FBI report expected imminently, one copy to be placed in Senate Judiciary Committee safe
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The FBI is expected to send a single copy of its supplemental report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to Capitol Hill, where it will be kept in a Senate Judiciary Committee safe, two senior Senate sources confirmed to Fox News Wednesday.
The sources added that the report will be sent to the White House before it goes to the committee and it may be carried to the offices of individual senators by request. All 100 senators and nine staffers will be authorized to read the document.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, told Fox News' "The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino" Wednesday that he expected to see the report "sometime today."
"Obviously, that will enable the process to move forward and we hope that we’re going to have the votes to get [Kavanaugh] confirmed when it’s all said and done," Thune said.
Multiple women have stepped forward to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. The first, professor Christine Blasey Ford, has not yet heard from the FBI about scheduling an interview with her, according to her legal team in a Wednesday letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Grassley has asked for details on Ford's claims for his committee, saying: "It’s disappointing that Dr. Ford’s attorneys were willing to share evidence with The Washington Post many weeks ago but to this day refuse to share the same evidence, which Dr. Ford relied on in her testimony, with the Senate.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., must move to end debate on Kavanaugh's nomination to the high court by the end of Wednesday to preserve any hope of holding a confirmation vote this week, as McConnell previously vowed. However, any move to press forward before the FBI report is complete could risk alienating Republican Sens. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski -- all of whom have supported the bureau's investigation.
"[McConnell] said we would vote this week," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters. "I’d take him at his word, but we want to do first things first and read the report."
Republicans hold a 51-49 advantage in the Senate and can only afford to lose one vote before Kavanaugh's nomination would be scuppered.
"It's an audience of three that we have to win over, at least at the moment," said Thune, referring to Flake, Collins and Murkowski.
It is not clear whether any part of the FBI report will be made public, but Thune acknowledged "some of it will probably make its way out into the public and into the mainstream."
"But most importantly, at least right now, is that all senators who are going to have the responsibility to vote on this nomination have an opportunity to review it, assess it and come to their own conclusions about what’s in there."
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9:00PM EST: The FBI investigation is finished
"Finished" without even interviewing the perp or any of the victims, not even Ford who says that she has evidence she was unwilling to provide in public testimony. And the FBI wasn't allowed to interview several dozen other people who said they had corroborating evidence which they wanted to provide the FBI.
"Finished" without even interviewing the perp or any of the victims, not even Ford
Investigations take time and money, WTF did you expect ?
Thorough investigations may also turn up something ya don't like as well.
Best to save money.
Yep what BS.
Expected !!
Why stop there, why not interview the entire high school class, including PJ, Biff, Bootsie and Gunga Din
9:00PM EST: The FBI investigation is finished
Damn bout time WTF took so long ?
LOL
Sad !
But, Expected !
UPDATE:
McConnell just filed cloture (The procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote.)
As soon as Kavanaugh is seated on the bench, McConnell and Grassley must demand that the DOJ immediately arrest and charge Ford with lying under oath in the presence of congress and inciting deception to obstruct official government business.
The question is whether the GOP leadership has the guts to once and for all send the message that lying to the congress and the American people is over and will never again be tolerated under any circumstances. Will the GOP act? Or will they tuck their tail? Do they have the guts?
Hopefully Judicial Watch will help with that, since the organization dosen't have to worry about things like optics & elections
Good. Write them. Demand they get off their snipping arse.
Well that would be fine, but will they also be charging Mr. Kavanaugh as well?
There seem to be as many inconsistencies and holes in His recollections as well.
Just asking
Kavanaugh is free and clear, right? Grassley, McConnell and the FBI just gave him a clean slate. The apparent 'liar' is Ford.
Sorry bbl, I just got it, I was a bit slow on the uptake this morning:)
Exactly. One time I had to pee in a cup and give a snip of my hair for a job that paid not much over minimum.
Kavanaugh is applying for a 'job' that pays well, has great benefits and is almost impossible to be fired from. The least he could do is take a lie detector test too, ya think. After all, he claims he drinks beer and nothing else. Let him prove it.
And just like that, the dems take the house and the senate in November, then the WH.
Hey, you want a drunken rapist on the SC? Fine. Pay the price later.
Not a rapist, accused or otherwise.
But there's a lot of doubt that he told the truth in his confirmation hearing(s). That is not a good thing for any of us.
Only because he was too drunk to pull it off.
He has committed perjury before...
One upside is that if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the court it'll be easier to impeach him from that than from the DC COA.
Very true!
FBI report expected imminently, one copy to be placed in Senate Judiciary Committee safe
Since I have not watched more than 15 minutes of the so called reality nonsense on the brain draining device I can only speculate. But the "Big Reveals" that are advertised I would imagine fall right into this category.
All of the theater of the absurd aside, I have to ask a question. Do you not wish your Government to function as one, or would you rather it continue to be a source of entertainment?
As far as I'm concerned, the behavior of both parties and the White House deserve nothing but scorn over this debacle, from this elector at least.
I agree. The emphasis should be on Kavanagh's writings, opinions and dissents.
FBI Report Expected Imminently, One Copy To Be Placed In Senate Judiciary Committee Safe
I wonder if the public will ever see this report ?
If not, why not ?
I'd like to read it.
They will when the Dems take over the senate and they'll also learn what constraints the GOP put on the FBI's investigation.
There won't be any public release of the document(s) from this background check due to a written agreement between Sen. Patrick Leahy (as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee)and President Obama in 2009. This agreement makes it clear that it is illegal for the Senate to release any information about any such background checks. If any information is released, according to Grassley and McConnell, it has to be from the White House and then it is actually murky if the White House can do so legally.
EDIT: Watch the GOP press conference about the FBI investigation to get the information that can be released legally:
from this background check
I wonder why this "investigation" of fact was being called a background check by certain politicians over and over empathizing those words specifically. The back ground check, while the nation called it an investigation.
Thanks for allowing me to put it together.
When something like that catches my eye or ear instinctively I know somethings probably there. People do and say stuff and in certain ways for a reason. Conscious about it or not at the time, Myself included.
Thanks again.
chuckle ...
PS: BTW, Not surprising it works out this way either.
Keep em dumb and control em easier, cant blame to powers that be, I'd do it to.
IT does suck to play this side sometimes though.
The "302" forms from the FBI's investigation of Clinton were all released. Why does Justice Rapist get special treatment?
Clinton wasn't under a background check, she was in a criminal investigation. BIG difference between the two, which is why her 302s were released after they determined they were not going to prosecute her. With Kavanaugh, this is not a criminal investigation as while there is an allegation there was no crime actually reported at the time and there is still no evidence the assault as described occurred. Plus, you have a completely illogical move being made by her in her own admission, there was a party going on downstairs so instead of going to get help (if the assault actually happened as most people would do), she locked herself in a bathroom and made her own way home after the party.
Background checks are investigations of fact, this just supplements the previous 6 background checks. Because it is a background check, none of the results or interviews can be released by the FBI or the Senate.
yep I got that the first time.
Great to know what's going on, O wait. We really don't.
Never mind.
So there should be no issue with releasing those interviews, right? Unless of course the GOP is trying to hide something......which would also explain why the FBI wasn't allowed to interview over 40 other witnesses.
Do you not understand that the LAW forbids the release of those interviews by the FBI or the Senate? The only place that MIGHT be able to release them is the White House and that is only possible IF the interviewees, Ford, and Kavanaugh all agree to the release of the interviews. Or, do you want to ignore privacy laws, which are what are in play during background checks.
This has nothing do do with my personal political views. However, based on new information that came through at somewhere between 8:15 and 8:30 this morning, I predict the Kavanaugh nomination will succeed-- he will be on the Supreme Court. Now the question in my mind is how markets will react...more later.
(Of course I could be wrong-- but the odds in his favour are very, very high).