Whataboutism is when someone defends a bad action from one side by suggesting something else was equivalent.
I'm not doing that here. I think Joe Biden had a good point on the limits of FBI investigations.
It is worth noting that the George HW Bush White House claimed that the FBI investigation cleared Clarence Thomas.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...05ecb2688fc0f5
So it seems massively hypocritical for the left to suggest that an FBI investigation will get to the bottom of what happened with Kavanaugh and Ford, when they don't trust the results of the one on Justice Thomas.
In the case of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, the situation fell in the FBI's purview, covering a harassment claim between employees of a federal agency. We're dealing with events 30+ years ago involving witnesses who were inebriated, which is much harder to parse out.
It seems more like a delaying tactic, especially since Dianne Feinstein sat on the Ford letter for over a month. Democrats get to benefit from her poor judgement and their leaks to the press which ultimately led to Ford going public when she did, which is self-serving.
There are many other avenues through which this can be investigated and information can come to light. The Times and New Yorker looked into the Ramirez claims. Democrats have budgets to hire investigators. This is a very public story, so any Yale alumni or anyone in the Georgetown Prep area at the time who saw anything should be aware that there's a lot of support if they come forward.