[Rockingham]

Supposedly, Ken Starr had a review of the Vince Foster autopsy and evidence done by several of the country's leading medical examiners. They concluded that Vince Foster did commit suicide and that he was driven to it by Hillary Clinton's extraordinarily abusive behavior toward him for his inability to contain the scandal over her firing of the White House travel office staff and a belief that he had no way out that would not lead to a loss of income and stature and a future of embarrassing questions and comments.

If true, Starr's resolution of the Vince Foster case was objectively sound even though the course of the investigation was distorted by the decision to keep the experts' conclusions about Hillary Clinton's conduct secret. Kavanaugh no doubt was deeply involved in this, but I am hard put to think that it is a reason to keep him off the Supreme Court.

In suicide cases, law enforcement routinely suppresses embarrassing and disturbing details to protect families and associates. That is why suicide notes are rarely made public. Entirely apart from what one thinks of Hillary Clinton, such confidentiality helps to assure cooperation with law enforcement and spare survivors from guilt and recrimination. It also helps to avoid having suicide provide a basis for ill will and even a motive for suicide and murder.

Keep in mind that Vince Foster's family accepted the determination that he committed suicide. In spite of issues over witnesses and evidence, they likely accepted it because it was true.

[Ben Barrack]

EVEN IF suicide was rightly ruled (I don’t know how if Foster’s car wasn’t there), you point to Clintons involvement in A.) Driving him to it and B.) Hiding evidence.

In either case, Kavanaugh protected them.

DISQUALIFIED