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“NBC News sat on exculpatory evidence exonerating Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the ludicrous allegations that he had participated in gang rapes when he was in high school.

Why? Because the “news value was limited,” NBC reporter Kate Snow explained this weekend.

Yes, really.

Snow authored an Oct. 25 article highlighting then-unreported inconsistencies in a signed declaration from a woman whom celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti claimed could corroborate his client Julie Swetnick’s allegation that she witnessed Kavanaugh drugging and sexually abusing girls when he was just 15 years old. ...

By the time we were able to find the woman independently from Mr. Avenatti, who declined to give us her full legal name and phone number, and fully report and vet her story, the Kavanaugh confirmation process was over and the news value was limited,” Snow tweeted this weekend [emphasis added].

I’m sorry, what?

They determined there was “limited” “news value” to a story showing a woman and her attorney almost certainly engaged in a conspiracy to defame and derail the confirmation hearing of a now-seated Supreme Court justice? Snow and her team didn’t think the differences between the Oct. 2 sworn statement issued by Avenatti versus what the second woman told NBC on Sept. 30 were worth reporting at the time?