Are you saying that in the history of aviation, there is not a single example of a person with a fear of flying that has traveled overseas in an airplane for vacation?
This is exactly how my fear manifested – every takeoff, and every landing, I’d be clutching the seat, heart-racing, and trying my hardest to stay calm. For the rest of the flight I was fine, barring severe turbulence or technical problems.
But I still flew quite a bit, including for vacation.
OK, so you weren’t going anywhere with that. No prob.
I am extremely afraid of flying, and flew every week for business, to multiple cities. Yes, you can fly if you’re afraid of flying.
Speaking as a psychotherapist, you’re simply wrong about this.
I think it demonstrates that the FBI is done playing charades and the GOP wants to make sure they can schedule a vote…but hopefully I am wrong.
It is quite clear anything coming from the FBI was not an investigation at this point in time.
The Left has moved a long ways from “trust the professionals” that they were parroting a few days ago.
How?
Do you have any evidence that the FBI asked to run a mustang court? It seems like that the “professionals” are simply not being allowed to do their job.
Once again, I can’t tell what the Fox News talking points are. Are conservatives supposed to believe in the FBI now? Or is it still thoroughly infiltrated by Hillary Deep State supporters? Will my questions only be answered after the FBI finishes its report?
I’m not clear what the final FBI “report” will consist of, or if there will be one. However, I’d bet my life FBI Director Wray will issue a final qualifying memo as to the scope/limitation of the investigation.
I do know so far it’s just FBI summaries of witness statements (called a 302). The FBI has interviewed several people so far. I’m guessing the FBI has wrote up some 302’s and are passing them along to the White House, who in turn, is about to pass them along to the Senate. Nothing nefarious about that.
The Senators will spin information contained in the 302’s how they see fit - whether that’s just using them in regards to the allegation, or as proof the FBI should wrap it up/continue on.
The problem is that the professionals are being deliberately prevented from doing their job right.
Which raises the obvious question: why are they being prevented from doing their job?
They could have been given a timeline and told to get to it, but they were deliberately restricted in the people they could talk to.
This restriction makes no sense if Kavenaugh is innocent…aaannnnnd I just answered the question.
How do we know the FBI is being limited by anyone? Other than the length of one week, which was agreed upon prior to the FBI getting involved.
I’ve read the FBI has not contacted certain individuals, but have not read the FBI has wanted to contact people, but were prevented from doing so. I would expect Director Wray to address this point (in a very subtle way).
In general it is considered good Police practice to at least take statements from material witnesses.
According to news reports the FBI was given a list of people they could talk to.
According to Ramirez’s attorney they gave the FBI a list of 20 people they should talk to, and the FBI didn’t talk to any of them.
According to Ford’s attorney the FBI hasn’t talked to her.
According to Swetnik’s attorney the FBI hasn’t talked to her.
According to Kavenaugh’s former classmate (and current biglaw partner), the FBI ignored her when she tried to provide evidence to them.
I would call this a pattern.
How can one investigate an allegation without talking to the allegator? 
ha, yea I get that. This is just an odd scenario where we had the “trial” before the investigation. I don’t know whether the FBI got enough from the “trial” (all the docs Ford produced and testimony).
I totally get the optics of an investigation that does not interview the accused or accuser.
Anyways, I tend to agree with you, but I wasn’t clear if we had heard anything from the FBI or we were just drawing our own conclusions. Thanks for clarifying.
Don McGahn, the White House counsel advising Kavanaugh on how to get confirmed, is of course the same Don McGahn who actively limited the scope of the FBI investigation.
ETA: Reminds me of this bit of Firesign:
Peorgie: Dad, I still don’t see how you can be my defense lawyer and the People’s Prosecutor all at the same time!
Dad: Easy, son! This way, I can personally see that you’re persecuted to the full extent of the laws.
Peorgie: That’s my Dad!
Another of Kavenaugh’s classmates, Dr. Oh, was ignored when he went to the FBI
And yet another of Kavenaugh’s classmates, Mark Krasberg, was ignored when he went to the FBI
I’m pretty sure the FBI was limited, by agreement, to current credible allegations of sexual assault.
So anyone calling in to tell the FBI about drinking, is going to be ignored by the agents doing this background check with its limited scope. That makes sense, right?
I wouldn’t understand not interviewing witnesses to the Ford/Ramirez allegations, unless it only had to do with getting this done in one week. Which is where I hope Wray will inform me.
Sounds like quite a few people who want to talk to the FBI and have not been able to do so. How strange.