On the Kavanaugh Investigation: Spend the Last Day Doing it Right

  That the FBI investigation into allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is wrapping up a day early is interesting. They have seven days, and there is enough to investigate that you could spend more time than that. My hope is that Jeff Flake will look at the report, and say, "You have a day and a half left. Could you go back and get us more information on this and this?"
  The investigation is ending early, and that is an indication it has been limited. It will take someone to say, "Go get more," for FBI agents to be allowed to dig deeper, for the FBI can only go as far as it is authorized to go -- only as far as President Trump lets it. If Flake spots things needing a deeper poke, and demands that they be looked into, Trump may not be in position to decline him.
   Whether this is what the FBI is aiming for, I doubt it. If it were, they probably would have left at least one more day to work with. Still, I can see how this could happen. The door is now open for the senators to overview what hasn't been done, and to demand that those matters be pursued.
   Perhaps it is the Democrat senators who will spot the areas needing more poking into -- not Flake. If so, that will be unfortunate, as Flake is going to be listened to while the Democrats are not.
   Ask the agents to interview Julie Swetnick. When you investigate crimes, you don't dismiss some of the leads, you pursue them all. If nothing more, Swetnick is a witness that Kavanaugh did attend parties of the nature Ford says she was attacked at. If Kavanaugh is saying he didn't attend parties fitting the description Ford offered, of course this should be included in the investigation.
  Go back and interview both Ford and Kavanaugh. They are the participants. Saying their testimonies were given at the hearing is certainly short of providing a full investigation. It's not so unlike police officers investigating a well-publicized crime saying they are not going to interview the participants because the press has already interviewed them and their stories have been received. You, as the FBI agents, are the ones trained to ask the right questions, The senators are not. And, their representative at the hearings, Rachel Mitchell, was bought and paid for by the Republicans. Of course you go back and interview the participants.