The single copy of the FBI's Kavanaugh report is behind closed doors. How do senators see it?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The single copy of the FBI's Kavanaugh report is behind closed doors. Here's what senators have to do to see it

By Phil Mattingly, CNN

Updated 11:23 AM ET, Thu October 4, 2018

(CNN) -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to be the next Supreme Court justice will be decided Thursday.

All 100 senators will be able to review the supplemental background investigation throughout the day. A reminder that barring some dramatic disclosure in from that inquiry, 95 senators have already made up their minds. How the remaining groups sees the new background information -- and how it factors into their decisions -- will drive the day.

It all comes down to five senators -- three Republicans and two Democrats -- and what they see today behind closed doors. Here are the rules senators are following to review the documents.

The format

Judiciary Committee Republican staff got the first look at the FBI's findings starting at 8 a.m. ET. At 9 a.m. ET, Democrats took over the room. Control of the room is scheduled to rotate, every other hour, for the rest of Thursday with most, if not all, of the 51-senator GOP conference is expected to file into the room at 10 a.m. ... The staff that is cleared to review the material will provide briefings, likely to groups of senators, and the senators will be able to review the raw 302s themselves.

{snip}

[defacto7]

1. There's probably only a couple of sentences in it

considering what the FBI actually did in this investigation.

They just pass it around the room once.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Why make it so hard to look at?

[Meadowoak]

3. With x-ray glasses of course.

[Scarsdale]

4. One observation,

if he is the best candidate the gop can promote, it does not say much for their party, does it?

[SeattleVet]

5. Readily accessible...

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe