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The Kavanaugh Documents: They’re Not About Me The Kavanaugh Documents: They’re Not About Me
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To the Editor:To the Editor:
In your Aug. 18 editorial “Why Hide Brett Kavanaugh’s Past?” you wrote that I “may well be named in many of the withheld documents,” insinuating that I have a self-interest in withholding documents that are being reviewed by a team of lawyers under my supervision as former President George W. Bush’s representative.In your Aug. 18 editorial “Why Hide Brett Kavanaugh’s Past?” you wrote that I “may well be named in many of the withheld documents,” insinuating that I have a self-interest in withholding documents that are being reviewed by a team of lawyers under my supervision as former President George W. Bush’s representative.
But as you know, we are reviewing documents only from 2001 to 2003, when Judge Kavanaugh was in the White House Counsel’s Office, which precedes my tenure at the White House by two years. I was a recently minted junior lawyer in New York City at the time.But as you know, we are reviewing documents only from 2001 to 2003, when Judge Kavanaugh was in the White House Counsel’s Office, which precedes my tenure at the White House by two years. I was a recently minted junior lawyer in New York City at the time.
I would have been flattered to be the subject of “many” White House documents, as you suggest, but it is highly unlikely.I would have been flattered to be the subject of “many” White House documents, as you suggest, but it is highly unlikely.
William A. BurckWashingtonThe writer served as deputy to Judge Kavanaugh in 2005 when he was staff secretary in the Bush White House. William A. BurckWashingtonThe writer served as deputy to Mr. Kavanaugh, then staff secretary in the Bush White House, in 2005.