The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel accused Democrats of misleading the public in regards to the FBI’s role in investigating the sexual assault allegations levied against Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday afternoon.
1) GOP needs to do better calling BS on Democratic demands for an “FBI investigation.” FBI background checks of nominees involve interviewing people, and putting results in a file. The report goes to WH/Senate, solely for guidance. FBI isn’t sleuthing “crimes” in these checks.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 18, 2018
According to Strassel, the FBI conducts background checks of judicial nominees. It then compiles a report on each nominee and passed it to the White House and Senate. (RELATED: Kimberly Strassel Picks Apart Feinstein’s Kavanaugh Letter: ‘Timing Here Cannot Be Ignored’)
2) As FBI has said, it has put her detailed claims in the file. (And she has been invited to testify.) That is the FBI’s job done. As FBI has noted, any other “investigation” would be handled by local law enforcement–that is if statute of limitations were not long past.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 18, 2018
As Strassel points out, it would be unusual for the FBI to investigate the allegations.
Further, the Justice Department said it’s not the FBI’s job to judge the credibility of the accusation, and they also said that the FBI referred the allegations to the White House counsel, according to the Associated Press.
3) Democrats know this, and are willfully misleading by suggesting FBI has a different role here. That is not how it works. It would in fact be wildly irregular for FBI to do anything more than it has, and would look highly political .
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 18, 2018
Strassel concluded the twitter thread saying, “Democrats know this, and are willfully misleading by suggesting FBI has a different role here. That is not how it works.”
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