During The Confirmation Hearings for Bret Kavanaugh in 2018, some 4,500 tips were sent to the FBI from people who claimed to have knowledge of his past inappropriate conduct with women. The FBI did not investigate these but instead forwarded them to The Whitehouse for vetting where, surprise… surprise… none were deemed worthy of further scrutiny.

MSN

“On Thursday, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that the bureau’s 2018 investigation into sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a sham. The FBI had sent all relevant tips (the FBI’s assistant director, Jill Tyson, said there were about 4,500) to Donald Trump’s White House. From there, Trump’s team then decided whom the FBI could interview as part of its sexual misconduct investigation into Kavanaugh before he was confirmed.”

Here’s the video:

And text of the crucial testimony:

“WHITEHOUSE: As you know, we are entering the fourth year of a frustrating saga […] regarding the Kavanaugh supplemental background investigation, and I’d like to get that matter wrapped up. First, is it true that after Kavanaugh-related tips were separated from other tips, that they were forwarded to White House counsel without investigation?

WRAY: … When it comes to the tip line, we wanted to make sure the White House had all the information we had, so when the hundreds of calls started coming it, we gathered those up, reviewed them and provided them to the White House—

WHITEHOUSE: Without investigation?

WRAY: We reviewed them and then provided them to the White House.

WHITEHOUSE: You reviewed them for the purposes of separating from tip line traffic but did not further investigate the ones that related to Kavanaugh, correct?

WRAY: Correct.

WHITEHOUSE: Is it also true that in that supplemental BI [background investigation], the FBI took direction from the White House as to whom the FBI would question and even what questions the FBI could ask?

WRAY: So it is true … as to the who. I am not sure as I sit here whether it is true as to the what questions.“

To Wray’s last point, I’m not sure if who decides “what questions” is really relevant if no one is questioned but whatevs…


Looks that way, Saturn.


Yep


That’s about the size of it, Kentucky…

I’m not sure if any of this surprises anyone, I think most of us suspected as much at the time.

But it is good, I suppose, that this shit has been dragged out into the sunlight.

Can we do anything about it?

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12 COMMENTS

  1. So much shit has been dragged out into the sunlight and NOTHING comes of it. Why is Wray still there? Why were any TFG appointees in the DOJ still there? Biden needs to clean house and soon or those traitors will continue their work of dismantling Democracy.

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  2. Beer bong lied to the senate. Period. End of story. Beer bong ALSO committed sexual violence crimes. His worthless ass should be in prison not on the s.c. So long as white males are allowed to break laws, lie, indulge in corruption, etc. this country will NEVER achieve anything close to its full potential. Bright light of the world? F.F.S. this country isn’t even a barely flickering spark.

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  3. It’s not like this is a surprise. We knew then the FBI was doing all it could to stay the hell out of the matter. And let’s not forget that Wray has been a Federalist Society Fuckwad from the get-go. He KNEW all that smoke meant there was a fire, but he refused to send in the firefighters to deal with it. He KNEW it. WE knew it. EVERYONE knew it. His greasy-assed lame excuse about process and the requesting authority is weaker than Trump’s wobbly legs walking down a gently inclined ramp. Wray knew goddamned good and well some of those tips were worthy of follow-up – credible people (I recall a professor at NC State – a stone’s throw from where I’m sitting) furiously searching for someone to give what would have been damning evidence to. The FBI under Wray wasn’t interested. They AVOIDED real, credible tips like a vampire avoids sunlight and holy water. And THAT kind of treatment of the matter would only have come about with “unofficial” direction from the very top leadership of the FBI. Including Christopher Fucking Wray.

    Fuck Kavanagh. Drag his name through the fucking mud! He didn’t get nearly what he deserved before, and will never really have to pay for his crimes and sins. But drag his name through the fucking mud! Make his own family, his daughters ashamed to be related to his worthless, RAPIST ass!

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  4. We must have forgotten that Hoover’s FBI said there was no such thing as the mafia. Instead, they did all they could to see to it that Fred Hampton, MLK and Malcolm X were dead before any of them lived to see 50.

    Neither the FBI nor the Sec. Service appear to be loyal to the US, Instead, they’re loyal to the white old man in charge.

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  5. The LAW…just a gun held by corrupt beauracrats against the heads of the poor. The rich? See for yourself then do the stupid thing by arguing the Law stands for justice….

  6. I watched the farce of the hearings. Brewski Kavanaugh came across as a frat rat who learned absolutely nothing from his youthful.”mistakes,” an entitled little puke with every advantage. His anger alone at anyone daring to.question him or believe that Blasey Ford was telling the truth should have disqualified him for not having a calm,,rational judicial temperament.
    When he got red in the face and snapped out most answers, he looked like a constipated toddler tryingt to force out a turd. In most yesrs, that would have disqualified him, but we ‘d already had Scalia,,Thomas,,andAlito,,the Tantrum Triplets,,so he seemed acceptable to.Rs despite his rage at Senators daring to ask him questions.
    Wray has a lot to.anser for by ignoring background checks. Not that those,would have disqualified him in R eyes. The fact that there is a very good chance that he raped or flashed women didn’t matter.

    GOP. Greedy Obscene Perverts.

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  7. No surprise, really. Absolutely disgusting. It was obvious that the “fix” was in for Kavanaugh; the FBI barely dusted off his info. If Wray is still head of the FBI, Pres. Biden needs to see that he’s fired, and a REAL investigation on Boof Boy should start ASAP, and gets him off the Court.

  8. I’ve been mulling things over since all the hoopla of beer man’s supposed follow ups of the FBI, handled by non other than our own worthless Grassley … so careful to handle everything with care … gave the FBI time to interview tipsters, had to know the fiasco there as it happened …

    I think we should color his return ticket to power if he gets re-elected in blood red paint …

    NOW, would be a good time to remind him of his absolute failure of keeping things on the up-and-up with the FBI … We could ask him how soon he knew of the failure to check out the 40 or more, on-site students at the time who were ready to dump everything on the Boof king of mindless fuck offs and parties … these same former students made various comments on the web, saying they were anxious to testify, but had not heard back from the FBI …

    SO … As Grassley stammered about having given enough time for a reboot on asking questions of the direct witnesses, he was lying to congress and the public … of course, since day one of Trump’s start up as the Man of many lies, Grassley said he supported him without ANY RESERVATIONS …

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