Monday, August 17, 2020

Great subject matter for questioning. Too bad it won't happen.

The Democratic candidate for Vice-President was curiously inert when it came to prosecuting clerical rape in San Francisco and California when she was DA and Attorney General, respectively.

After [Vincent] Hallinan lost to Harris [in the DA race], the “fate of the investigation into Catholic priest abuse would dramatically change — and not for the better,” according to Schweizer. Harris quickly buried Hallinan’s abuse investigations: “Harris, who had been a sexual crimes prosecutor early in her career, moved in the opposite direction of Hallinan and worked to cover up the records.”

Harris cited protection of victims as her reason for not disclosing the records Hallinan had collected, but victims’ group dismissed that reason out of hand.

“Victims’ groups wanted the documents released and Harris was stopping it. They were outraged by her actions. Far from protecting victims, they argued, the cover-up was actually protecting the abusers by keeping their alleged crimes secret,” Schweizer writes. “ ‘They’re full of s–t,’ said Joey Piscitelli, the northwest regional director of Survivor Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the largest and most active victims’ group. ‘You can quote me on that. They’re not protecting the victims.’”

There's plenty more at the link, including the startling fact she never brought a single case involving a priest during her tenure in either office.

But don't expect our courtier media to ask such questions. 

They are, after all, trying to tell you that the person with the Senate's fourth-most-left-wing voting record is a "pragmatic moderate."

I've also heard enthusiasm about her mad debate skills--Tulsi Gabbard's campaign-wrecking blasts having gone to the memory hole.

Anyway, that's the American media for you in 2020: Memento meets Shattered Glass, 24/7.

Hat-tip to Don for the find.

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