A group of Democratic senators are demanding more answers from the FBI after the agency revealed new details about the limited scope of its supplemental investigation into the background of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In a June 30 letter to Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Chris Coons, D-Del., made public Thursday, Jill Tyson of the FBI's congressional affairs office acknowledged the department
only conducted 10 additional interviews during its supplemental investigation into Kavanaugh, despite receiving over 4,500 tips.
Lawyers for the Kavanaugh accuser who testified at his confirmation hearing, Christine Blasey Ford, said in a statement that the new FBI letter confirmed the agency's investigation was "a sham and a major institutional failure."
"Because the FBI and Trump's White House Counsel hid the ball on this, we do not know how many of those 4,500 tips were consequential how many of those tips supported Dr. Ford's testimony, or how many showed that Kavanaugh perjured himself during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee," said the attorneys, Debra S. Katz and Lisa J. Banks. "Our nation deserved better.'
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