The FBI ignored classmates who had direct testimony about sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh

At 2:30 AM ET, the White House officially announced that the FBI investigation into allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was complete. At this moment, the report generated by the FBI in their five day effort is sealed in a box. And the box is locked in a vault. On Thursday morning, senators will be allowed a brief one-at-a-time peek into the contents of that box … so long as they don’t tell anyone, ever, what they saw inside. Or “characterize” the contents in any way. Because the White House has already done that for them. If this sounds more like the set up for a carnival sideshow, or a massive practical joke, than a justice system, that’s because joke or sham or travesty or simply bullsh#t seems like the best way to describe the effort that was put into looking at the truth of Brett Kavanaugh’s actions.

Last night, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow were back with another New Yorker article to spell out what everyone already knows: Even describing this as a “cursory” investigation isn’t accurate. It’s more like a curse.

Frustrated potential witnesses who have been unable to speak with the F.B.I agents conducting the investigation into sexual-assault allegations against Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have been resorting to sending statements, unsolicited, to the Bureau and to senators, in hopes that they would be seen before the inquiry concluded.

Of the more than 20 witnesses to her assault named by Deborah Ramirez, it appears that the FBI has spoken to exactly none. For Ramirez, it doesn’t feel like she’s being heard, but as if “she’s being silenced.” To avoid following up on this crime, the FBI had to evade attempts of contact from Kavanaugh’s college roommate, who was ready to testify to Kavanaugh’s drinking and belligerence. They also had to ignore the outreach of a man whose dorm room connected to that of Kavanaugh—and whose testimony directly corroborates Ramierz.

Appold, who is the James Hastings Nichols Professor of Reformation History at Princeton Theological Seminary, said that he first heard about the alleged incident involving Kavanaugh and Ramirez either the night it occurred or a day or two later. Appold said that he was “one-hundred-per-cent certain” that he was told that Kavanaugh was the male student who exposed himself to Ramirez.

What’s 100 percent certain now, is that the FBI did not talk to Appold.