Kafka-naugh's Preppy-gate ... J'Accuse!
More interesting is whether Kavanaugh was a party to the conversations that placed his high school classmate into the frame, considering his friendship with Sideshow Ed Whelan. Judge K. now might face his own Trial. Grisham meets Kafka.
This isn’t a case of a fringe conspiracy theory. Whelan is a well-connected guy in Republican legal circles with a long history of working on judicial nominations.
He’s also a good friend of Kavanaugh’s and had reportedly been involved in the effort to get him confirmed. When you put these things together, it raises serious questions as to whether anyone in the White House or Congress knew about or helped coordinate the potentially libelous tweetstorm. It’s even possible that Kavanaugh himself was involved.
Whelan denied any communication with Kavanaugh or the White House about the theory — but, notably, did not mention anyone in Congress. There’s at least some circumstantial evidence that Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah who has supported Kavanaugh throughout the Ford saga, was looped in.
Patsy de Clam… but only if the accused sues and will there be inducements not to sue, considering the value of the appointment to the WH and the willingness of the various participants to engage in potentially illegal behavior… $130,000 will not be enough.
Editor’s note: Early Friday, shortly after Fox & Friends aired his conspiracy theory about Christine Blasey Ford’s attempted-rape allegations, Ed Whelan issued an apology on Twitter, posting: “I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh's Georgetown Prep classmate. I take full responsibility for that mistake, and I deeply apologize for it. I realize that does not undo the mistake.”
Thursday evening, longtime conservative activist Ed Whelan put on his Sherlock Holmes cap and tweeted a wild series of conjectures that another man, not Brett Kavanaugh, assaulted Christine Blasey Ford 36 years ago.
Astonishingly, Whelan also tweeted the name, former address, photographs, and Facebook posts of this individual, who is a private citizen.
Immediately, condemnations rained down on the once-lionized activist (a former clerk to Justice Scalia and head of the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center) from all quarters: conservative and liberal, public and private.
Immediately, some wondered whether his tweets constitute defamation.
Answer: unless Whelan’s suspect is guilty, they sure do.
What did Orrin know and when did he know it?
Ed Whelan even looks like du Paty de Clam, the expert in the Dreyfus trial.
It’s an indictment of the quality of legal training and the experience of SCOTUS clerks that Twitter becomes the bordereau of record.
Sideshow Ed Whelan’s fellow Harvard Law grads have even come to his defense and Harvard is reconsidering whether Kavanaugh gets an invite back to lecture.
“This phenomenon is also addressed by Kafka biographer Reiner Stach: The Trial "is gruesome in its entirety, but comical in its details."[15] The judges read porn magazines instead of law books and send for women as if they were ordering a splendid meal on a tray. The executioners look like aging tenors. Due to a hole in the floor of one of the courtrooms, an advocate's leg protrudes into the room below from time to time.”...” “’[a] sense of punishment or perhaps an unconscious demand for punishment [...] and a tragic or absurd downfall are signalled in this context.’” (en.wikipedia.org/...)