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In reply to the discussion: Kavanaugh accuser speaks out: [View all]Gothmog
(183,517 posts)1. She needs to get to testify
This is a big deal. This lady needs to be allowed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/16/kavanaugh-accuser-speaks-out-publicly/
Speaking publicly for the first time, Christine Blasey Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a friend both stumbling drunk corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County, the Washington Post reports.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
Also interesting: She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
Also interesting: She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
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I understood it was her name she didn't want made public - not the accusation
Bradshaw3
Sep 2018
#26
Oh. I guess she couldn't ask, because she couldn't identify the accuser. nt
Honeycombe8
Sep 2018
#60
Kavanaugh in trouble now, GOP can no longer attack an anonymous letter but there is now a face to it
sunonmars
Sep 2018
#11
Now we know why the GOP had that "letter" ready to back him....They knew he was a predator.
sunonmars
Sep 2018
#13
She took a polygraph. Has it in therapists' notes twice years ago. And now begins the retaliation...
Honeycombe8
Sep 2018
#48