This Is No ‘Standard’ FBI Background Investigation
Background investigations are typically assignments for newly minted FBI special agents. Not the one under way involving the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
President Donald Trump, who has attacked the FBI and the Justice Department relentlessly over the ongoing Russia investigation, announced last week that he is essentially putting his full faith in the bureau to probe the sexual-assault allegations that have been made against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “I want them to do a very comprehensive investigation,” Trump reiterated on Monday. “Whatever that means, according to the senators and the Republicans and the Republican majority. I want them to do that.”
To say that a lot is riding on this investigation would be an understatement. The Republicans’ narrow majority in the Senate means that Republicans , Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, who are on
