Paul

“the dynamic I had anticipated unfolded, but in a different way. It’s not that four, five, six, seven people came forward with different accusations. It was that a group of corroborative witnesses around two core credible accusations were simply shut out.”34”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“any senator, either, but one who had been his Yale Law School classmate.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“What were the rules the agents were following? With the list of people the FBI was interviewing seemingly limited to four—Mark Judge, P. J. Smyth, Leland Keyser, and Deborah Ramirez—this looked less like a searching inquiry than a con job. Coons called Flake, asking if he had agreed that only four witnesses would be interviewed. No, Flake said: it would be done “by the book”—that phrase again.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“This was exactly the kind of tip a credible FBI investigation would pursue. It had been given a road map that led directly to Stier. It simply chose not to follow the trail.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover