Kavanaugh Denies Lying To Committee About Involvement In Bush Torture Program

So he’s restarted the clock on the statute of limitations.

“I was not read into that program. I was not read into that program. I was not read into that program.”

WTF does that even mean? Make him answer – did he have knowledge of, and was he involved in the torture program, contrary to his previous testimony?

He has no problem with lying. From a 2006 hearing:

Durbin continued, “And at the time of the nomination, what did you know about Mr. Haynes’s role in crafting the administration’s detention and interrogation policies?” To which Kavanaugh replied:

Senator, I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants, and so I do not have any involvement with that.

In fact, in 2002, Kavanaugh and a group of top White House lawyers discussed whether the Supreme Court would uphold the Bush administration’s decision to deny lawyers to American enemy combatants. Kavanaugh advised the group that the Supreme Court’s swing voter, Justice Anthony Kennedy, would probably reject the president’s assertion that the men were not entitled to counsel. Kavanaugh had worked as a clerk for Kennedy. That meeting was first reported in The Washington Post. NPR independently confirmed the details with multiple sources.