Connect the Dots 101

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KavanaughReport_final.pdf

…After hearing testimony by Ford and Kavanaugh, the Judiciary Committee agreed to request that the FBI
conduct a supplemental background investigation, “limited to current credible allegations against” Kavanaugh, before the full Senate voted on his confirmation…The Committee also agreed that the investigation would be completed within one week.16 Upon direction from the White House, the FBI conducted ten interviews, concluded its investigation, and submitted all the information it gathered to the White House…

Far from getting to the bottom of the allegations against Kavanaugh, the supplemental background investigation
performed by the FBI raised additional questions about the thoroughness of the FBI’s review and whether its
scope had been purposely curtailed….

The report’s conclusions are:

• First, the Senate’s reliance on the FBI’s supplemental background investigation
  to inform its constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme
  Court was misplaced. Multiple Senators expressly cited the supplemental background investigation’s apparent
  inability to uncover corroborating evidence of the allegations against Kavanaugh as a ground for voting to confirm Kavanaugh. Yet the supplemental background investigation was fawed and incomplete, as the FBI did not follow up on numerous leads that could have produced potentially corroborating or otherwise relevant information.
• Second, while President Trump publicly claimed the FBI had “free rein” to take any investigative steps it deemed necessary, the Trump White House exercised total control over the scope of the investigation, preventing the
  FBI from interviewing relevant witnesses and following up on tips. The White House refused to authorize basic investigatory steps that might have uncovered information corroborating the allegation