What we know and do not know about the FBI investigation in Kavanaugh's confirmation

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What we know and do not know about the FBI investigation in Kavanaugh's confirmation







While the senators on the Capitol analyze the FBI background investigation into the alleged sexual misconduct of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, questions have been raised about what limits the White House It may have placed over the investigation.





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Two of the five senators with turn-based votes in the Kavanaugh nomination, Susan Collins of Maine and Jeff Flake of Arizona, both appear satisfied with the FBI's investigation, calling it "very complete" and, more importantly, they say they have seen there is no new information to corroborate it, while the leading democrats are criticizing the report as "incomplete" and "very limited".





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Senate Judiciary Committee member, Republican Jeff Flake, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 28, 2018, about the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be associate judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Last Friday, the White House granted the FBI a period of one week to complete the background investigation, a time frame agreed by the Senate, Republicans and Democrats.



The FBI contacted 10 people in total and interviewed 9 of those 10, however, neither Judge Kavanaugh nor Dr. Christine Blasey Ford were interviewed. The White House has said its public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week and its affidavits were sufficient. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said Republican senators were informed in their report on the FBI report that the tenth witness refused to be interviewed.





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Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing before the Supreme Court in the Dirksen Senate Office building on Capitol Hill, on September 27, 2018, in Washington.

The FBI was authorized by the White House to interview whoever it wanted, but with a limited focus on two claims of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh: one by Dr. Ford, the other by Deborah Ramirez, sources close to the investigation said.



Ford testified before Congress last week that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of exposing herself to her at a drunken dorm party when they both attended Yale. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied these accusations.



Ford's legal team sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday, asking why his agents did not interview Ford, as well as other witnesses who said they would have challenged Kavanaugh's testimony, including Ford's husband and his wife. polygraph examiner. They also said that Ford would have provided his medical and telephone records.





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Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 27, 2018.

The allegations of sexual misconduct raised by a third woman, Julie Swetnick, were not in the scope of the FBI background check because the White House and Republicans in the Senate judiciary felt their testimony was not credible, sources said. .



Administration officials said they made it clear to the FBI that the background investigation was not a criminal investigation or "fishing expedition." Neither Kavanaugh's drinking behavior nor the veracity of his testimony before Congress were express purposes of the investigation of the eleventh hour.



Most of the week-long FBI supplemental research seemed to have focused on trying to corroborate Dr. Ford's claim to high school. Five of the witnesses interviewed by the FBI were related to that period of time, ABC News confirmed.



The White House specifically requested four people to interview the FBI: friends from Kavanaugh High School, Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth; Leland Keyser, who Ford claimed was at the party where the alleged assault occurred; and Ramírez, whose attorneys provided a list of more than 20 additional witnesses to interview. The FBI also interviewed Christopher "Squi" Garrett and Timothy "Timmy" Gaudette, another classmate of Kavanaugh who appeared in the July 1 calendar entry. ABC News has not confirmed the identities of the other three people interviewed by the FBI.





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This undated photo, provided by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, shows Deborah Ramírez. 

As for Ramírez's complaint, her legal team confirmed that she was interviewed by the FBI for two hours last Sunday, but complained that the agents did not take her list of 20 possible additional witnesses seriously. A White House official energetically suggested that the FBI contacted at least one other person related to the Yale complaint in addition to Ramírez, but did not confirm the identity. ABC News has not been able to confirm independently that any of the witnesses have been contacted.



The FBI has refused to comment on the investigation.

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