Aide Denies Knowing About Memos

[kskiska]

Bush Nominee Says White House Found Out From Media

No one at the White House knew about Democratic memos on judicial nominees being taken from Senate computers by GOP Senate aides, one of President Bush's lawyers told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.

"I don't know of anyone who was aware of this matter until we heard about it through the media," said Brett Kavanaugh, who serves as Bush's assistant and staff secretary. He was testifying before the panel at his confirmation hearing after being named a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Senate Democrats have complained that two of committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch's aides intruded into their computer files on judicial nominations and distributed them to Republican groups. On Monday, the Justice Department asked David Kelley, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to investigate and determine whether a crime had been committed.

Before Kavanaugh was named an assistant to Bush, he was one of the president's lawyers working on getting judicial nominations through the Senate.

more…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47649-2004Apr27.html

[hang a left]

1. You know what I think?

I think Kavanaugh is a effing liar. And now he is US Appeals Court Judge.

""I don't know of anyone who was aware of this matter until we heard about it through the media,"

also

"Before Kavanaugh was named an assistant to Bush, he was one of the president's lawyers working on getting judicial nominations through the Senate."

[MGKrebs]

2. aware of what matter?

Aware that someone had hacked into the computer? Or just aware that y'all happened to know the Dem strategy and research before most of the Dems did?

Sounds a lot like Bush and 9/11; just because somebody TOLD me stuff doesn't mean I UNDERSTOOD it.

I've never been religious, and I disgust myself to even say this, but I hope there is a hell for these people.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Since lying under oath is a time honored tradition for Republicans,

we ought to dispense with the swearing in and hook them up to lie detectors.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. "we heard about it through the media" - WH out of the DC loop, I guess.

That's not hard to believe considering their predilection for willful ignorance and pre-conceived notions.