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Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit | shall identify myself only as a female aide to a Republican senator. It is also relevant that | have long nurtured a keen interest in psycho- history, the process by which a nation’ s direction is interpreted as an extension of the psychological makeup of those individuals who govern it. Without going into specific detail, let me simply state that on October 5, 1991, | happened to hear part of a conversation among Judge—now Supreme Court Justice—Clarence Thomas, Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator 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 Judge Thomas, and one day after the full Senate indicated that he wou/d be confirmed. The conversation | happened to hear had to do with those charges brought by Anita Hill and ignored by the members of the committee, both Democratic and Republican. At that point in time | still thought this was an 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 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015132