Secret letter re Kavanaugh

Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI.

The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as California Rep. Anna Eshoo, who originally received the letter and shared it with Feinstein, according to sources familiar with the matter. But whispers of what it contains have made the rounds across Capitol Hill over the past week.

  Buzzfeed

Week? And this is the first we're hearing about it? I'm surprised it wasn't leaked as soon as it went out.

The specific content of the document, which is a letter from a California constituent, is unclear, but Feinstein’s refusal to share the letter has created tension on the committee, particularly after Feinstein largely took a back seat to her more junior colleagues last week, as they took over Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings with protests around access to documents.

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It purportedly describes an incident that was relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter and sent it to Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat who represents the area.

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Different sources provided different accounts of the contents of the letter, and some of the sources said they themselves had heard different versions, but the one consistent theme was that it describes an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school.

  The Intercept

Oh, Jesus. If we have to go back to his high school days to deny him a seat, while he's obviously been lying to Congress, and seems to have a gambling problem and some shady financial issues, we're in worse shape than we appear to be.

The woman is still alive, so unless she and Kavanaugh killed someone, or she knows Kavanaugh did, Feinstein was entirely right to refer the matter to proper authorities and leave it out of the confirmation discussion.  Of course, if the proper authority was the FBI, it might have been something serious, although I believe transporting a minor over a state line for the purposes of sex a federal offense.  But I'm seriously opposed to prosecuting teenagers for consensual sex, if that's what it was.

And please don't make me have to defend Dianne Feinstein ever again.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  Details.  It's bad.