The documents on racial profiling released by Cory Booker

The cache of emails released by Booker’s office includes several with the subject line “racial profiling” and many date to January 2002 as the Bush administration struggled to define exactly how and who could be subjected to searches at airports in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

At the time, Kavanaugh was part of the team of Bush lawyers working with the Justice Department on the legality of those searches. In some of the documents released by Booker, the lawyers are questioning whether they should create a “race-neutral system at all” or use race in some circumstances as a factor to decide who gets searched.

Kavanaugh writes in one email that he and others favor “effective security measures that are race neutral” but need to decide how to deal with such measures while searches are being conducted before comprehensive standards are determined.

  USA Today

I can't understand why they would want to hide that. The email is published here. I understand the complaint of the Democrats on the committee about not getting all Kavanaugh documents, getting 42,000 at the 11th hour, and having some marked confidential for the committee that aren't actually involving national security, but I'm not sure what the complaint is on this particular document.

Well, that I can see, but getting a document out that shows the Bush administration was considering using racial profiling seems to be a point not worth risking your senate seat over this far down the line and in the context of a very important Supreme Court appointment.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.