Former FBI director James Comey has weighed in on the Brett Kavanaugh investigation, calling the one week deadline the agency has been given as 'idiotic'.
In an op-ed in The New York Times on Sunday, Comey approved of the reopening of the FBI's background check into the Supreme Court nominee following the Senate hearing this week.
Comey said it was 'idiotic to put a shot clock on the FBI', but admitted a seven-day investigation was better than none at all.
'Although the process is deeply flawed, and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process, the FBI is up for this. It's not as hard as Republicans hope it will be,' Comey said.
Former FBI director James Comey (right) has weighed in on the Brett Kavanaugh (left) investigation, calling the one week deadline the agency has been given as 'idiotic'
'FBI agents are experts at interviewing people and quickly dispatching leads to their colleagues around the world to follow with additional interviews. Unless limited in some way by the Trump administration, they can speak to scores of people in a few days, if necessary.'
He went on to say agents had much better 'nonsense detectors' than partisans.
'Yes, the alleged incident occurred 36 years ago. But FBI agents know time has very little to do with memory. They know every married person remembers the weather on their wedding day, no matter how long ago. Significance drives memory.
'They also know that little lies point to bigger lies. They know that obvious lies by the nominee about the meaning of words in a yearbook are a flashing signal to dig deeper.'
Comey said it was very different having a lawyer submit a statement on your behalf to being grilled by FBI agents in person.
Trump ordered the FBI investigation after Thursday's Senate hearing, during which Dr Christine Blasey Ford detailed her claims that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party in 1982
The publication of the op-ed came soon after President Trump started bashing Democrats for questioning the timing and scope of the FBI probe
He noted that at the conclusion of the FBI investigation it was likely either the Democrat or Republicans, or perhaps both, would be angry with the FBI.
'The president will condemn the bureau for being a corrupt nest of Clinton-lovers if they turn up bad facts. Maybe Democrats will similarly condemn agents as Trumpists if they don't,' he said.
'Despite all the lies and all the attacks, there really are people who just want to figure out what's true. The FBI is full of them.'
The publication of the op-ed came soon after President Trump started bashing Democrats for questioning the timing and scope of the FBI probe.
'Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the 'time' and 'scope' of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello! For them, it will never be enough - stay tuned and watch!,' Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon.
Democrats have raised concerns about the limited number of witnesses being questioned by the FBI, but Trump officials have said the White House is not 'micromanaging' the probe.
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