By Geoff Earle

Dailymail.com

March 16, 2021

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is calling the FBI’s background investigation into Brett Kavanaugh ‘fake’ – as he demands the bureau be held to account for its activity during the Supreme Court Justice’s bitter confirmation process.

Whitehouse made the claim in a blistering letter to new Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday, where he revisited the charged 2018 confirmation, when Kavanaugh’s fate hung in the balance amid accusations of sexual assault.

He accused the FBI of failing to follow its own guidelines for how to conduct probes and sort through tips of information provided by accusers and witnesses to the alleged events. And he said the bureau never properly probed the fact of the matter of whether Kavanaugh assaulted accuser Christine Blasey Ford at a party decades ago as she claims he did.

With accusations flying against Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, senators delayed a vote for a week to allow for a supplemental FBI investigation. But according to Whitehouse, the agency quite possibly conducted its probe ‘with drawbridges up and a fake ‘tip line’ – then proceeded to ‘stonewall’ the matter.

Or, he argued, the agency may have been operating under rules that are themselves out of whack. ‘It cannot and should not be the policy of the FBI to not follow up on serious allegations of misconduct during background check investigations,’ he said

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  1. Of course this story will be buried by Leftist Activist SJW Media Outlets like CNN, BBC, CBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, and several more but Mail On Line, FOX, and a few more will cover this story extensively and eventually those mentioned will need to cover the whole sordid story .

    POTUS Trump made a huge unforgiveable mistake by appointing Liberal Democrat Christopher Wray FBI Director after he had just fired the Bottom Feeder James Comey, Trump followed bad advice as he did far too often .

    Appointing Christopher Ray FBI Director and then allowing AG Barr to appoint Durham as Investigator on the Russia Hoax really hurt the re – election chances for Trump last November .

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