Posted on 09/13/2018 10:35:13 AM PDT by mandaladon
Senate Democrats have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI for investigation.
“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat and a member of the Judiciary Committee, told BuzzFeed News on Thursday about the letter.
A source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that the letter had been referred to the FBI for investigation.
The letter has been the subject of days of intrigue on Capitol Hill but the contents of it have not been publicly disclosed by senators who have seen the document.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was given the letter by Calif. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D), according to multiple reports.
But Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, has refused to answer multiple questions about the letter over the past two days.
She confirmed in a statement on Thursday that she had referred the matter to federal authorities.
"I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further," Feinstein said.
"I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities," she continued.
Questions about the letter boiled over on Wednesday after The Intercept published a piece saying Feinstein had refused to share the content of the letter with other members on the committee.
Sources told The Intercept that the letter was relayed by an individual affiliated with Stanford University. Some sources told the publication that it was about an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school.
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Did he pull Becky Sue’s pigtails and stick them in an inkwell.
This means the Dems still have moles in the FBI.
“That’s what happens when you give that evil RATS too much time to play in the playground!”
This same concept applies to President Trump allowing any more time before doing something to stop the Mueller investigation or declassifying documents. They WILL come up with something incredibly damaging! These people are so desperate they launched a silent coup. And they are probably backed by monstrous amounts of leftist money.
They are desperate. The democrats paid someone to fabricate this at the last minute. They know damned well that Kavanaugh did nothing. The fbi is corrupt too, as are democrats.
And will stop at nothing.
I think I pulled a pigtail in pre-school.
“...it was about an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school.”
Let me guess. He tried to stick his tongue down her throat and she slapped him because his pimples grossed her out. How series.
Yep and backed up with ALL of SOCIAL MEDIA..including google!! Sometimes I think this evil is too powerful to overcome...not even Jesus can help us out of this mess!
Dude.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s way worse than this allegation.
Kavanaugh ran after a kindergarten girl once, when he was 6 years old.
NO WAY WE CAN VOTE ON HIM!
An anonymous, unsubstantiated report from Kavanaugh’s freakin’ HIGH SCHOOL years?
Without any information or a name of an accuser, this is just defamation of character against Kavanaugh. This is a typical democratic tactic, to slander a person with no more information than an accusation. The democrats are really something.
Kavanaugh emerged naked, from a woman’s vagina, many years ago, there’s that...
How low will they go? It seems there are no depths too low for the Senate Rats to plummet. They don’t like his politics so they come up with any unsubstantiated slime they can drag up or make up. This is truly disgusting...
What is really disgusting is this managed to delay the vote till next Thursday.
I really despise the left; nasty subhuman creatures that they are.
No, it didn't.
The News Misleadia is crowing that the Democrats managed to delay the vote a week.
But, as usual, it's a lie. Lies are the stock in trade of the News Misleadia.
Note the text in this article from 5 days ago, from NPR:
So, the News Misleadia falsely reports the scheduled two-week-away,one-week-ago vote as a victory for the Democrats, and everyone falls for it.
I bet the day before the vote, CBS news will breathlessly report, “In a stunning victory, the Democrat Party postponed the Kavanaugh vote until tomorrow.”
Next they’ll be looking into his behavior in third grade.
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