Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical & ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, govt & media.
It’s those controversial assoc'ns that should give members of the Senate & the American public serious pause.
Alex Azar -Sec HHS
Mark Paoletta-chief counsel to Pence Barbara Comstock-Congress
Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge-RWNJ Media
At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke
Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers.
#Kavanaugh was mentored by DC Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.
George Conway led a secretive group of RW lawyers — "the elves" — who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones.
...info was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh.
That critical flow of inside information allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair.
Ted & Brett had an unhealthy obsess'n w Clintons — especially Hil.
Ted was pushing Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton WH lawyer/Hil friend Vince Foster was murdered (committed suicide)
#Kavanaugh was pedaling the same garbage at Starr's office.
Detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's notes from the Starr Investig'n reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of info from the Starr investigation — as well as prev investigations — trying to legitimize wild RW conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them...
...any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago.
If he's confirmed, he'll have nearly 2 generations to impose it upon the rest of us.
One would think that someone with decades of experience in lying would be better at it.
A politically-diverse team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic between Alfa Bank & Trump Org in search of answers.
"MAX" and his colleagues asked not to be identified by name due to security/privacy.
JUNE 2016
news broke about DNC hack & a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert. Reports pointed at Russia, which suggested to most members that Ru intelligence was involved.
ICYMI...
That unauthorized helicopter flight that went down a few days ago...killing the Pootlovin senior Russian prosecutor linked to Veselnitskaya (of Trump Tower anti-Magnitsky Hillary dirt fame)
Two bullets 'were found in pilot's body' after helicopter crash which killed senior Putin prosecutor linked to lawyer who held Trump Tower meeting
The pilot involved in the helicopter crash was found with two bullets in his body.
Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan - a former MP and long-time ally of Putin - died when his AS-350 helicopter came down in Kostroma region northeast of Moscow on Wednesday.
Former Dean of Yale Law School:
Brett Kavanaugh Cannot Have It Both Ways politi.co/2pGXFx3 via @politico
For as long as Kavanaugh sits on the court, he will remain a symbol of partisan anger...behind the smiling face of judicial benevolence lies the force of an urgent will to power. No one... could possibly believe that Kavanaugh might actually be a detached and impartial judge.
Each and every Republican who votes for Kavanaugh, therefore, effectively announces that they care more about controlling the Supreme Court than they do about the legitimacy of the court itself.
Committee Democrats asked to immediately send transcripts to Mueller, who hasn’t been allowed to see them under Nunes’ rules. There’s good reason to believe many witnesses committed perjury or offered info relevant to the SC’s work.
Nunes opposed it, and it was voted down.
Committee Democrats then moved to have the transcripts released to the public immediately — after a 10-day intelligence community review — to avoid any selective release or other political manipulation.