If I were a FBI agent, and got a call on a Saturday to report into work and expect to work this query...I’d be sitting there and laughing. The chief of the query will write up forty names on some whiteboard and you will partner up with some guy to take on two of the supposed witnesses as your part of the query.
First, neither person may be around this week (off on some vacation), and if they are available...they might just say it in a blunt way....Ford was a heavy drinker and maybe they had some action with her, but they don’t remember much. You get twenty questions and answers, and go back to the office to type this up. Maybe you get an additional name or two from this interview. You meet more folks, who mostly don’t remember the period.
In the end, you and the forty-odd FBI agents sit down and write a summary of the interviews, with no presumed guilt or innocence to the summary (that’s not your job). Altogether, it’s 900 pages generated. Now the Senators and their staffs....get all upset because they can’t possibly read 900 pages, and no one wrote the one guilt or innocent into the summary. So they demand six weeks to read the summary. President Trump will probably have to agree to seven additional days, but the Democrats basically have to hire someone to read the summary for them, and then produce a summary of the summary (twenty pages). Feinstein will complain that this is still too much, and some idiot will have to write a summary of the summary of the summary...just for her.
You come to the end of this with three basic facts. (1) No one remembers anything of Ford’s brief encounter with Kavanaugh. (2) A heck of a lot of people in their teens seemed to be drinking excessively and some to the extent of blacking out. (3) The law of Maryland in 1982 came up and the FBI discovered that Ford description of assault and attempted rape...even if it did occur (which they can’t establish as a fact)...by Maryland law of 1982, it’s a misdemeanor and it had to be reported within 12 months.
The FBI will agree that they could have spent an entire year on this query, but facts in a 36-year old episode like this? It can be written on a 3x5 inch index card.
“...get all upset because they can’t possibly read 900 pages, and no one wrote the one guilt or innocent into the summary.”
Well then, I guess they’ll just have to vote Kavanaugh in so they can see what is in it!