'Brett was involved': Inside Supreme Court nominee's work for Bill Clinton probe

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Ken Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton two decades ago was notoriously leaky.

By JOSH GERSTEIN 07/22/2018 06:50 AM EDT

President Donald Trump has waged war on leakers — but in nominating Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, the president has picked someone well-versed in the swampy art of off-the-record briefings and anonymous quotes.

Kavanaugh spent nearly four years working for Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel probe of President Bill Clinton two decades ago. A sampling of the Starr office’s internal files available at the National Archives indicate Kavanaugh helped craft aspects of Starr’s communications strategy and interacted directly with the news media himself.

Starr infamously took an expansive view of permissible contact with the media, allowing discussions about issues related to the ongoing investigation — disclosures that other prosecutors view as improper or ill-advised.

While Starr had spokespeople, “he also had attorneys like Kavanaugh contact people who might have information to come to the office and offer to guide the press about the work of the office,” said former Iran-Contra prosecutor John Barrett, now a law professor at St. John’s University.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/22/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bill-clinton-starr-investigation-735082

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Writer and businessman Steven Brill, who set off a firestorm in 1998 with a cover story in his magazine, Brill’s Content, on Starr’s alleged leaks to the press, said Kavanaugh needs to offer a more detailed account of his interactions with reporters during the Whitewater probe.

“If what he did was not improper, why didn’t he do it on the record? The point is they all knew it violated rule 6(e),” Brill said, referring to a federal court rule protecting grand jury secrets. “Brett was involved.”


Imagine that a Federalist Society member breaking the rules....................after all they hate rules...........

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[BigmanPigman]

1. I read that Kavanaugh if the least likely

SCOTUS nominee to be confirmed in 13 years. Feinstein has been gathering tons of info to grill him. What needs to happen is the decision must be put on hold as long as the Mueller investigation is ongoing. Of course that makes sense and is a far better argument for delaying a pick than McConnell used to hold off Garland. McConnell IS complicit and compromised...lock HIM up!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I hope you mean that he has a less likely chance than Harriet Miers.