FBI Accused Of Running ‘Fake Tip Line’ During Brett Kavanaugh Background Check

Seven Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats demanded the FBI explain its use of a novel tip line implemented during a supplemental background investigation into then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

In a Tuesday letter to Director Chris Wray, Democratic senators accused the FBI of being “politically constrained by the Trump White House,” demanding to know what extent the agency vetted tips and whether the administration prevented it from doing so.

The letter was written by Sens. Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, Chris Coons, Cory Booker, Mazie Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Richard Blumenthal.

The accusation comes in response to a June 30 letter from Jill Tyson, assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs, addressed to Whitehouse and Coons detailing the agency’s supplemental background investigation into assault allegations levied against Kavanaugh after he was nominated by former President Donald Trump to serve on the Supreme Court.

Read more at Washington Examiner.

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