NYT Leaves Out Key Details In Article Reviving Smear Campaign Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh

7/24/21
 
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from Daily Wire,
7/24/21:

Last week, The New York Times attempted to revive the smear campaign against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, pointing to a letter from the FBI to seven Democratic senators sent on June 30, 2021, discussing thousands of tips that had been sent in during Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

The 4,500 tips that came into the FBI tip line are being presented as new or “compelling,” even though they are anything but.

As National Review’s John McCormack reported, the Times (and other media outlets) left out key details that would provide context showing that a number of tips were frivolous.

“[T]he Times’ report leaves out three key details that would have helped both to clear the air and to clear Kavanaugh’s name: (1) The FBI’s supplemental investigation was always supposed to be limited in time and scope; (2) a summary of all the tips the FBI received was available to all 100 U.S. senators; and (3) we have good reason to believe that none of the supposedly ‘compelling leads’ were actually compelling at all,” McCormack wrote.

Further, Mike Davis, chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, said the Democrats’ sudden outrage at the tip line information was odd.

“If there was anything that caught their attention, they could have flagged it for further investigation,” Davis told National Review.

“Every whack-job in the world called into that thing. That’s why there were 4,500 [tips],” Davis added. “Grassley’s team went through the entire tip-line. It was nonsense.”

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