Now Senate Democrats are ­exploring whether Kavanaugh crossed a line in his private communications with outsiders and revealed grand-jury testimony related to Foster’s suicide or other matters then under scrutiny in Starr’s wide-ranging investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The recordings suggest that Starr’s top deputies referred Moldea to Kavanaugh for answers to questions about the Foster matter. He later returned to the independent counsel’s office to work on other aspects of the Clinton investigation. In February 1998, Starr’s office filed 96 declarations from past and present employees denying under threat of perjury that they had any involvement with illegal leaks related to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. His findings, Johnson wrote, would help her determine whether any members of Starr’s office had in fact violated federal rules prohibiting the disclosure of grand-jury material.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2018 20:48 UTC