Remember that Kavanaugh would have been SUPREMELY BLACKMAILABLE...

[Grasswire2]

..were it not for Dr. Ford opening the gates of truth about him.

Blackmailable for financial irregularities, as well as all this other criminal sexual assault.

[Recursion]

1. Seriously

This is why clearance background checks are supposed to be intrusive enough to find all this stuff.

[Grasswire2]

3. Really frightening, isn't it.

And I don't hear any realization of that in media coverage.

[RockRaven]

2. For Trump, Putin, the Mercers, the Kochs, etc that is a feature not a bug

for all of us, it is a disaster.

[Grasswire2]

6. yes

But the implications........straight out of a Le Carre novel.

[marylandblue]

5. He is still blackmailable, it may even be happening right now

Maybe he would have withdrawn by now, but they are forcing him to stay.

[Grasswire2]

7. maybe so

There is the matter of Justice Kennedy's banker son, as well.

[SimpleC]

8. Security Clearances

I held Top Secret for a long time, the background checks are not as up your rectum as you may believe. Sure I smoked pot in high school and got in trouble a couple times as a teen, but nothing serious.

The more sensitive the position the deeper they examine the rectum.

A supreme court judgeship though deserves a good cavity search though...

[G_j]

9. absolutely

a very real concern.

[ProfessorPlum]

10. Exactly - I keep making this point too

it's not that he was a bad choice on Trump's part. He was a _controllable_ choice.