The FBI's investigation of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will not pursue questions of whether Kavanaugh committed perjury in his claims to have never drank to the point of extreme inebriation, Bloomberg reports.
After initially setting tight restrictions on the probe, including reportedly telling the FBI that it could not get documents related to when Kavanaugh's friend and alleged accomplice Mark Judge worked as a Safeway bag boy, which would establish a timeline for the allegations made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the FBI will now look at all of Kavanaugh's purported sexual assaults.
However, investigators will not look at incidents such as the one in which Kavanaugh reportedly sparked a bar brawl by assaulting a man he thought was the singer of UB-40 by throwing ice at him.
"The White House hasn’t asked the FBI to do a full-throttle probe of Kavanaugh’s use of alcohol or whether he intentionally gave false testimony to the Senate committee," Bloomberg reports citing an anonymous source close to the White House.