Kavanaugh, Conservatism, and the Clinton Cover-Ups - America's Survival

Kavanaugh, Conservatism,
   and the Clinton Cover-Ups
By Cliff Kincaid – September 25, 2018

The push to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been dogged by one scandal after
another. It was supposed to be an easy confirmation process because he knew what to
say and how to say it to the liberals. He told them abortion and gay rights were “settled
law.” But he offered the left a target-rich environment that has tainted not only his
reputation but his Catholic education and the conservative movement.

        “I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school
                            or for many years thereafter,” Kavanaugh says.

Now, in a bizarre twist, Kavanaugh has reportedly retained high-powered liberal
attorney Beth Wilkinson to help him fight the sexual assault charges. She represented
four Hillary Clinton staffers during the investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private
email server while she was Secretary of State. “By tapping Wilkinson, the Clinton
confidants have selected someone with deep ties to Washington politics and the DOJ
[Department of Justice],” reported Politico. “The 53-year-old wife of former ‘Meet the
Press’ host David Gregory is a Clinton donor and Democratic contributor, according to
Federal Election Commission filings.” Her firm, Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz, specializes in
“winning high-stakes trials.”

The reported hiring of Wilkinson by Kavanaugh remains mysterious. “Wilkinson did not
respond to a request for comment…” reported the National Law Journal. “Her firm,
Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz declined to comment. White House spokesman Raj Shah,
who has overseen communications for Kavanaugh’s nomination, also declined to
comment.”

Most of this could have been avoided if President Trump had nominated a good
conservative pro-life woman to the Supreme Court without Kavanaugh’s baggage in the
Vincent Foster murder cover-up case.

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In contrast to Kavanaugh, who calls Roe v. Wade “settled law” and pandered to pro-
abortion Senators, Judge Amy Coney Barrett believes the ruling is constitutionally and
morally questionable. She was associated with the University of Notre Dame’s “Faculty
for Life” group and was reportedly on President Trump’s short list for the Supreme
Court. But she was shunted aside because Kavanaugh, a Washington insider, was
supposedly a conservative nominee who could be easily confirmed.

We were told that Barrett, a wife, mother, and professor, would have been tougher to
confirm. However, this fight would have offered the public an alternative to the notion
that the strident left-wing feminism of former ACLU counsel and current Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg represents American women.

Instead of fighting for a pro-life mother like Barrett, conservatives are being told
that they have to confirm a nominee who is openly discussing his sexual
activities in high school. If Kavanaugh wins, strangely enough, the left wins, too.
The left will make an alleged would-be rapist into the face of the conservative
movement.

Even if Kavanaugh makes it to the court, Ronald A. Krotoszynski Jr., a professor at the
University of Alabama School of Law, argues that Kavanaugh could be impeached. For
the liberals, the Kavanaugh nomination could be the gift that keeps on giving.

“I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school
or for many years thereafter,” Kavanaugh told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum in
an interview which aired on Monday night. It was a preview of his public testimony.

Rather than treat the nation to a horrifying spectacle over sex and drinking in high
school and college, Kavanaugh could withdraw his name, remain on the federal bench
as a judge, and combat the charges on his own. Trump could easily pick an honest and
truly conservative replacement, such as Judge Barrett.
The Kavanaugh Deception

In addition to his pro-abortion statements, the record shows that Kavanaugh covered-up
for the Clintons (in the Vincent Foster case) and ruled for Barack Hussein Obama on
matters involving Obamacare and the massive surveillance powers of the National
Security Agency (NSA). But leaders of most conservative groups jumped on the
bandwagon, with one telling me that I went off the “Deep End” by questioning his

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conservative credentials. All that we did at America’s Survival, Inc. was cite the views of
conservative critics familiar with Kavanaugh’s real record.

In the latest crisis, which caught many conservatives by surprise, Kavanaugh has
forcefully confronted and contradicted the sexual assault allegations from Christine
Ford, who attended Holton-Arms School, a private preparatory school in Bethesda,
Maryland. She claims to have been assaulted at a party with Kavanaugh and Mark
Judge. Some classmates defend Kavanaugh. But Mark Judge wrote, Wasted: Tales of
a Genx Drunk, and has now lawyered up. He says he has no knowledge of the alleged
incident but his value as a character witness is clearly lacking.

Mark Judge’s other book, God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic
Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling, may be just as damaging to Kavanaugh. It
compares aspects of his Jesuit education to a New Age encounter group. “Although
Georgetown Prep has a golden reputation as a Catholic school,” Mark Judge wrote, “it
was actually anything but Catholic by the time I got there in the 1980s.” He wrote about
the influence of sex and drugs on the high school students.
The accusation against Kavanaugh may be a last-minute dirty trick, but it’s difficult to
see the public value of the judge surviving the scrutiny of his days in high school and
college as a party boy. Yet, Kavanaugh appears to be prepared to appear in a public
setting and talk about his drinking habits. He comes to this week’s hearing with his own
memory, as well as teenage social calendars from the 1980s that somehow clear him of
attendance at the party in question. But his year book shows that he was treasurer of
the “Keg City Club,” among other questionable references.
Meanwhile, Ford comes with the results of a lie detector test and notes from a therapy
session on the assault.

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Members of the conservative establishment seem determined to back his bid for the
Supreme Court. One of Kavanaugh’s friends, Ed Whelan, even published a series of
comments saying the sexual assault on Ford was carried out by someone else at
Georgetown Prep who looked like Kavanaugh! Whelan is the president of a group that
carried the word “ethics” in its name -- the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). He
is also a blogger for National Review whose tweets on the mistaken identity theory have
been pulled. His admittedly “appalling and inexcusable” error, which included naming
the other person and running a photograph of him, has resulted in his “leave of
absence” from running the think tank. His victim could sue for defamation. In another
twist, the person Whelan named as the likely villain appears to have signed a letter
vouching for Kavanaugh’s character.

Leonard A. Leo, a member of the EPPC board, is executive vice president of the
Federalist Society, the group that recommended Kavanaugh.

Referring to the conservative legal establishment, including White House counsel Don
McGahn, Politico reported, “White House aides and allies who encouraged President
Donald Trump to choose him [Kavanaugh] for the highest court have a lot to lose.” They
have already lost.

Public Relations Disaster

To make matters worse, a powerful conservative public relations firm, CRC Public
Relations, has been implicated in the Ed Whelan debacle. Garrett Ventry, who served
as a communications aide to the Judiciary committee chaired by Senator Chuck
Grassley, has reportedly resigned from Grassley’s staff as well as CRC Public
Relations. NBC News reported that Ventry was previously let go from the office of North
Carolina House Majority Leader John Bell after parts of his résumé were found to have
been embellished, and because he faced an allegation of sexual harassment from a
female employee of the North Carolina General Assembly's Republican staff.

So Kavanaugh was being defended against sexual misconduct allegations by
someone accused of the same thing. How can it get any worse?

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CRC Public Relations feeds information to Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean
Hannity. Now it’s part of a public relations disaster that threatens the honor and integrity
of the conservative movement.

“Congratulations to President Trump on his decision to nominate D.C. Circuit judge
Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” Ed Whelan had written on July 9. “I very
much look forward to Justice Kavanaugh.” A former law clerk to the late Justice Antonin
Justice Scalia, Whelan lacked basic common sense and decency, using questionable
tactics to defend someone he claimed was clean. These are the tactics of the left.

                                           Garrett Ventry

None of them wants to address Kavanaugh’s mishandling of the Vince Foster case, a
far more serious matter involving the mysterious death of the former Deputy Counsel in
the Bill Clinton administration. They understand the Democrats don’t want to talk about
it, either. So, both sides have come to a gentlemen’s agreement on ignoring the Foster
scandal in a public hearing.

Confirm Kavanaugh, Lose Congress

As of this writing, it appears the Republicans are going for broke on Kavanaugh,
a plan with political repercussions that may overshadow the great job President
Trump has done on the economy. Trump may get him narrowly confirmed and
then lose the House and Senate. That means no more conservatives confirmed to
the Supreme Court and other courts.

“Aided by fellow Republicans in the Senate,” notes a Reuters dispatch, “President
Donald Trump is rapidly filling vacancies on U.S. appeals courts, moving some that had
liberal majorities closer to conservative control…” But that was before the latest
development in the Kavanaugh debacle. Trump’s effort to reverse former President
Barack Hussein Obama’s legacy of “permanent revolution” by stacking the courts with
“progressive” judges could come to an end.

According to a Fox News poll, 40 percent of voters would confirm Kavanaugh, while 50
percent oppose him. These figures can only get worse as the Kavanaugh hearings get
underway and Trump’s Supreme Court nominee tries to explain away his youthful

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indiscretions and escapades. Even the Jesuits have turned on Kavanaugh, with one
citing Kavanaugh’s joke, “what happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown
Prep,” as evidence of “a toxic understanding” of Catholic brotherhood.

Meanwhile, feminist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg figures to go down in history as a
“women’s rights” icon. CNN is already showing “RBG,” on “the incredible life and legal
legacy” of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while the film, On the Basis of Sex, starring
Felicity Jones as Ginsburg, is being released this December.

Many Republicans will probably join in the celebration. After all, despite having what the
late conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly called “a shocking paper trail that betrayed her
as a radical, doctrinaire feminist,” Ginsburg was confirmed by the Senate in 1993 in a
96-3 vote.

     Cliff Kincaid, Hugh Turley, and John Clarke briefed reporters at the National Press Club about
                                 Kavanaugh’s role in the Foster cover-up.

Kavanaugh Hires Clinton Attorney

On a recent edition of America’s Survival TV, anti-corruption activist Garland Favorito
said he believes there is a “Deep State chess match” being played by President Trump
and Senate Democrats at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. “As Republicans and

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Democrats exchange barbs on how wonderful or terrible Brett Kavanaugh’s decisions
will be as a U.S. Supreme Court Judge, neither group of senators will have the courage
to discuss an elephant in the committee room concerning Judge Kavanaugh’s
background,” noted Favorito in a column on his nomination. “Kavanaugh conducted an
investigation into the death of Vincent Foster and concluded his death was a suicide
despite overwhelming evidence Foster was murdered.” This is what makes
Kavanaugh’s hiring of an attorney associated with Hillary Clinton staffers so interesting.

One of my old columns, from 2004, titled, “Bipartisan Cover-Ups – From Vince Foster to
Anthrax,” had argued that “both political parties would prefer for their own reasons not to
pursue the truth” in certain matters.

In the Foster case, which reached the Supreme Court, attorney Allan Favish argued in a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for access to photos of Vincent Foster’s dead body,
which was discovered in Ft. Marcy Park outside of Washington, D.C. in 1993. Flawed
government investigations, including the one conducted by Kavanaugh under the
auspices of Independent Counsel Ken Starr, declared it a suicide, but the photos could
have helped prove that it was murder.

The Ultimate Cover-Up

All nine Justices, in a ruling delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy, ruled against
disclosure and the right to know. It was Kennedy whose legacy was “securing liberty,”
Kavanaugh had said when his nomination as announced. His legacy actually included
gay rights, abortion rights, and the Foster cover-up.

Alluding to President Trump’s own remark that the Foster investigation was “fishy,”
Favish recently wrote, “President Trump should find somebody to nominate who has
fidelity to the rule of law, the relevant facts, and the United States Constitution, but who
refuses to conduct ‘fishy’ investigations that misrepresent the facts to the American
people and make a mockery of the rule of law.”

The Bush Administration, for which Kavanaugh worked, had argued in favor of
keeping the Foster photos from the public, saying their release would cause pain

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to the Foster family. What the government -- Republicans and Democrats -- really
feared is that the photos would expose flaws in the suicide finding.

It all makes you wonder about the back-and-forth in the sexual assault matter being a
sideshow. It appears there are some matters that the American people do not have a
right to know about. These concern the deaths of high-level officials such as Vincent
Foster and national security disasters such as the post-9/11 anthrax attacks (a case
bungled by then-FBI director and now Russia-gate prosecutor Robert S. Mueller). And
Kavanaugh is right in the middle of one of them – the Foster case.

The evidence that Foster was murdered has increased as time has passed. It’s the case
that won’t die. It will survive whatever happens to Kavanaugh’s bid for the Supreme
Court.

                      Kavanaugh’s mentor Justice Kennedy ruled that the
                        Foster crime scene photos could be withheld.

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