5. At Kavanaugh's 2006 confirmation hearing, @SenatorLeahy asked whether Kavanaugh had seen, in his role as @WhiteHouse Staff Secretary, docs about "the president’s N.S.A. warrantless wiretapping program.” Transcript: http://bit.ly/2MWxm4p .
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16. What about Kavanaugh's latest testimony, in his
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17. This time around,
@SenatorLeahy pressed Kavanaugh "to say whether he had ever raised questions 'about the constitutional implications of a warrantless surveillance program' with Mr. Yoo in 2001," per@NYTimes.https://nyti.ms/2CtpfakShow this thread -
18. Kavanaugh said that "he could not 'rule anything out like that,' allowing that in the early days after [9/11], White House lawyers worked on many things before regular assignments were sorted out. But, he said, his answer in 2006 was about [Stellarwind]."
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19. So Kavanaugh's 2006 testimony was accurate; he didn't see Stellarwind docs because he wasn't authorized to do so. When asked a broader question this week about whether he had discussed surveillance more generally, he said he "couldn't rule it out."
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20. Far from constituting "perjury," Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony about NSA warrantless wiretapping/surveillance, in both 2006 and 2018, was truthful, accurate, and complete.
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