From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:40 PM To: paul krassner Subject: Re: deja' vu' by pk great On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:48 PM, paul krassner < <mailto > wrote: Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit =/b> I shall i=entify myself only as a female aide to a Republican senator. It is also relevant that I have long nurtured a keen interest in psycho-history, the process by which a nation's directi=n is interpreted as an extension of the psychological makeup of those individual= who govern it. =C2 Without going into specific detail, let me s=mply state that on October 5, 1991, I happened to hear part of a conversation among Judge=E2 now Supreme Court Justice—Clarence Thomas, Senator Orrin Hatch and Sena=or Alan Simpson. The three were meeting informally one week after the Judiciary Committee voted, first 7-7, then 13-1, to recommend the confirmation of Jud=e Thomas, and one day after the full Senate indicated that he would be=confirmed. =AO The conversation I happened to hear had to do w=th those charges brought by Anita Hill and ignored by the members of the committee, =oth Democratic and Republican. At that point in time I still thought this was a= appropriate response, because the alternative would have been to hold an executive session, and Judge Thomas would then have had no practical choice=but to resort to heavy denial. Now, however, these men were, in a jocular fashi=n, acknowledging the truth of what would turn out to be Professor Hill =99s allegations. =AO Senator Simpson was saying, "Y'=now, Clarence, I've seen some pretty raunchy porno movies in my time, but I never did see one where = lady was having sex with an animal." "=11 never forget it," Judge Thomas replied in his riveting sonorous tone. "They were in a barn. Except that the inside of the =arn was like a theater." =AO Senator Hatch interjected, "Summe= stock, eh? No pun intended" =AO "There was a stage at one end, =80 Judge T