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Judge Brett Kavanaugh sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Several news articles, including those here, here, and here, mention him as a leading contender to be nominated by President Donald Trump to replace retiring justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. The nomination of Kavanaugh would be ironic, given candidate Trump's disparaging comment about a death investigation in which Kavanaugh played a major role.  On July 20, 1993, Hillary Clinton's former law partner, and then deputy White House counsel for President Bill Clinton, Vincent Foster, was found dead in Virginia's Fort Marcy Park.  The official...

Clinton White House advisor and longtime friend Vince Foster, Jr. reportedly committed suicide in 1993. His passing was the highest ranking government official’s death since President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Hillary Clinton waited 30 hours before telling her own husband about the suicide note left behind by Foster!Donald Trump suggested Foster’s death was “absolutely murder.”The Washington Post reported: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is reviving some of the ugliest political chapters of the 1990s with escalating personal attacks on Bill Clinton’s character — centered on past accusations of sexual assault — amid...

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s lawyer for the email investigation has a glaring conflict-of-interest in the case: he was an Obama administration “point person” on Benghazi who dealt with classified information and exchanged redacted emails with Hillary Clinton. Miguel Rodriguez of the Washington law firm Bryan Cave is part of Abedin’s big-money legal team and is already handling communications with the government on her behalf during the scandal. But Rodriguez brings some personal baggage to his role as Abedin’s counsel ... Before joining Bryan Cave, Rodriguez served as deputy assistant secretary at Hillary Clinton’s State Department; then he was...

Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year. The documents also show that one key State Department official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the Obama administration and Clinton. The documents were produced under court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Judicial...

Wife accused in murder plot Man dies in shooting; alleged hitmen arrested By CELINA ALVARADO LAREDO MORNING TIMES In less than 24 hours, Laredo Police arrested the alleged gunman purportedly connected to the kidnapping and shooting death of a Laredo man Wednesday. Authorities subsequently uncovered an alleged kidnapping and murder plot that led to two more arrests in connection to the same crime. Police suspect the victim's wife took a direct role in her husband's killing. The victim, identified as 28-year-old Alberto Espinoza Castaneda, was found dead behind the wheel of his white 1986 Isuzu pickup truck Wednesday at the...

The new secretary general of the Organization of American States resigned yesterday because of accusations that he took a bribe in 2001 while president of Costa Rica. In a letter to the 34-nation organization, Miguel Angel Rodriguez denied he did anything wrong. "With humility, pain and anguish, I ask you and your countries for forgiveness for making you endure this difficult period," Rodriguez said in his letter, which was read to OAS members here yesterday by Costa Rica's ambassador to the OAS, Luis Guardia. Rodriguez wrote that he was leaving because he did not want to expose the OAS to...

The Starr-O'Connor legacy Posted: August 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Sometimes Republicans do more harm to America than Democrats ever could by themselves. Kenneth Starr and Sandra Day O'Connor are two prime examples. Starr is best known as the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton's crimes as president. As such, he set himself up as a foil for Democrats – a kind of pit bull who would stop at nothing to bring Clinton to justice. The truth? He was either the most incompetent prosecutor in the history of the country or complicit in the cover-up of those...