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By Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt
Oct. 1, 2018
WASHINGTON The White House has authorized the F.B.I. to expand its abbreviated investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh by interviewing anyone it deems necessary as long the review is finished by the end of the week, two people briefed on the matter said on Monday.
The new directive came in the past 24 hours after a backlash from Democrats, who criticized the White House for limiting the scope of the bureaus investigation into President Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court. The F.B.I. has already completed interviews with the four witnesses its agents were originally asked to talk to, the people said.
The revised White House instruction amounted to a risky bet that the F.B.I. will not find anything new in the next four days that could change the public view of the allegations. Republicans have resisted an open-ended investigation that could head in unpredictable directions. But the limited time frame could minimize the danger even as it heightens the likelihood that F.B.I. interviews do not resolve the conflicting accounts.
Mr. Trump said he instructed his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, over the weekend to tell the F.B.I. to carry out an open investigation, although he included the caveat that it should accommodate the desires of Senate Republicans. Mr. McGahn followed through with a call to the F.B.I., according to the people briefed on the matter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/trump-fbi-kavanaugh.html
DFW
(54,465 posts)In other words, the FBI is free to turn up any evidence it can find that doesn't displease Chuck Grassley?
That's like saying fish are free to swim anywhere they want that doesn't involve water.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)reported out line by line to the Press,it will not be binding.