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FBI director Chris Wray is facing new scrutiny of the bureaus handling of its 2018 background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, including its claim that the FBI lacked the authority to conduct a further investigation into the then supreme court nominee.
At the heart of the new questions that Wray will face later this week, when he testifies before the Senate judiciary committee, is a 2010 Memorandum of Understanding that the FBI has recently said constrained the agencys ability to conduct any further investigations of allegations of misconduct.
It is not clear whether that claim is accurate, based on a close reading of the MOU, which was released in court records following a Freedom of Information Act request.
The FBI was called to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation process in 2018, after he was accused of assault by Christine Blasey Ford, a professor who knew Kavanaugh when they were both in high school. He also faced other accusations, including that he had exposed himself to a classmate at Yale called Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh denied both accusations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-director-faces-new-scrutiny-over-investigation-of-brett-kavanaugh/ar-AAOrfBQ
KPN
(15,637 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Trump should have been detained by now. He's dangerous and a flight risk.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)WHY?
The legitimacy of investigations past and GOING FORWARD is compromised by the proof of -- shall we say -- "LAX" investigations of evident criminality in recent years.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,485 posts)2naSalit
(86,332 posts)That I can't feel comfortable about remaining in that position. He should be asked to resign.