The latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state includes a memo sent from a liberal activist offering Clinton a detailed plan to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
The memo, dated Oct. 24, 2010, was first sent by Media Matters founder David Brock and later forwarded to Clinton by her husband’s former senior adviser, Sidney “Sid” Blumenthal, with the subject: “H: Brock Memo Here, Have Many More Ideas On This. S.”
Brock’s memo included a transcript from a previous exchange between Thomas and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and details about accusations made against the Supreme Court justice by former assistant U.S. Attorney Lillian McEwen.
In 2010, 19 years after Thomas’ former assistant Anita Hill told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Thomas had sexually harassed her, McEwen said, in several interviews with the New York Times, Washington Post, and WJLA-TV, that she was intimately involved with Thomas at the time of the Hill scandal and that he had “allowed his interest in pornography to bleed into his professional relationships.”
Brock noted in the memo that despite penning a personal letter to her former boss then-Sen. Joe Biden regarding the nature of her relationship with Thomas, McEwen was never called to testify during Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearings.
In separate sections of the memo, Brock alleges that Thomas “Suppressed Evidence” and is guilty of “Intimidating a Witness.”
“There were five other individuals, including now McEwen, who had first-hand knowledge of Thomas’s behavior as Hill,” he wrote.
Adding, “a fourth woman with knowledge of Thomas’s behavior, Kaye Savage… was interviewed by [the] Judiciary Committee staff after she contacted the committee, and a staffer made notes, but she was never called to testify.”
“Her story did not become public until authors [Jill] Abramson and [Jane] Mayer obtained the staff notes and interviewed Savage, who told the authors of visiting Thomas’s apartment during the time Hill was working for Thomas and observing stacks of pornographic magazines and all of the walls of the apartment papered with centerfolds of large-breasted nude women.”
Thomas, a Supreme Court justice, was nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Brock, an ex-conservative, said in 2001 that he “consciously lied” in portions of his book, The Real Anita Hill, to shield Thomas from further controversy.
