FBI Director Confirms Agency Sent Tips from Kavanaugh Tip Line to Trump White House Without Investigation
The Trump White House also determined which witnesses the FBI should interview. 4,500 tips to FBI went uninvestigated.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today received confirmation from #FBI #Director Christopher #Wray that the FBI sent #tips that the agency had collected about Supreme Court Justice Brett #Kavanaugh to the Trump White House without #investigation. The tips were collected through the FBI’s existing tip line as part of a supplemental background investigation after allegations of sexual #misconduct emerged during Justice Kavanaugh’s 2018 #confirmation process.
Wray also confirmed that the Trump #White #House directed which #witnesses the #FBI was #permitted to #interview.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/fbi-director-confirms-agency-sent-tips-from-kavanaugh-tip-line-to-trump-white-house-without-investigation