New revelations confirm suspicions that the Trump administration limited an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. CarrieNBaker reports:
Months later, FBI director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s supplemental investigation into Kavanaugh. At a hearing on July 23, 2019, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Chris Coons questioned Wray about the lack of a clear process by which the public and members of Congress could relay information to the FBI, noting that the only conduit for this information was a “tip line” and that the FBI did not appear to pursue any of the tips received.
Nearly two years later and after repeated follow-up requests, the FBI finally responded to the senators’ letter. On June 30, 2021, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs Jill C. Tyson sent aTyson reported that the FBI received over 4,500 tips in relation to the investigation and interviewed 10 people. She also said the FBI “provided all relevant tips to the Office of White House Counsel.
Undaunted, the senators are trying once again to get their questions answered, this time joined by five additional colleagues. On July 21, Sens. Whitehouse, Coons, Dick Durbin , Patrick Leahy , Richard Blumenthal , Mazie Hirono , and Cory Booker sent anotherto Wray requesting additional information and noting that Tyson did not respond to the questions about how the FBI investigated the tips.
“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,”“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.
The senators’ letter set out another list of detailed questions and requested any records and communications related to the tip line investigation, including the tips provided to the White House. They asked for a response by August 21, 2021.with a “fake tip line that never got properly reviewed, that was presumably not even conducted in good faith.”Women’s rights advocates expressed shock and dismay—but not surprise—at these recent revelations about the Kavanaugh investigation.
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