More of Kavanaugh’s Starr Investigation Records Become Public
Total public records exceeds levels for Kagan Nomination
WASHINGTON – The Senate
Judiciary Committee today released roughly 10,000 pages of material from Judge
Brett Kavanaugh’s work in the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC). The
total volume of publicly available Executive Branch material for this
nomination is now more than 176,000 pages, exceeding the volume of similar
material available for the committee’s consideration of Justice Kagan.
The
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) produced
the records to the committee over the weekend and made them
public today. In this production, NARA has approved 9,809 pages for public
release, and is withholding 2,540 pages in full or in part in pursuant to
applicable Freedom of Information Act exemptions. The production to the
committee includes:
Nomination
material is being posted HERE as it becomes available.
The
Chairman’s team has already reviewed all of the documents provided to the
committee by President Bush as well as NARA’s initial production of nearly
10,000 pages of OIC documents, and has nearly completed its review of NARA’s
most recent production of OIC documents. That’s in addition to reviewing
other public material, including more than 10,000 pages of the judicial
opinions that Judge Kavanaugh wrote or joined in his 12 years of service on the
D.C. Circuit and more than 17,000 pages of material Judge Kavanaugh submitted to the committee in response to its bipartisan
questionnaire.
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