Posted on 09/30/2018 11:59:01 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Saturday that the F.B.I. will have “free rein” to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, but the emerging contours of the inquiry showed its limited scope.
Four witnesses will be questioned in coming days about aspects of the assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, according to two people familiar with the matter. Left off the list were former classmates who have contradicted Judge Kavanaugh’s congressional testimony about his drinking and partying as a student.
The White House will decide the breadth of the inquiry, though presidential advisers were working in concert with Senate Republicans, said the two people, one a senior administration official, who both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive investigation.
The White House can order investigators to further examine the allegations if their findings from the four witness interviews open new avenues of inquiry, and Mr. Trump seemed to stress that part of the plan in a tweet late on Saturday.
“I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion,” Mr. Trump wrote. He denied an NBC News report that he was limiting the inquiry and that investigators were not permitted to examine the claims of Julie Swetnick, a woman who has said she witnessed a severely drunken Judge Kavanaugh mistreat women at parties in high school, and that he had attended parties where high school boys gang-raped teenage girls.
Investigators will interview one of the witnesses, a high school friend of Judge Kavanaugh’s named Mark Judge, about Ms. Swetnick’s accusations, the two people said.
The inquiry, which will last no more than a week, is a limited background check of Judge Kavanaugh, not a full-fledged criminal investigation. He has vigorously denied any sexual impropriety or wrongdoing.
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To state the obvious, anytime the NYT has four authors on a story, you can bet it is pure BS.
So is the investigation about alleged sexual assault, or teenage drinking?
The Commies wont be satisfied til Kavanaugh is investigated for the Lindberg baby kidnapping. If the GOP is SO blinded by their stupidity that they can’t see what is going on here they are absolutely hopeless
It’s not restricted. Feinstein and her staff along with others
will be investigated for leaking the letter.
I hope they find the leaker.
It’s all about fart jokes and drinking games. And a chick named Renate.
This is just more cover, NY Slimes knows it. I bet they already have the next bunch of lies ready to spring when the dems tell them.
This was never about an investigation, this was about buying another week to search, smear & destroy.. It’s too early, the dems will be be springing the lies from their next set of paid lairs, near the end of the week.
Five bylines! The Racist NY Slimes is treating this very, very seriously! LOL
Next Rat line of attack - it’s too limited and it’s a week’s delay isn’t enough.
If there was any genuine dirt on Judge Kavanaugh, the FBI would have found it on one of their previous investigations, or the Clintons would have dug it up in 1998. The danger is that some corrupt Obama-Clinton loyalist within the FBI will try to fabricate something. I don't trust the FBI given their track record.
Fake News strikes again.
There is a target audience of this report: Consisting of a total of one (1) person(s). And he is a flake.
Working with Senate republicans is appropriate to ensure that the promise made by Grassley, as requested by Flake, is sufficient, no less... and, critically, no more than the gentleman's/woman's agreement that was made.
The more journalists assigned to a story, the more lies it contains.
I don’t even need to read this bs. It’s only Sunday and they’re spinning that Trump is limiting the investigation.
It comes as no surprise they won’t be satisfied no matter how much you give them.
Is the investigation into Feinstein confirmed?
They want to get Flake and the Weak Sisters to capitulate.
Its all about killing the Kavanaugh nomination through endless delays.
That is what I read from Senator Cotton.
One can’t help but notice that these assault/rape allegations
are always directed at “Judge” Kavanaugh, although as a Judge
there are no claims.
Teenage sexual fumblings are clumsily made by ALL teenagers.
The current supplemental investigation is restricted only to the question at hand and, even more importantly, it is restricted to one week as requested by the Judiciary Committee. After one week (I presume it’s this coming Friday), McConnell can call the vote (which, of course, he’ll do if he has the votes to confirm).
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