This matter is investigating a potential Supreme - Court justice and they do investigate that Posted: Sep 19th, 2018 - 2:59 pm In Reply to: Isn't it amazing people don't even know the FBI only - investigates federal crimes?
If they're asked, in this case by the president since it's his candidate. (I think we know that because he's practically living at the White House no doubt getting schooled on how not to pull a Trump.)
Trump's statement that "it's not really what they do" is absolutely false.
From the link below:
"President Donald Trump has said the FBI doesn't want to investigate Christine Blasey Ford's assertion that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her, and that it's 'not what they do.'
In fact, the FBI could certainly investigate Ford's claim, but only if the White House asks the bureau to do so. She has no authority to request it. Neither does the Senate.
When the FBI conducts a background investigation of a presidential nominee, it vacuums up all kinds of information about the nominee, including claims from people interviewed by agents, and dumps it into the file. It does not, however, investigate whether or not derogatory information is true — unless it's asked to follow up by the White House. Several current and former Justice Department and FBI officials say this has always been the practice, and there is actually a longstanding formal memorandum of understanding between DOJ and the White House that specifies these limits...
And in this case, even assuming Ford's allegation to be true, there's no suggestion of a federal crime, quite apart from the statute of limitations issue. So the FBI has no independent authority to open a criminal investigation. Its only role here would be to re-open the Kavanaugh background investigation.
Additionally, some in the FBI, says a source familiar with their thinking, are annoyed by President Trump's statements that the FBI doesn't do this or this 'is not really their thing' when there are FBI agents who do nothing but interview sex crime victims."
They don't have independent authority, but Trump could settle this by allowing them to reopen the Kavanaugh background investigation.
We all know that will never happen. What is amazing is that Trump even managed to keep his mouth and tweeter shut for a day or two, it must be killing him.
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