MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Kavanaugh proposed graphic questions for Bill Clinton during Starr probe
By Josh Gerstein @ Politico.com, Aug. 20, 2018
[....] Two days before Clinton testified to a grand jury via a video feed from the White House, Kavanaugh urged Starr and other lawyers on his staff to take a tough line regarding the president’s behavior, according to the memo released by the National Archives and Records Administration. The 33-year-old lawyer said the investigators had a truth-seeking function distinct from determining whether Clinton broke the law. The memo also is full of his moral judgment of the president’s conduct.
“The idea of going easy on him at the questioning is ... abhorrent to me," Kavanaugh wrote in the two-page memo, which was sent to Starr and all other attorneys on his staff on Aug. 15, 1998. “The President has disgraced his Office, the legal system, and the American people by having sex with a 22-year-old intern and turning her life into a shambles — callous and disgusting behavior that has somehow gotten lost in the shuffle. ... He has tried to disgrace you and this Office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush.” [....]
The memo goes on to list 10 questions he proposed for Clinton, six of which are explicit and several of which are extraordinarily graphic. Among the questions:
“If Monica Lewinsky says that on several occasions in the Oval Office area, you used your fingers to stimulate her vagina and bring her to orgasm, would she be lying?”
“If Monica Lewinsky says that on several occasions you had her give oral sex, made her stop, and then ejaculated into the sink in the bathroom of the Oval Office, would she be lying?” [....]