FWIW, one objection I always had to the Anita Hill thing was that it began with an accusation made by someone who wanted to remain anonymous. It's harsh but honest -- why make it at all? I thought the Democratic staffer who talked to Hill should have closed her notebook and replied: if you won't be identified in public, this conversation is over -- for YOUR sake. You can't charge a SCOTUS nominee with something like this and remain anonymous -- period. But instead, she took Hill's story -- and Democrats leaked it to the media: ka-BOOM.
So I want to speak up for Feinstein. She accepted that Ford wanted to keep her name out of it, until Ford changed her mind. He said/she said IS precisely how this should be resolved, with Senators voting whom they believe.
BTW -- being Democrats, they are missing the key vulnerability in Kavanaugh's defense, that the other guy Ford said was in the room (Mark Judge), ALSO needs to be called as a witness and put under oath. He will say that he doesn't recall the incident.
Then he should be asked about his memoir of being a blackout drunk in high school AND -- under the penalties of perjury -- what being a blackout drunk means.