Kavanaugh urged tough, explicit questions for Clinton in Lewinsky investigation

[JonLP24]

Two days before President Bill Clinton was questioned by a grand jury about his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky, Brett Kavanaugh, now President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, urged independent counsel Ken Starr not to go easy on the president, and provided Starr with a list of tough, explicit questions to ask.

Kavanaugh — who as a judge on the federal circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia has taken an expansive view of presidential power and prerogatives — at that time was “strongly opposed” to giving Clinton a “break” in his questioning.

In the Aug. 15, 1998, memo released by the National Archives Monday, Kavanaugh, then Starr’s associate counsel, suggested avenues of questions for Clinton, who at that point was denying that he had “sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” He later admitted that the allegation was true. Among Kavanaugh’s questions for Clinton:

“If Monica Lewinsky says that you inserted a cigar into her vagina while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/kavanaugh-urged-tough-explicit-questions-clinton-lewinsky-investigation-172155668.html

Kavanaugh’s Aug. 15, 1998, memo showed him to be harsher on Clinton than even some in Starr’s office. He wrote that Clinton had engaged in “callous and disgusting behavior.” Arguing fiercely for the power of the independent counsel’s office, Kavanaugh wrote that “it is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece.”

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The memo had the subject line: “Slack for the President?” It came after Starr’s office interviewed Lewinsky and learned many alleged details of the president’s relationship with the intern. Kavanaugh wrote that Clinton had turned Lewinsky’s life “into a shambles.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brett-kavanaugh-memo-detailed-explicit-questions-for-clinton/2018/08/20/c0854616-a488-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a9e6b182c890

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[shanny]

2. Shades of Larry "Wide Stance" Craig

"The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy – a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

They reveal themselves.. They can't help it.

[shraby]

3. Could this be a guide to the questions he needs to answer?