Posted on 08/05/2018 10:33:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — By the beginning of 1998, Brett M. Kavanaugh seemed set: a Yale law degree, three judicial clerkships, including one with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and, less than a decade out of law school, a coveted partnership at Kirkland & Ellis, a prominent law firm with offices a block from the White House.
At just 32, Mr. Kavanaugh had wrapped up a three-year stint working for his mentor, Ken Starr, on the sprawling Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton. The inquiry was finally winding down, and Mr. Kavanaugh believed it was in some ways deeply flawed, telling an audience at Georgetown University Law Center, “It makes no sense at all to have an independent counsel looking at the conduct of the president.”
Then, just as he was starting at the law firm, he went back.
For nearly seven months, Mr. Kavanaugh, now President Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court, worked for Mr. Starr once again, despite his objections, helping to assemble the case that the president had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and obstructed justice by trying to cover it up. It was Mr. Kavanaugh who pressed Mr. Starr to aggressively question Mr. Clinton on the details of his sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and who drafted the section of Mr. Starr’s report to the House that laid out 11 possible grounds for Mr. Clinton’s impeachment.
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He was part of the Starr cover-up team, and should be rejected.
“He was part of the Starr cover-up team, and should be rejected.”
What was the cover up?
Oh BS.....
Honorable men do not do dishonorable things.
Unless the definition of “honor” has somehow changed.
Ken Starr did not “cover up” anything. However, he was stonewalled at many facets in seeking the truth, which included, but were not limited to, the very real treason that the Clinton Administration engaged in, as relates to selling secrets for personal gain to the Chinese Communists, and making underground deals with various factions of the Islamic revolutionary groups, stirring much unrest throughout the Middle East.
And not least of all, for fumbling so badly on any North Korean settlement at the time.
The “blue dress” was simply window dressing, and of no lasting importance in the scheme of things. It changed what should have been a criminal indictment that would have resulted in removal from office by Senate vote to a mere censure and slap on the wrist.
stockpirate claimed “cover up”.
How can anyone accuse Starr of covering up. We're seeing the same stalling, and obstruction by the FBI/DOJ today.
To clarify for those who have forgotten: the President was being sued for using the power of his office and government resources (as well as external entities) to punish those who had refused his advances, and to reward those who accepted them. Evidence came to light of long-standing abuses of his office to acquire sex from his government employees.
Monica Lewinsky was just one example of someone being rewarded with a government position after having an affair with him, about which he criminally* lied under oath in a deposition so that her reward of being offered federal jobs could not be correlated with the affair.
He was not prosecuted for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky
*While only citing Clinton for civil perjury, the judge detailed all of the conditions for extensive criminal perjury in her ruling.
It seems that Kavanaugh was just ahead of his time. He was an early #METOO warrior. How else do you describe a president receiving BJs from a 21 year old intern in the oval office. Kavanaugh seems like an early equivalent to Ronan Farrow
The Starr investigation was a cover-up in the sense that Clinton was guilty of far, far worse, and Starr was limited to looking at only his personal life. Misdirection.
Whenever anyone would ask about Chinese money, or anything serious, they would frown and say, that’s being handled by the DOJ. We can’t discuss it.
When Bush came into office, people asked about those mysterious DOJ investigations, and Bush said, its time to move on.
Which means, there were a lot of people aiding and abetting the Clinton cover-up.
Well said.
I think he is referring to Vince Foster
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Bush couldn’t have his best friends investigated or it may have led to more unpleasant things. Bushes have been such a disapointment.
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