Why Should this not be Considered a Scandal?

    To me, the failure to fully investigate the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh mark the investigation . . .
   As a scandal.
   In a nation that believes in due process, due process was not followed. Due process means going through all the steps of justice, and of being fair, and of not skipping some of the process in order to steer the outcome.
   I do not know that if you find Kavanaugh guilty, it means you do not confirm him. Perhaps you go ahead and confirm him, anyway. But if you are looking into accusations of sexual misconduct, you look fully to find the truth.
   You do not sweep the allegations under a rug, by refusing to hear one witness (Julie Swetnick) because someone says she is an unreliable witness. This is an investigation. If you have a lead, you follow it. You interview everyone you can find who attended those parties Swetnick spoke of.
  Nor do you sweep the accusations under a rug by declining to interview those referred to you by one of the witnesses. Deborah Ramirez was interviewed by the FBI, but none of those who she suggested could collaborate her story were interviewed. Why? If fairness and justice is all you seek, why do you not interview them?
   There are a number of other ways you can seek to justify sweeping the whole thing under a rug. You can attack Christine Blasey Ford, saying she is just making the accusation because she's a Democrat, or because she was paid, or because she was part of a conspiracy against Kavanaugh, or because she was mentally unstable, or because she was assaulted by someone else, not Kavanaugh.
   Sweeping it under the rug may require an excuse, but you can find one.
   It was reported from the start that it would be a "limited" investigation. It is believed only 10 people were allowed by the White House to be interviewed. The FBI did not even interview the two principles, Kavanaugh and Ford.
   In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, only one of those making an allegation was allowed to testify, thus minimizing the damage to be done.
   These are not criminal charges. But, if they were, and such efforts to shade the outcome were taken. It would be obstruction of justice. Easily.
   We have not heard the term, government cover-up, used much -- if at all. But, I don't know why this doesn't qualify. Both the legislative and executive branches have done things to brush over and disregard accusations from being investigated and considered. They have tried to put, and succeeded in putting,  a lid on the accusations and to cover them so they would not even be fully taken into consideration in the Kavanaugh confirmation process. A cover up is a cover up. What else is this?
   So, I do not know why this all isn't being discussed in terms of being a scandal, why that term isn't being used.