James Roche says he reached out to the FBI and discussed Kavanaugh's college drinking habits. Mark Judge (rt) did speak to the FBI

FBI Wraps Up Background Investigation  and Sends it to Senate. Just NINE interviews to clear Kavanaugh: Outrage grows over tiny scale of FBI probe that found nominee is NOT a sex abuser – with dozens saying they wanted to give evidence.

• Senators began reviewing the documents Thursday morning.



 Sen. Chuck Grassley (above), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, arranged for senators to view the FBI report on Kavanaugh on Thursday. Grassley got briefed on the report Thursday morning.

Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti said 'six very damaging witnesses' were never interviewed
• Debbie Ramirez, who alleges Kavanaugh exposed himself to her, provided list of 20 potential witnesses. Lawyers for Ramirez wrote FBI director Chris Wray to complain that after agents interviewed Ramirez for two hours, they failed to follow up on leads she provided.



Protesters outside the Supreme Court

• Kavanaugh's college roommate James Roche wrote an op-ed Wednesday stating Kavanaugh was 'frequently, incoherently drunk' and that he was 'willing to speak with' the FBI
• The White House expressed confidence early Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh will win his Supreme Court confirmation fight.
• The Supreme Court nominee is to get a procedural vote on Friday.
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• Key swing Republican Susan Collins (rt.) says FBI probe "seems very thorough" and Jeff Flake says there is no extra corroboration. But both refuse to say how they will vote.
• Democrats have asked to see a copy of the directive that was sent to the bureau for the sake of transparency, but have been brushed off.

  Senate Democrats fume that the report  was 'limited' and 'incomplete' and accused the White House of constraining agents from questioning both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, whose own attorneys called it a 'stain on the FBI.'

  Democrats have repeatedly questioned why more witnesses weren’t interviewed by FBI agents, who were reported to have only spoke to nine people in their five-day review of allegations against Kavanaugh.

  Democratic Sen. Ed Markey charged that the White House and Senate Republicans orchestrated a halfhearted FBI probe to protect Kavanaugh.

  'It's obviously a cover-up,' Markey told CNN. 'The Trump White House, working with the Republican leadership in the Senate, have deliberately circumscribed this investigation.'

  This whole thing is a sham. This stunted, strangled investigation was designed to provide cover, not to provide the truth,' 

Mitch McConnell is promising a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination as soon as Friday. McConnell keeps his focus on his goal of filling federal court vacancies with conservatives. His right wing goal's success would be climaxed by this, the second conservative judge appointed in little over a year. He will have secured a legacy of reshaping the courts to the right for at least the next twenty years.