What Joe Biden said at Clarence Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearing has come back to haunt Democrats. (The Daily Caller)
Then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden urged senators in 1991 not to rely on an FBI report about Clarence Thomas, who had been accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.
Biden said that the FBI compiles interviews and does not come to a conclusion, but rather make recommendations based on their findings.
“The next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything obviously doesn’t understand anything,” Biden said during Thomas’s confirmation hearing. “The FBI explicitly does not in this or any other case reach a conclusion, period. So, judge, there is no reason why you should know this. The reason why we cannot rely on the FBI report — you wouldn’t like it if we did, because it is inconclusive.”
“They say, ‘he said, she said, and they said,’ period,” he continued. “So when people wave an FBI report before you, understand they do not, they do not, they do not reach conclusions. They do not make, as my friend points out more accurately, they do not make recommendations.”
Biden now insists the FBI probe an allegation against Brett Kavanaugh from 35 years ago.
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