Kavanaugh Was In The Loop on (Broader) Precursor to John Yoo's Stellar Wind Memos

BRETT KAVANAUGH WAS IN THE LOOP ON (BROADER) PRECURSOR TO JOHN YOO’S STELLAR WIND MEMOS
September 5, 2018/0 Comments/in EO 12333 /by emptywheel


Patrick Leahy just had two key interactions with Brett Kavanaugh. In the first, he made it clear that Kavanaugh had received emails Manny Miranda stole from Democrats, including Leahy himself, while working at the White House.

In the second, he asked Kavanaugh whether he still stood by his claim not to have been involved in the authorization for Stellar Wind. Kavanaugh almost immediately reverted to the dodge that George Bush used when denying he had ignored FISA — referring to just a subset of the program, for which the Bush White House invented the term “Terrorist Surveillance Program.

But Leahy persisted, asking specifically about this document (see page 13; significantly, Steven Bradbury left the document off a FOIA Vaughn Index about documents pertaining to the “TSP”).



From the context, it’s clear that Kavanaugh was in the loop on this document, even if he wasn’t on the later documents.




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