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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat nobody's saying: All 6 FBI Kav investigations only went back to 1993.(no GP or Yale years)
According to the transcript of a Senate staffer phone call with Kavanaugh (9/26/18), the FBI has never questioned or investigated Kavanaugh on his life before 1993, presumably the year he became what seems a highly charged, protected Repub operative. The current accusations of sexual violence against women all occurred in the eighties at Georgetown Prep and Yale. So these six FBI investigations never investigated or questioned Kavanaugh or any of his classmates to provide any information at all about the
Kav eighties years now under vital examination.
How many times during the hearing and in interviews did Trump & the GOP Senators use these 6 FBI investigatioins as dodge & cover against reopening Kav's file. Even today it still appears that Trump,Grassly, McConnell etc are thwarting the FBi from investigating
accusors and witnesses to charges from these crucial, never investigated years: 1983-1993. And, by not allowing the FBI to reinterview Kavanaugh and question him on those years for which these accusations have been made, they pretty pointedly are protecting Kav from criminal charges when he lies to the FBI
https.//t.Co/khZG605jb4 (thank you, ehrnst for the link to the transcript the other day)
lapfog_1
(29,194 posts)they went back to when and where I was born.
They interviewed neighbors from when I was 3 or 4 years old.
All the way until the time of the background check... bank records, high school friends, middle school teachers, everything. They spent over 6 months on it.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)It looks like with Kavanaugh nothing before 1993, a fact both Kav and the Senate Staffer who called him seem to easily agree upon
and (curiously) find normal.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Makes sense...this clown is being protected from on high by the prince of darkness himself - McConnell - with a big help from Hell's court jester (Trump).
lapfog_1
(29,194 posts)stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)pnwmom
(108,973 posts)lapfog_1
(29,194 posts)I can't actually tell you what the security clearance was for, but let's say it would have been similar to Snowden.
I would think that the leaders of the government deserve / require just as thorough a background check.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)And in the hearings and interviews the Trump & GOP Senate not only failed to mention that the FBI had never investigated Kav in the 80's, they touted the SIX investigations as sufficient and thorough grounds for not investigating new evidence, charges or FBI requestioning Kavanaugh.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Remember, a very large chunk of documents related to Kavanaugh's career have been hidden away. I've seen estimates ranging up to 93%, but is in any case thousands and thousands of pages of his doings first in the 1990s as an elf in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater workshop, then in the 2000s as an operative in the Bush White House before being nominated for a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Grassley has reserved documents as "committee confidential," meaning that the members of the committee haven't been allowed to ask Kavanaugh about any of those documents in an open hearing. Grassley has refused to consider going in to executive (closed) session so that Kavanaugh can be questioned about his time on Starr's staff. The records pertaining to his work in Bush administration have been withheld from everyone under a dubious claim of executive privilege.
Has the FBI had access to any of these records? I don't know. But even if they have, there's no way the FBI can disclose anything that's in those records. Oddly, nobody in the media is talking very much about the paucity of actual records pertaining to Kavanaugh's career available to the committee or the public.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)came from 1993 and beyond.