Dem vows to probe 'why the FBI stood down' on Kavanaugh
By Tal Axelrod - 09/20/18 05:23 PM EDT
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) vowed Thursday that if Democrats take control of the House or Senate in November they would launch a probe into the FBI's handling of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Whitehouse said during an interview on CNN's "The Lead" that Democrats would “get to the bottom†of what happened between Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford at a high school party in the early 1980s where Ford claims Kavanaugh assaulted her.
Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations after Ford came forward on Sunday, and both have indicated that they are willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee sometime next week.
“I think we’ll also be investigating why the FBI stood down its background investigation when it came up in this particular background,†Whitehouse said on CNN.
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