{"id":3708,"date":"2018-09-16T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:55:45","slug":"mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault\/2018\/09\/16\/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html\">the details broke<\/a> today, some pieces of the puzzle that was the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh simply didn&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, why was the story broken only recently, and by Sen. Feinstein of all people? Ms. Feinstein is <em>not<\/em> an <span class=\"title\"> \u00fc<\/span>ber-liberal partisan; quite the contrary, she numbers amongst the centrists that constitute the right wing of the Democratic Party. She is simply not the sort of person to deliberately sit on a story, then release an incomplete version of it as a calculated liberal political maneuver. The claims of many conservatives and Trumpists that it was the latter just didn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Now we know: Feinstein only released the story under duress, after it had been leaked by The Medium. And Feinstein&#8217;s claim about the source of the allegation was indeed correct: Christine Ford did not want the publicity of having her name exposed in that way, and Feinstein was honoring her preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until the details broke today, some pieces of the puzzle that was the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh simply didn&#8217;t fit. Namely, why was the story broken only recently, and by Sen. Feinstein of all people? Ms. Feinstein is not an \u00fcber-liberal partisan; quite the contrary, she numbers amongst the centrists that constitute the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}