this committee, on judicial nominations specifically is named barbara ledine. if that name is familiar to you in the context of brett kavanaugh's nomination, you might remember from his confirmation hearings that controversy over whether or not brett kavanaugh ever received documents when he worked in the bush white house that had been sto stolen from senate democrats. you might remember in that controversy there was a sort of smoking gun piece of evidence produced during the confirmation hearings, which showed that brett kavanaugh had, in fact, received documents stolen from democrats while he worked in the bush white house and he had to have known they were stolen, despite his assertions to the contrary under oath, in part because of what we could see in the document, which was sent to him and which brett kavanaugh forwarded from his white house e-mail account in 2003. this is the document where the subject line was literally, quote, spying. and the first line was, quote, i have a friend who is a mole for