{"id":376542,"date":"2018-09-08T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-documents-appear-to-show-kavanaugh-lied-under-oath-multiple-times\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:00:55","slug":"new-documents-appear-to-show-kavanaugh-lied-under-oath-multiple-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-documents-appear-to-show-kavanaugh-lied-under-oath-multiple-times\/","title":{"rendered":"New Documents Appear to Show Kavanaugh Lied Under Oath Multiple Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\u201cHow much perjury is too much perjury from a Supreme Court nominee?\u201d<\/p>\n

That was how one commentator <\/span>responded<\/a> <\/span>to a flurry of new documents and emails released on Thursday by <\/span>Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)<\/a> <\/span>and <\/span>Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) <\/a>that appear to show President Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath during hearings for his nomination to the US Court of Appeals in 2004 and 2006.<\/p>\n

In 2004 \u2014 after a <\/span>Senate sergeant-at-arms report found<\/a> <\/span>that Republican staffer Manuel Miranda had stolen confidential communications and documents from Democratic senators \u2014 Kavanaugh <\/span>told<\/a> <\/span>the Senate that he never received \u201cdocuments that appeared\u2026to have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff members.\u201d<\/p>\n

But new emails made public by Leahy on Thursday appear to show that Kavanaugh \u201cgot 8 pages of material taken verbatim from [the Vermont senator\u2019s] files, obviously written by Dem staff, labeled \u2018not [for] distribution.\u201d The stolen material detailed Democrats\u2019 efforts to oppose President George W. Bush\u2019s judicial nominees.<\/p>\n

\n

BREAKING: Kavanaugh testified he never received any docs that even \u201cappeared to \u2026 have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff.\u201d Well, he got 8 pages of material taken VERBATIM from my files, obviously written by Dem staff, LABELED \u201cnot [for] distribution\u201d. pic.twitter.com\/eFlIBZ0Z1W<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n

Never miss another story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2014 Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) September 6, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s confirmation hearing, Leahy <\/span>confronted Kavanaugh<\/a> <\/span>over the apparent contradiction between these emails and the judge\u2019s 2004 testimony, but Leahy said he was not permitted to make the emails public because they were deemed \u201ccommittee confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n

The documents were released on Thursday, however, and they show that Kavanaugh received an email that detailed information gathered by a \u201cmole for us on the left\u201d \u2014 an indication that the information was acquired…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow much perjury is too much perjury from a Supreme Court nominee?\u201d That was how one commentator responded to a flurry of new documents and emails released on Thursday by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that appear to show President Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath during hearings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}