Commotion: Brett Kavanaugh Background Investigation

In late July, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tweeted, "[W]e were spun by Director Wray and the FBI in the Kavanaugh background investigation and hearing." 

The tweet contained a link to a press release and a response letter crafted by Whitehouse and several other senators, written to Director Christopher Wray. The letter details the bureau's failure to investigate some 4,500 tips sent in during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. Whitehouse et al also accused the FBI of handing over the tips to the Trump White House – the "very office that appears to have constrained the FBI from conducting a thorough investigation."

This prompted social media users to speculate that the FBI investigation was a scam.