A supreme lie, in three takes. Take one: Mark Judge writes, in his memoir about his time at Brett Kavanaugh's high school, about a "Bart O'Kavanaugh" vomiting and passing out from booze during "beach week" on the Maryland coastline. 
Take two: In Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy asks if he is the "Bart O'Kavanaugh" described in Judge's book. "You'd have to ask him," Kavanaugh says, referring to Judge.
And now, the third and final act, in which the New York Times publishes a 1983 letter about beach week that Brett Kavanaugh wrote to his friends, signing it "Bart" (which was his nickname).
There's been some great reporting on the Kavanaugh battle by @theintercept. Read our stories here. theintercept.com/collections/ka…
