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With time running out for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to commit to some form of testimony with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) spent their Wednesday evening broadcasts giving a boost to Democratic calls for an investigation into the Supreme Court nominee. Of course, they failed in their duty to inform their viewers that the FBI had already declined to investigate when the charges were brought to them over the weekend.
The closest any of them came to admitting that fact was when CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor noted that “[t]he bureau has no plans to do that right now.” But that didn’t stop CBS chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes from pushing the Democratic demand for an FBI investigation right now.
After playing a soundbite of President Trump saying “it would seem that the FBI really doesn't do that”, Cordes declared “Democrats said the FBI does.” And while she did admit that committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) offered Ford “a buffet of ways to tell her story”, she huffed about how “Republicans oppose the one option Democrats say would lead to the truth.”
“The FBI did examine Anita Hill's harassment claims against Clarence Thomas in 1991,” she added. That may be true, but the FBI declined to investigate when Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) brought the charges to the bureau over the weekend.
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