{"id":97742,"date":"2018-09-28T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-backs-investigation-into-kavanaughs-past\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T03:22:25","slug":"bennet-backs-investigation-into-kavanaughs-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-backs-investigation-into-kavanaughs-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennet backs investigation into Kavanaugh\u2019s past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201c(I) appreciate effort by Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Chris Coons and Sen. Joe Manchin to delay the vote and allow for an FBI investigation,\u201d Bennet said. \u201cThis is one small but important step toward restoring our responsibility to advise and consent. The FBI must thoroughly investigate the allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bennet said that there were multiple allegations, though he did not list Kavanaugh\u2019s accusers\u2019 names, including Deborah Ramirez of Boulder. In a statement released Thursday, he also called for an investigation to look into a \u201cdispute\u201d arising from Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s testimony that she is 100 percent certain her attacker was Kavanaugh and Kavanaugh\u2019s strong denial of the allegations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA hearing is neither a trial nor an investigation,\u201d Bennet said. \u201cBefore we vote on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, the FBI should investigate the underlying facts of the dispute. If Leader (Mitch) McConnell can hold open a Supreme Court vacancy for more than 400 days, the FBI can surely spend the time required for a formal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Friday night, Bennet had not issued any further statements about the investigation after it had been ordered. He also has not commented on an anonymous allegation from a fourth accuser, received Monday by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

During Friday\u2019s committee confirmation hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he had been notified of the anonymous allegation by Gardner, though it had not been corroborated. He also discussed another letter alleging physical abuse by Kavanaugh that \u201cwas not true.\u201d The allegation was not discussed by any senator during Ford or Kavanaugh\u2019s testimony Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Gardner was unavailable for comment after the president ordered an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to privacy regarding mail that comes into our office, we do not share the content of correspondence,\u201d said Gardner\u2019s press secretary, Casey Contres, in a Wednesday statement. \u201cAdditionally, this anonymous letter contained no name or no contact info so our office is unable to contact the individual that sent the anonymous letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Martin is a student at American University in Washington, D.C., and an intern for <\/em>The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c(I) appreciate effort by Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Chris Coons and Sen. Joe Manchin to delay the vote and allow for an FBI investigation,\u201d Bennet said. \u201cThis is one small but important step toward restoring our responsibility to advise and consent. The FBI must thoroughly investigate the allegations.\u201d Bennet said that there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[24,25],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-u-s-sen-cory-gardner","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97742"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}