White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said oversight of the investigation belonged to the Senate. “The White House counsel has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is,” she said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The White House isn’t intervening. Calls for an FBI investigation of Kavanaugh mounted after California professor Christine Blasey Ford alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party when they were teenagers. The panel voted Friday in favour of Kavanaugh, along party lines, and Flake then offered his proposal for the FBI investigation. The investigators will compile information about Kavanaugh’s past and provide their findings to the White House and include the information in Kavanaugh’s background file, which is available to senators.

Source: National Post September 30, 2018 04:38 UTC