But there was no need to remind people Thursday that the dignified professional woman at the witness table was describing something from 36 years ago. Her emotions, including panic, seemed close to the surface. Like Hill, she had a purity to her manner and story that was luminous, an impressive contrast to all the dark obfuscations, self-serving political maneuvering and petty deceptions around her. Kavanaugh had seemed to dissemble a few times in his earlier testimony, including about his role in the case of the stolen Democratic documents in the Bush years and his role in the N.S.A.’s warrantless wiretapping program. Again treating the senators like idiots, he provided innocent meanings for clearly salacious terms used like “Devil’s Triangle.’’

Source: New York Times September 29, 2018 20:15 UTC