Posted on 05/06/2019 1:35:58 PM PDT by TigerClaws
LAS VEGAS — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh got what he deserved when he was accused in his confirmation hearing of sexual assault — because of his role in investigating the Clintons in the 1990s, former President Bill Clinton suggested.
"He didn't have any problem making us put up with three years of Vince Foster nonsense that was a total charade," Clinton, 72, said Sunday during a joint appearance with his wife Hillary at the Park Theater in Las Vegas during the last stop in the 10-event "An Evening With the Clintons” speaking tour.
A childhood friend of Bill Clinton, Foster, 48, became a deputy White House counsel in Clinton's White House in 1993 after being a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., where Hillary Clinton was a colleague. In July 1993 his body was found in Fort Marcy Park in Northern Virginia with a single gunshot wound to the mouth.
investigation by independent counsel Robert Fiske concluded in June 1994 that Foster had committed suicide. That was the same conclusion reached by several other investigations, but Kavanaugh critics have accused the future justice of dabbling in the conspiracy theories that swirled after Foster's death.
In early 1995, however, Kavanaugh offered his boss, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, the legal rationale to broaden his Whitewater investigation to include the Foster death. Kavanaugh, then 30, argued that the possibility Foster might have been murdered gave Starr the right to delve more deeply.
We are currently investigating Vincent Foster’s death to determine, among other things, whether he was murdered in violation of federal criminal law,” Kavanaugh wrote to Starr in a March 24, 1995 memo. “[I]t necessarily follows that we must have the authority to fully investigate Foster’s death.”
The new Foster inquiry, led by Kavanaugh, gave succor to conspiracy theorists, boosted Kavanaugh's reputation as a hard-charging Republican lawyer, and allowed Starr to continue investigating Bill Clinton, eventually leading him to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
After a three-year investigation, Kavanaugh concluded in 1997 that Foster had indeed killed himself.
Bill Clinton argued in Las Vegas that all this meant Kavanaugh had no moral authority to complain about being hit with unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations from his high school days. Kavanaugh vehemently denied claims by Christine Blasey Ford stretching back to the early 1980s, when they both attended private high schools in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
After days of angry Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that delved into Kavanaugh's personal life, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court by the narrowest margin since the 1880s.
Clinton said Kavanaugh's behavior harkened back to the notorious "red-baiting" lead lawyer and political adviser to Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis., in the 1950s, Roy Cohn — who went on the represent Donald Trump in the 1970s and was known as a master of innuendo. Clinton said Trump and his family have "been doing that for decades in business and other contexts."
The Clintons are such bores. Constantly relitigating the past. Constantly trying to settle scores. Why can’t these two old fools just enjoy their retirement? Gerald Ford may not have been our greatest president, but there’s something to be said for a guy who says, “Screw politics. I’m just going to play golf for the last 20 years of my life.”
SOMEBODY HAD BETTER GET BALSEY FORD INDICTED FOR FALSE ACCUSATIONS/PERJURY!!
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I remember a number of criminal referrals after that hearing. Of course nothing happened to anyone.
I remember a Senate committee under D’Amato looking into it and raising a lot of questions with the case. The Fiske investigation was obviously laughable.
So that prompted the Starr investigation into Foster’s death in order to smooth everything over and definitively pronounce it a suicide. The one lawyer, Rodriguez, who wanted to investigate the many anomalies in the evidence was forced out.
The GOP-e rewarded Kavanaugh and Azar with career advancement. Rodriguez was sent back to the US Attorney’s office in Sacramento.
Starr recently was quoted saying some nonsense about Hillary having hounded poor Vince into committing suicide by berating him in the White House a week earlier. Problem is, Hillary was away on a three-week trip to Asia during that time she was supposedly in the White House berating Vince.
Why now this spin? Is the uniparty afraid Trump or Barr are going to turn over some rocks here?
BJ didn’t KILL Kavanaugh.
Kenneth Starr thought Hillary Clinton prompted Vince Foster’s suicide — but left out of final report https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kenneth-starr-thought-hillary-clinton-prompted-vince-fosters-suicide-but-left-out-of-final-report
Nice, wish I had seen yours first.
Wow, hold a grudge much? Is he saying that the Dems intentionally put Kavanaugh through Hell as payback. Or just that Karma is a bitch?
Ken Starr was pwned by our domestic enemies.
Does he really know what he just admitted?
I still don’t believe Foster committed suicide. Never will................
Vince Foster was a troubled man who unfortunately fell into the Clinton vortex in Washington. He suffered from depression prior to his suicide and was severely affected by the Travelgate scandal firings that smeared his friend William Kennedy. Without medical intervention he eventually succumbed to his depression and committed suicide. All this happened well before Brett Kavanaugh had anything to do with investigating the Clintons. Trying to tie him to the Foster suicide tragedy is both despicable and typical for the Clintons.
There is no low to which they will not sink................
They can still have people “eliminated”.
Evil apparently just won’t die.
He actually told this to the 16 audience members?
As I remember, one account claimed that someone intentionally dropped the computer with the hard drive operating which damaged the disc(s). Apparently, no data was recovered from it.
Slowly we are beginning to see the REAL Bill Clinton.
Angry, controlling and vindictive.
This alone might be the reason why the GOP became useless for almost 25 years.
How it is this lovely couple isn’t burning together in hell right now?
What kind of universal joke IS it that they can just continue to run around, being obnoxious corrupt assholes ... seemingly until the end of time?
Add the fags Obamas’s.
May the turds of a thousand flies rest there also.
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