Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to new Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting the Department of Justice review the investigation conducted during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, The Guardian reports.

After he was nominated to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault.  After she came forward, many other people came forward with accounts of drunken, sexually-loaded actions and comments by the nominee, most of which were not investigated and none of whom testified during the hearings.

Kavanaugh, who was combative and insulting during his confirmation hearings–including asking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee what alcohol they liked to drink after declaring that he has an unhealthy affection for beer–denied accusations of any wrongdoing when he was in high school, college and law school.

During his confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh made many transparently false statements, including claiming that he was of legal age to drink while he attended Georgetown Preparatory as well as the definition of a “devil’s triangle.”

Whitehouse notes that a number of people who called the FBI to give accounts of Kavanaugh’s behavior and character could not find anyone at the Bureau to take their statements.  Though the FBI established a “tip line” for information, none of that information was provided to Senators.

“This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster,” he said.

“This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse said.