Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has a few problems, not the least of which is that the FBI investigation he's hanging his Kavanaugh vote on is shaping up to be a total sham. Beyond that, there's this statement he made on CBS' 60 Minutes.
Q: If Judge Kavanaugh is shown to have lied to the Committee, nomination's over?FLAKE: Oh yes.
Well, guess what, Mr. Flake? He. Lied. Repeatedly. So, so many lies. He lied during his 2004 hearing to become a D.C. Circuit court judge, then lied in his repeated 2006 hearing for the same job (which he then got), and continued lying in his initial hearing for Supreme Court confirmation last month. And they weren’t just lies, but actual perjury in sworn testimony to the Senate to be on the nation's two highest courts. Those lies are big. They're about the things that happened when he was in the Bush administration and was helping craft policies and push through partisan judges.
Torture. Illegal surveillance. Document theft. Pursuing a right-wing judicial agenda. These are the things we know he has lied about in sworn testimony, just on the basis of the very thin set of documents that have been made public. There are tens of thousands more—something like 93 percent of his Bush administration record—that Republicans are still covering up. The potential breadth and scope of his perjuries that remain hidden by this document cover-up is mind-boggling.
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