In a letter to newly-confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) suggested that the “FBI’s Background Investigation” into the sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a “fake investigation.” Whitehouse wrote that the investigation “appears to have been a politically-constrained and perhaps fake FBI investigation into alleged misconduct by now-Supreme
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