Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a sexually explicit memo 'in a fog of sleep deprivation' during the Starr investigation
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Kavanaugh wrote a sexually graphic memo while sleep deprived during the Starr probe, according to The Atlantic.
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A former colleague of Kavanaugh's told The Atlantic that the judge later "regretted" its tone.
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The memo had a list of explicit questions for former President Clinton about Monica Lewinsky.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a memo with a list of sexually explicit questions for former President Bill Clinton during "a fog of sleep deprivation" and later regretted how it came across, a former colleague of Kavanaugh's told The Atlantic.
Kavanaugh cut his teeth in the conservative legal world on special prosecutor Ken Starr's investigation into the Clinton investigation after a series of clerkships. The wide-ranging probe scrutinized the Clintons' business dealings in Arkansas and Clinton's lies about his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky that eventually led to his impeachment.
The August 15, 1998 memo, which resurfaced during Kavanaugh's 2018 confirmation hearings, was titled "Slack for the president?"
In it, Kavanaugh expressed outrage about Clinton's behavior in office, writing, "the president has disgraced his office, the legal system, and the American people by having sex with a 22-year-old intern and turning her life into shambles," calling it "callous and disgusting behavior."
The memo included a suggested list of sexually graphic questions for Clinton like "If Monica Lewinsky said you inserted a cigar into her vagina, while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?" and, "If Monica Lewinsky says that you had phone sex with her on approximately 15 occasions, would she be lying?"
The former coworker, Robert Bittman, told The Atlantic's McKay Coppins for a profile of the justice published Thursday that Kavanaugh later "expressed regret" for the memo's "tone." Bittman also told McKay the memo was written while Kavanaugh was sleep deprived.
Kavanaugh's work on the hard-charging investigation cemented his status as a respected conservative lawyer and a team player.
Colleen Covell, a woman who went on a date with Kavanaugh while he was working on the Starr probe, told The Atlantic that at the date, Kavanaugh got drunk and began ranting about the Clintons, including saying, "they're total crooks!" and "I can't believe you voted for them!"
Kavanaugh's work on the Starr investigation landed him a stint in the White House counsel's office and then, 12 years on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Who is he to point fingers and sit in judgment?
Here's the memo. Send the kids out of the room before you read page 2.
kavanaugh8.15.98.pdf (archives.gov)
My point? Once a freak, always a freak.
I wonder if anyone has thought to put the original memo under a black light?
He was acting as a prosecutor at the time. It was literally his job to point fingers.
This earthshaking revelation has about as much relevance as Christine Blasey Ford's tortured 'credible' drunken memories. Clinton, and his multiple trips on the 'Lolita Express' with his fellow deviant Jeffrey Epstein, is the real freak
Isn't there something you can take for your CDS?
So a memo from 1998 that was discovered a couple of years ago during his confirmation hearing (which means they knew about it then and it didn't prevent him from being confirmed to SCOTUS) is news again? The only reason I can see is to be used as ammunition for a push to add more justices to SCOTUS in an effort to pack the court.
hat was discovered a couple of years ago during his confirmation hearing
Yes, given their hysterics yesterday, it's pretty funny that this thread isn't overrun with our progressive members calling it old news. But that's not surprising at all.
Wait a sec. So Bill Clinton does something wildly inappropriate and Kavanaugh is the “bad guy” for thinking up specific questions about the behavior? He was working for the Special Prosecutor at the time. It was literally his job to do that.
And this is controversial 20+ years later? Unbelievable. People have their priorities way out of wack.