FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh
The FBI director, Chris Wray, is facing new scrutiny of the bureau’s 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 agency’s 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.
The FBI closed its extended background check of Kavanaugh after four days and did not interview either Blasey Ford or Kavanaugh. The FBI also disclosed to the Senate this June – two years after questions were initially asked – that it had received 4,500 tips from the public during the background check and that it had shared all “relevant tips” with the White House counsel at that time. It is not clear whether those tips were ever investigated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/14/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-documents
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to see some 'meat' put into SO MANY charges - those against Kavanaugh, the failures of the FBI to investigate such charges, and the turning over of tips to the White House.
All of this points to yet another railroad job by IQ45 and Moscow Mitch - and it would be WONDERFUL if something could be done about it - but I'm not going to hold my breath...... 
So they are usually in office longer than the President who appoints them. They're expected to act independently from the President because the FBI might be called upon to investigate someone in the executive branch. Biden could maybe decide to fire Wray, but he'd need a good reason. Otherwise he'd be doing exactly like TFG when he fired Jim Comey.
