https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/kavanaugh-fbi-probe-limit-888667
FBI's Wray confirms White House limited Kavanaugh probe
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate on Wednesday that the White House put limits on the re-opened investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but the law enforcement chief insisted that the process used was a typical one.
"Our supplemental update to the previous background investigation was limited in scope and that ... is consistent with the standard process for such investigations going back a long ways," Wray said under questioning by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on global security threats.
"I've spoken with our background investigation specialists and they have assured me this was handled in a way consistent with their experience and the standard process," the FBI director said, later adding that the inquiry was "very specific in scope—limited in scope."
Wray confirmed that background investigations are handled differently from other FBI probes and that the scope of inquiries into judicial nominees is dictated by the White House. However, he declined to discuss any specifics about what the White House decided should or should not be examined during the brief follow-up investigation conducted following the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
These lying sacks of shit
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/fbi-investigation-parameters-kavanaugh/index.html
And for Julie Swetnick -- who among other allegations accused Kavanaugh of sexually aggressive behavior at alcohol-fueled parties when he was in high school -- the accusation was deemed not credible by the White House, so it was not part of what the FBI was instructed to look at, according to a source briefed on the investigation.
White House spokesman Raj Shah said Thursday that the scope of the investigation was set by the Senate, although the White House ordered the supplemental FBI investigation to be conducted.
"There was an initial list of four provided to us by the Senate. They were interviewed and leads were followed up on," Shah said on CNN's "New Day."
But Republican senators said they didn't provide the FBI with a list of who should be contacted.
"We did not come up with a list people who the FBI should interview," said Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican. "The FBI was requested to conduct an investigation into any and all credible, current accusation of sexual misconduct by Judge Kavanaugh. And they FBI made the decision from there as to who to interview."
The FBI confidential Kavanaugh report: Who's allowed to read it and where
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...i-s-confidential-kavanaugh-report-how-n916441
All 100 senators will have secure access to the new information on Thursday, but not their staffs. They have set a pecking order for who gets to see it first.
There also are 10 Judiciary Committee staffers who have access to the secret Kavanaugh file, which is a paper report — there are no pdf's or emails of it. And it will not be made public.
White House Finds No Support in FBI Report for Claims Against Kavanaugh
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-...ns-against-kavanaugh-in-fbi-report-1538625927
WASHINGTON—The White House has found no corroboration of the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after examining interview reports from the FBI’s latest probe into the judge’s background, according to people familiar with the matter.
The F.B.I. Probe Ignored Testimonies from Former Classmates of Kavanaugh
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...testimonies-from-kavanaughs-former-classmates
Frustrated potential witnesses who have been unable to speak with the F.B.I agents conducting the investigation into sexual-assault allegations against Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have been resorting to sending statements, unsolicited, to the Bureau and to senators, in hopes that they would be seen before the inquiry concluded. On Monday, President Trump said that the Bureau should be able to interview “anybody they want within reason,” but the extent of the constraints placed on the investigating agents by the White House remained unclear. Late Wednesday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the F.B.I. probe was over and cleared the way for an important procedural vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination to take place on Friday.
Looks like they had no problem interviewing those denying the allegations but refused to meet those confirming the allegations....interesting how that works
A running list of everyone the FBI has interviewed in the Kavanaugh investigation so far
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/3/17932338/brett-kavanaugh-christine-ford-fbi-investigation
There could be a crucial reason for their omission from the investigation. Sources have told Bloomberg that the FBI has not done interviews with Ford or Kavanaugh because the White House hasn’t granted it the authority to conduct them. A source has also told NBC Newsthat the White House felt that the testimony Ford offered under oath last week was sufficient. Experts have said that there could be more information gleaned in a direct interview with investigators that’s not captured in broader Senate testimony.
FBI has not contacted dozens of potential sources in Kavanaugh investigation
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...have-not-been-contacted-fbi-kavanaugh-n916146
Internally, the bureau is concerned that the constraints of the investigation could damage its reputation for finding the truth, the officials said.
More than 20 individuals who know either Kavanaugh or Ramirez, who has accused the nominee of exposing himself to her while the two attended Yale University, have not heard from the FBI despite attempts to contact investigators, including Kavanaugh’s roommate at the time and a former close Ramirez friend.
A senior U.S. official and two other sources briefed on the details of the FBI investigation confirmed to NBC news that the FBI’s work on the Brett Kavanaugh matter remains significantly limited in scope, and that it’s unlikely agents will be allowed to interview many, if any, additional witnesses before the probe wraps up this week.
One current and two former FBI officials confirmed to NBC News that dozens of witnesses have come forward to FBI field offices who say they have information on Brett Kavanaugh, but agents have not been permitted to talk to many of them. To the extent that any interviews have been done, the officials say, it’s not clear the information will be considered as part of the FBI’s limited scope inquiry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4dbaf8-c7be-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html
Key Republicans signal satisfaction with FBI report, increasing confirmation odds for Kavanaugh
Zerohedge huh?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...as-end-of-kavanaugh-probe-looms-idUSKCN1MD0DG
Some witnesses say they called FBI in vain as end of Kavanaugh probe looms
(Reuters) - Several people with information related to allegations of sexual misconduct against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh say they have tried in vain to speak with the FBI, which is expected to wrap up its investigation this week.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...rview-dr-christine-blasey-ford-source-n915936
FBI could wrap up Kavanaugh probe as early as Tuesday night
The FBI was given a week to probe allegations of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court nominee, but sources say the agency could finish early.
Ford's attorneys sent a sharply-worded letter to the FBI Tuesday afternoon expressing dismay over the reports that the agency wasn't planning to interview their client.
The lawyers, Michael Bromwich and Debra Katz, wrote that they've heard nothing from the FBI after sending a "series of emails and letters in which we identified witnesses and evidence that would likely assist" the investigation.
"It is inconceivable that the FBI could conduct a thorough investigation of Dr. Ford’s allegations without interviewing her, Judge Kavanaugh, or the witnesses we have identified in our letters to you," the lawyers added in the letter.
Also of note, they haven't interviewed any of the witnesses named by Ramirez
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-inquiry-fbi-dreads-new-political-storm/
White house makes final call on findings. FBI may not compel witnesses to cooperate.
It's ok to lie under oath says the white house:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.f19f24a8b04d
The FBI will not, for example, conduct an unfettered review of Kavanaugh’s youthful drinking or examine statements Kavanaugh made about his alcohol consumption during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to see if those answers were accurate or misleading, the people familiar with the matter said. The White House also could resist inquiries into new allegations, the people said.
This is how a rigged investigation looks like
White House Is Controlling Who FBI Interviews in Kavanaugh Investigation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...adline-says-fbi-shouldnt-have-shot-clock.html
Former FBI Director James Comey criticized the time frame of the bureau's ongoing review into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's background Sunday, writing in a New York Times op-ed that "it is idiotic to put a shot clock on the FBI."
Comey, who was fired by President Trump in May 2017, conceded that an investigation that must be wrapped up by Friday was better than no investigation at all. But he also wrote that "the process is deeply flawed, and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process."
"If truth were the only goal, there would be no clock, and the investigation wouldn’t have been sought after the Senate Judiciary Committee already endorsed the nominee," Comey wrote. "Instead, it seems that the Republican goal is to be able to say there was an investigation and it didn't change their view, while the Democrats hope for incriminating evidence to derail the nominee."
Surprising absolutely no one:
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