Sen. Collins says FBI investigation should include Julie Swetnik’s allegations

Swetnick, who is represented by celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, has alleged she was gang-raped at high school parties she attended while she was in college, where Kavanaugh was also present.

The author of the letter says he mistook Julie Swetnick for a prostitute, learned she has a “penchant” for group sex and that her dad said she has mental issues.

Julie Swetnick, the third woman to come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, backed off some of those claims in a television interview that aired Tuesday night. News made a different decision. He said he was approached by Swetnick at a bar in 1993, when he was having marital problems with his now ex-wife, and initially mistook her for a prostitute. The interview was a continued topic of conversation – and further reporting – today.

In her declaration, Swetnick was more definitive about Kavanaugh’s alleged conduct at the parties.

Even if Ketterer’s statements about Swetnick are accurate, they don’t diminish the severity or credibility of Swetnick’s allegations, she said.

Those are normal signals for news organizations to apply the brakes.

If they are shown to be true, Kavanaugh must not just lose the nomination vote but spend the rest of his life in prison.

“We would hope Hatch would be more concerned with getting at the truth than with discrediting women accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct”, Matheson said. “I saw him try to shift clothing”, she recalled.

Swetnick swore she knew Kavanaugh “spiked” punch at a party with “drugs and/or grain alcohol”.

She said she would be “fully, willing, and able to speak with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and tell them everything I know about Brett Kavanaugh and his misconduct if I am contacted”.

Swetnik is the woman who claims that Kavanaugh and a high school classmate, Mark Judge, were excessively drinking and at parties where girls were sexually assaulted.

Judge’s attorney Barbara Van Gelden told the Judiciary Committee on Friday that her client meant to fully cooperate with any Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Swetnick’s allegations. She did say that she was “violated” by boys at one party, but couldn’t say whether Kavanaugh was involved. NBC News filed a public records request for related documents, but local officials said a response could take up to 30 days.

Ketterer remembers hearing Swetnick’s name on the news last week. Lindsey Graham of SC said.

Cornell Law School professor and Legal Insurrection founder William Jacobson told Fox News that “outlets like NBC News provide the fuel that feeds the anti-Kavanaugh firestorm” that is now sweeping the mainstream media.

Last month, NBC also published a story from an anonymous fourth accuser, based on an anonymous letter, which was also widely panned by journalism critics. “Their journalistic integrity has been destroyed over this case”. She claims that Kavanaugh’s friends would gang-rape young girls in bedrooms at these parties, and that she herself was gang raped at one such party in 1982. “You’re potentially looking at three years of an entire county’s worth of police reports you’d have to search through to see if we can find Miss Swetnick’s name or Judge Kavanaugh’s name in any police report”. “That’s the opposite of perpetuating it”.

“I understood this was being done for the goal of making girls more likely to engage in sexual acts and less likely to say, ‘No, ‘” the declaration stated. “When I asked he would not go into detail and said that I wouldn’t want her to work on my campaign”.

Veteran news executive Tom Bettag, a former “Nightline” executive producer and now a professor at the University of Maryland, said Snow did a good, challenging interview with other reporting to surround it. “Do within a week, report back to the Senate and we will move forward”.