Remember that insultingly not-real FBI “investigation” of Brett Kavanaugh? Some of the Dems want to look into it. I don’t think it will make any difference, because He’s on the Court now and them’s the rules, buddy – you’re stuck with him no matter how dishonest and rigged the process was. I don’t think it will make any difference but it would be something to have the record show what happened.

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator and former prosecutor who serves on the judiciary committee, is calling on the newly-confirmed attorney general, Merrick Garland, to help facilitate “proper oversight” by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.

We all know it was not thoroughly at all. It was over a weekend or something, and it ignored report after report after report of sleaze and worse.

The FBI was called to investigate the allegations during the Senate confirmation process but was later accused by some Democratic senators of conducting an incomplete background check. For example, two key witnesses – Ford and Kavanaugh – were never interviewed as part of the inquiry.

Just for one tiny example of leaving out the subject and his accuser.

Among the concerns listed in Whitehouse’s letter to Garland are allegations that some witnesses who wanted to share their accounts with the FBI could not find anyone at the bureau who would accept their testimony and that it had not assigned any individual to accept or gather evidence.

Which was all too obvious at the time, since the whole process ended an hour or two after it began. They didn’t have time to investigate all the claims we knew were being made. It was infuriating.

“This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse said.

So how is that an “investigation”?

He added that, once the FBI decided to create a “tip line”, senators were not given any information on how or whether new allegations were processed and evaluated. While senators’ brief review of the allegations gathered by the tip line showed a “stack” of information had come in, there was no further explanation on the steps that had been taken to review the information, Whitehouse said.

“This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster,” he said.

It sounds more like a Warner Brothers cartoon than an FBI investigation.