Senator Patrick Leahy: Kavanaugh committed perjury lying about stolen documents

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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., told reporters Monday in Burlington he believes that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath during his confirmation hearings.

When asked if he thought Kavanaugh lied under oath, Leahy responded, "I want the rest of the records. I wonder why they are hiding 90 percent of his records because they would show
whether he has or not. I feel he has."

Leahy is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that on Friday sent the nomination to the full Senate on a party line vote. "I've never seen anything like this," Leahy said of the
confirmation process that will continue this week with an FBI investigation into allegation of sexual misconduct against the Trump nominee. According to Leahy, the scope of that 
investigation requested by the committee "will have no restrictions." 

Leahy said on Monday that he believed Kavanaugh gave "misleading testimony" when questioned about handling information the senator says were stolen from Democrats, including
himself. 

"These are emails and tapes stolen from Democratic members on the Senate Judiciary Committee," Leahy said. As the Washington Post reports, "Leahy’s charge stems from an
infamous episode between 2001 and 2003 when a Republican counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Manuel Miranda, learned that Democrats on the panel had put documents
on a computer server shared with Republicans. Miranda said in an interview that he read them to learn about the party’s strategy on judicial nominations coming before the
committee."

Leahy questioned Kavanaugh about the documents in 2004 during his confirmation hearing as a federal appeals court judge, and again in 2006, during his successful bid for a seat on
the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. At both hearings, Kavanaugh said he learned about how Miranda obtained the documents from news reports. In September, when Sen. Lindsey O.
Graham, R-S.C., asked if he knew he was dealing with stolen property, Kavanaugh answered, "no."

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. released a statement Saturday also drilling down on Kavanaugh's honesty. "A fundamental question the FBI can help answer is whether Judge Kavanaugh has
been truthful with the committee. This goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court," Sanders wrote in the statement.

In other news about Kav's honesty, he said he had no help getting into Yale when he can be classed as a legacy student since his grandfather attended Yale also.