Posted on 07/22/2021 12:15:17 PM PDT by kiryandil
4,500 tips to FBI went uninvestigated following supplemental investigation, newly released FBI letter shows Washington, DC – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chris Coons (D-DE), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray last evening requesting additional information on the FBI’s 2018 supplemental background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The senators’ request follows a letter from the Bureau to Whitehouse and Coons revealing new details on the Kavanaugh background investigation, including that the FBI gathered over 4,500 tips in relation to the investigation without any apparent further action by FBI investigators. The Bureau also confirmed that tips from the tip line were instead provided to the Trump White House Counsel’s office, where their fate is unknown.
“The admissions in your letter corroborate and explain numerous credible accounts by individuals and firms that they had contacted the FBI with information ‘highly relevant to . . . allegations’ of sexual misconduct by Justice Kavanaugh, only to be ignored,” the senators write in their letter sent today. “If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all.”
Whitehouse and Coons initially raised the lackluster supplemental background investigation in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Director Wray in July 2019. Whitehouse observed during the hearing the clear lack of process through which the public or members of Congress could relay information to the FBI after the troubling allegations against Kavanaugh made headlines nationwide. Coons likewise pressed Wray for a clear procedure. As both senators noted, the only conduit for information potentially relevant to the allegations was a “tip line,” the product of which was apparently never pursued by the Bureau. During the hearing, Wray echoed Republican claims that the FBI conducted the investigation “by the book,” while asserting that supplemental background investigations are less rigorous than criminal and counterintelligence investigations.
On August 1, 2019, Coons and Whitehouse wrote to Wray asking for a complete picture of how the FBI handled the supplemental background investigation of Kavanaugh. They asked why the FBI failed to contact witnesses whose names were provided to the FBI as possessing “highly relevant” information; how involved the Trump White House was in narrowing the scope of the investigation; whether the FBI had used a tip line in previous background investigations to manage incoming allegations and information regarding a nominee; and more.
Nearly two years later and after repeated follow-up requests, the FBI finally responded to Whitehouse and Coons’s questions. The June 30, 2021 letter from the FBI Office of Congressional Affairs revealed new information on the Kavanaugh investigation: that Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination “was the first time that the FBI set-up a tip line for a nominee undergoing Senate confirmation,” and that tip line received “over 4,500 tips, including phone calls and electronic submissions.” The FBI apparently pursued none of these tips. Instead, by the FBI’s own account, it merely “provided all relevant tips” to Trump’s Office of White House Counsel, the very office that had constrained and directed the limited investigation.
Whitehouse, Coons, Durbin, Leahy, Blumenthal, Hirono, and Booker call on the FBI to answer a range of outstanding questions surrounding the Bureau’s use of the tip line and the relevant information it yielded. The senators press the Bureau for any records and communications related to the tip line investigation, including “all relevant tips” described in Wray’s letter that the FBI “provided . . . to the Office of White House Counsel.”
Was the FBI every able to locate Hunter’s laptop or their butts with both hands?
Trying to keep the squeeze on Wray.
Wray will find out that appeasing the lefties is NEVER enough.
So Kavanaugh had more girls than Epstein?
“Are we supposed to believe there were ANY legitimate “tips” in this highly biased process?”
I have it on good authority that there was one reputable tip that Brett Kavanaugh, on multiple occasions in his teens, urinated in the toilet while standing WITHOUT LIFTING THE SEAT!!!
Only God knows how many times they've been threatened in various ways.
” including that the FBI gathered over 4,500 tips in relation to the investigation without any apparent further action by FBI investigators. The Bureau also confirmed that tips from the tip line were instead provided to the Trump White House Counsel’s office, where their fate is unknown.”
Since when is it the WhiteHouse’s responsibility to investigate tips. Something is going on here. The left is going after Wray and Kavanaugh for some reason. Kavanaugh is not going to get the support he got during the hearings. I feel like he is compromised and I’m sure others do too.
Anyone nominated by a democrat will easily pass muster. But your statement does hold true for any Republican appointee.
I think having a tip line gave the Dems the excuse to take a long time sifting through the tips, sending out teams of F.B.I. agents to investigate the merits of the tips, to send the tips into a bureaucratic circle jerk and delay the confirmation of Kavanaugh. The delay would put the Dems in a better position to block his approval. These evil Dems will play every trick in the book. For them, the ends justifies the means.
4500 tips = 4500 sightings of Kavanaugh with a red cup
Clarence Thomas did lash out against the Dems by calling their treatment a “high-tech lynching," in a passionate speech that was historic and devastating to them.
LOL
Maybe they can ask Rand Paul to show them how to make a criminal referral to the DOJ.
The FBI was politically constrained by the Trump White House? Do we have evidence of this other than Director Ray said so? If they were constrained, was it to prevent political prosecutions or was it to stop legitimate investigations?
If Trump really had something big to hide it would have come out while he was president to get rid of him.
If Kavanaugh was hiding something surely it would have come out during his confirmation.
The left was going after Trump and Kavanaugh with both barrels. Now five and three years later, respectively, somehow they found something new?
When the fbi, cia etc etc are canceled and defunct I’ll believe America gets the picture
What color would you like your bridge?
Since when is it the WhiteHouse’s responsibility to investigate tips. Something is going on here.
“One of those tips was from me. I called in to tell them about the horrendous experience I had in an elevator with Senator DiFi. It took me years to get over the shock of her groping me and saying she wanted someone younger than her husband. I gave them date and time and even told them I was able to record part of the encounter toward the end with my phone. But they were not interested, just kept asking if Kavanaugh had ever groped me.”
That is about as true as probably 99.99% of those phone calls they now want to be investigated.
Only 4500? I would have expected the libs to mount a better shenanigan than that.
Next time it will be mail-in accusations with drop boxes on every corner, and there won’t be any folds...
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