A Democratic senator has suggested that the FBI’s investigation into sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, when a nominee in the Supreme Court, could have been ‘false’ in 2018, and according to Merrick Garland, a new attorney general, should help with ‘ an investigation. reported Tuesday.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that held the controversial confirmation hearing of Kavanaugh, is appealing to Garland to assist the Senate as he questions how thoroughly the FBI investigated has, reports the Guardian.
Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago when they were both high school students in Maryland.
Kavanugh vehemently denied the allegations, bringing in decades-old magazines from his high school years to defend himself.
But the Democrats in the judicial panel that investigated the allegations claim that the FBI did not conduct a thorough investigation because agents did not conduct an interview with Kavanaugh or Ford.
In a letter to Garland, Whitehouse said that some witnesses wanted to talk to the FBI about their allegations against Kavanaugh, but that the agency did not reproduce it, and that the case was never assigned to an agent and that there was no evidence. not.
‘This was, in my view, a unique behavior because the Bureau is usually susceptible to information and evidence; “But in this case, the shutters were closed, the drawbridge was set up and there was no access point through which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse told the Guardian.
He argued that although the FBI had created a ‘tip line’, senators had not received any information on how the new claims were processed or evaluated.
And although a review of the allegations received via the ‘tip line’ indicated that the FBI had received a “stack” of new information, senators found no explanation as to whether further steps had been taken to review the new data. , Whitehouse claims.
“It seems that this ‘tip line’ worked more like a rubbish bin, with everything that came down in the spout, sent to the figurative rubbish list without review,” he said.
He said he wanted answers on ‘how, why and on whose orders’ the FBI conducted a ‘false’ investigation and whether the claims collected in the ‘tip line’ follow the standard of other allegations that collected by tips.