F.B.I. Review of Kavanaugh Was Limited From the Start.
'An exasperated President Trump picked up the phone to call the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, last Sunday. Tell the F.B.I. they can investigate anything, he told Mr. McGahn, because we need the critics to stop.
Not so fast, Mr. McGahn said.
Mr. McGahn, according to people familiar with the conversation, told the president that even though the White House was facing a storm of condemnation for limiting the F.B.I. background check into sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a wide-ranging inquiry like some Democrats were demanding and Mr. Trump was suggesting would be potentially disastrous for Judge Kavanaughs chances of confirmation to the Supreme Court.
It would also go far beyond the F.B.I.s usual supplemental background investigation, which is, by definition, narrow in scope.
The White House could not legally order the F.B.I. to rummage indiscriminately through someones life, Mr. McGahn told the president. And without a criminal investigation to pursue, agents could not use search warrants and subpoenas to try to get at the truth.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-fbi.html?
MattP
(3,304 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)No chance, but he could.
greyl
(22,990 posts)#KavanaughPerjury
LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)t-rump for the "limit" FBI investigation. That's total bullshit. Don't believe this lie. Apparently they are saying that yes Dr. Ford was credible but confused on the attacker. Don't believe this, it a total lie. Apparently the FBI limited report may say something else. Ya know, the report that is held in a secret vault at the senate. They are not going to change their votes, but now want to appear caring. They are not, they don't care.
quadtetra
(46 posts)When she wrote the letter to Director Wray asking to clarify the investigation's scope, she should have added:
1. A 24h time limit for reply
2. If no reply, boycott investigation, declare it as scam and refuse to even read it
3. If reply but scope insufficient, (no interview of Kavanaugh and Ford, no followup interviews, etc), declare investigation a sham and boycott.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,134 posts)They weren't interested in finding anything.