I'd Like to Hear Chris Wray Explain Why the FBI Used This Memo to Avoid Investigating Brett Kavanaug

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I'd Like to Hear Christopher Wray Explain Why the FBI Used This Memo to Avoid Investigating Brett Kavanaugh

It looks like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will see to it that he does.



By Charles P. Pierce

Sep 14, 2021



...............................But I will be watching with interest later this week when FBI Director Christopher Wray goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be questioned about the shake-and-bake investigation that the FBI did into Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh back in 2018. The FBI interviewed neither Ford nor Kavanaugh in the course of that largely ad hoc exercise.

Heretofore, Wray and the FBI have relied upon a now 11-year-old Memorandum of Understanding that they said limited the Bureau’s ability to conduct such an investigation. But, as The Guardian reports, this cover may be a threadbare one.
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But an examination by the Guardian of the 2010 MOU, which was signed by the then attorney general, Eric Holder, and then White House counsel, Robert Bauer, does not make explicitly clear that the FBI was restricted in terms of how it would conduct its investigation. .....................................

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One of the senators bulldogging this issue is Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who’s interested in a number of unresolved issues regarding the Kavanaugh confirmation—including, intriguingly, the questions surrounding the evaporation of Kavanaugh’s heavy personal debts. Whitehouse is pretty clearly out of patience with Wray and with the FBI.



In a statement to the Guardian, Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island who has led Democrats’ demand for answers on the investigation, said: “In its years-late response to our questions, the FBI leaned hard on the notion that this MOU limited its authority to be the FBI and investigate wrongdoing. Now that we have the MOU, it’s even harder to understand the Bureau’s excuses for ignoring credible information it received. Director Wray ought to be ready to answer my questions about this episode – I won’t stop asking until he does.”
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judge brett kavanaugh is sworn in during his us senate judiciary committee confirmation hearing to be an associate justice on the us supreme court, on capitol hill in washington, dc, september 4, 2018 president donald trump's newest supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is expected to face punishing questioning from democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion photo by saul loeb afp photo credit should read saul loebafp via getty images
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[Dawson Leery]

1. So would I.

Biden should have dumped Wray on January 21.

[DURHAM D]

2. Agree,

Do you know if there are any women who could fill his position?


After today's testimony from the gymnasts about Nassar and the corrupt FBI they need a giant fix.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Every director has been a member of the GOP.

It it time for a Democrat to lead.

[Skittles]

3. link?

thanks

[JohnSJ]

4. Why is Wray still the director?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Between Kavanaugh and the hearing today with the Olympic gymnast, it seems obvious

to me that the FBI thought their mission was to support and protect the white male agenda.