Thomas Catenacci
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats demanded this week that the FBI hand over additional information related to its 2018 investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The Democrats led by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Chris Coons raised a series of questions about the FBI’s handling of its sexual misconduct probe into Brett Kavanaugh in response to a letter the Bureau sent them in June. They expressed particular concern that the FBI had received more than 4,500 tips and shared ones deemed “relevant” to former President Donald Trump’s White House.
“The admissions in your letter corroborate and explain numerous credible accounts by individuals and firms that they had contacted the FBI with information ‘highly relevant to . . . allegations’ of sexual misconduct by Justice Kavanaugh, only to be ignored,” seven Judiciary Democrats wrote in a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray late Wednesday.
“If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all,” the letter continued.
The lawmakers asked the FBI to share additional details including how tips were considered to be “relevant,” how many tips it shared with the Trump White House, whether tips were ever fully investigated and if the Bureau still had copies of the tips. The lawmaker also asked why potential witnesses identified through the tip line were never contacted or interviewed.
In the FBI’s letter, the agency noted that it gave the tips to the Office of the White House Counsel because that was the “requesting entity.” The Bureau also said the Kavanaugh background investigation involved different procedures than the FBI’s criminal probes.
In mid-2018, after Trump nominated then Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, several women came forward with allegations he had sexually assaulted or harassed them. But Judiciary Committee and FBI investigations determined the accusations were unsubstantiated and the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh in October 2018.
On Wednesday, the seven Democratic senators gave Wray until Aug. 31, 2021 to respond to their questions. In addition to Whitehouse and Coons, Sens. Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono and Cory Booker signed the letter.
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The communist strike again this is right out of the communist play book.The democrats just as well come out and admit the are nothing more and nothing less than out and out communists they are trying their level best to make this country into a communist state and for the life of me why?.Why do they want that why because of power they think they will have the hell of it is most of them will also be under the leaders thumb who ever he turns out to be probably dear old Odumbo who I would guess taking orders from the Chinks likely as not.What is going on is really scary for people who have seen what the communists really are and how the kill anyone who gets in their way and don’t think it will not be that way if they get total control.Hopefully people will wake up but some of them want this .They donot know what they will be in for .The fools like blm and antifa will be the first ones the stangd against the wall when they no longer need them they are called useful idiots.
Well, it’s been 3 years, so they’ve had enough time to forge documents and stuff.
People deny the obvious or they just don’t care. The really low number of supporters of the Democrat Insurrection, of “Biden”/Harris and every Democrat in Congress is painted many magnitudes higher than reality by the Globalist Marxists Press. The only way the Communists can stay in the White House what we see. the same things as Stalin did to anyone who might be opposition. They started go after Trump before the 2016 election..and failed and then built a larger Conspiracy to steal the Election. Now ruling the masse, first step is to try the opposing influencial the Politicians,in their Press and then in heir controlled Legislature. When will they go to the next level of Stalinist Ideology imprisonment via show farce of trials and…. assassination?
Where was the party? “I don’t know”
When was the party? “I don’t know”
How did you get to the party? “I don’t know”
Who was at the party? “I don’t remember”
How did you get home? “I don’t know, but I know it was Brett Kavanaugh that sexually assaulted me”