Request Needed From Unwilling WH For FBI To Investigate Ford’s Accusation

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21 : President Donald J. Trump speaks during a working lunch with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday, June 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Wa... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21 : President Donald J. Trump speaks during a working lunch with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday, June 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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For the FBI to thoroughly investigate professor Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the agency needs the White House to request it—and the Trump administration does not seem inclined to kickstart the process.

According to a Monday Bloomberg report, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are clamoring for the investigation, but the FBI says it cannot go forward without the request.

Despite the seemingly scant evidence, the FBI is accustomed to finding information with little to go on, should they ever get the go ahead.

“You can go get yearbooks and start interviewing high school classmates,” former senior FBI agent and Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund president Ronald Hosko told Bloomberg. “For creative-minded FBI people, they can generate leads all day long.”

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  1. One more case of obstructing justice (albeit for a different case…).

    Dog, I am so sick of these people. A pox on them all.

  2. “Only the best rapists!” - Donald Trump

  3. “Everything Trump touches dies.”
    — Rick Wilson

    Meanwhile, Kavanaugh has lawyered up. Why? It’s not to fight the allegations of attempted rape. The statute of limitations on that lapsed long ago.

    That means the only reasonable explanation is that he’s gearing up to fight charges of lying to Congress and his subsequent impeachment and removal from the bench, the poor bastard.

    “Would you like fries with that?”
    — Brett Kavanaugh, in his next career.

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