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Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 01:48 PM Oct 2018

Lawsuits point to large trove of unreleased Kavanaugh White House documents

New details have emerged about potentially thousands of Brett Kavanaugh’s White House emails and other records related to the Senate hacking scandal from early in the George W. Bush administration and other controversial subjects that have not been disclosed to the Senate, according to Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee.

The undisclosed documents, which date from Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House, are set to be produced in coming weeks as a result of two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, one pursued by Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee and another by an outside privacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Release of the documents is still subject to White House approval and other consultations.

The Senate hacking scandal involved a Republican Judiciary Committee aide, Manny Miranda, who, according to an official investigation, infiltrated the electronic files of Democrats on the committee with the help of a co-conspirator, James Lundell, and passed the intelligence on to other senators, the White House, and friendly opinion columnists over a period of years. The pilfered material contained, among other things, Democrats’ research and prepared questions for judicial nominees.

With Kavanaugh facing a potential final confirmation vote over the weekend or early next week, the documents that are cleared for release by the FOIA lawsuits will likely emerge too late for senators to take them into account

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/lawsuits-point-large-trove-unreleased-kavanaugh-white-house-documents-202543065.html?__twitter_impression=true

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Lawsuits point to large trove of unreleased Kavanaugh White House documents (Original Post) Ellipsis Oct 2018 OP
I'm ready for a good read eleny Oct 2018 #1
Would this could have come out sooner. libdem4life Oct 2018 #2
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
2. Would this could have come out sooner.
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 02:03 PM
Oct 2018

Kind of like shutting the barn door after the cow has already gotten out. We've known about this issue for months. Call me cynical, but why couldn't these things have happened ...at least the requests...well before he was confirmed. I'm a Democrat...and sometimes I wonder why.

Maybe we can get an investigation after 2018 by the House. I acknowledge its hard being the minority party but we need a new Speaker, IMO.

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