculous. Nothing ever — anything like that, nothing . . . . [T]he whole thing is just a crock, farce, wrong, didn’t happen, not anything close.”

Later that day, September 26th, the Committee publicly released the transcript of that interview with Judge Kavanaugh, which included the full text of the Jane Doe letter.

Then, on October 3, 2018, Committee staff received an email from a Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton with a subject line claiming: “I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA — Kavanaugh raped me.” Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote that she was “sharing with you the story of the night that Brett Kavanaugh and his friend sexually assaulted and raped me in his car” and referred to “the letter that I sent to Sen. Kamala Harris on Sept. 19 with details of this vicious assault.”

She continued: “I know that Jane Doe will get no media attention, but I am deathly afraid of revealing any information about myself or my family.” She then included a typed version of the Jane Doe letter.

But, as it turns out, the woman who claimed she underwent such a horrific sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh never experienced any such thing. She simply made the whole thing up in order to try to destroy Kavanaugh. Committee investigators were able to track her down and discovered that she was a left-wing activist who is decades older than Judge Kavanaugh and lives neither in Washington, D.C. nor in California, but in Kentucky:

She further confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”; (2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.” She told Committee investigators that she had called Congress multiple times during the Kavanaugh hearing process – including prior to the time Dr. Ford’s allegations surfaced – to oppose his nomination.

Regarding the false sexual-assault allegation she made via her email to the Committee, she said: “I was angry, and I sent it out.”

When asked by Committee investigators whether she had ever met Judge Kavanaugh, she said: “Oh Lord, no.”

So, where does Justice Kavanaugh go to get his reputation back? How do those who went along with the disgraceful charade at the confirmation hearings, who screamed like lunatics from the gallery, who gleefully dissected every salacious accusation on the media talk shows, who delighted in destroying this man's reputation and devastating his family - how do they look at themselves in the mirror without being overcome with nausea and self-loathing?

Maybe their consciences are so numbed by an "ends justifies the means" ethic that they simply shrug, laugh and blithely move on, indifferent to the wrecked lives they've left in their wake.

Fine people, these are.