Accuser Hasn’t Turned Over Key Information to Senate: Kavanaugh Lawyer

The woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982 has withheld key information from the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to Kavanaugh’s lawyer.

The accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, alleges that Kavanaugh assaulted her in the summer of 1982 in Maryland, where they both went to high school at the same time. She has not been able to specify a date, time, or place of the alleged incident, and all four people she has named as being present at the party have denied the claim.

Ford has not turned over key information related to the accusation, Kavanaugh’s lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, said on Wednesday, Sept. 26, during an appearance on CBS.

“They announced that there were notes and there had been a lie detector test but as I understand it, they did not turn any of those over to the Senate committee even though they were requested,” Wilkinson said. “So the information that would have shown what she said at the very first time when she revealed these allegations have not been turned over to the Senate.”

Discrepancy

The lawyer said the information is important because it’s believed there are discrepancies between Ford’s story, her therapist’s notes, and the lie detector test results.

“That’s very important because apparently in those notes, there’s a differing story about how many people were present at the party, there’s no mention of Judge Kavanaugh, and so all that information would be very important to determine whether there’s any corroboration of this allegation,” she said.

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Kavanaugh and the other three named people: Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth, and Leland Keyser, have all given personal testimony. Keyser, who described herself as a friend of Ford’s, has said she has never met Kavanaugh.

Ford’s therapist has said Ford discussed the alleged assault during the couple’s counseling in 2012 but described four males present when the assault occurred. Ford later said only two males—Kavanaugh and Judge—were present, and that the four people at the party besides herself included a woman, Keyser. The Washington Post, the only outlet Ford has personally conveyed her account to, reported at one point that Ford described six people in total at the party, but didn’t name the other alleged attendees.

Affidavits and Calendar Submitted

Ahead of Thursday’s scheduled public hearing, during which Ford and Kavanaugh are slated to be questioned by Democratic senators and an experienced sex-crimes prosecutor representing Republican senators, Ford submitted sworn affidavits from four people who said Ford told them about the alleged assault in 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2017, respectively.

Two affidavits, one from Ford’s husband, Russell Ford, and the other from the coach of their son’s baseball team, said Ford told them it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her, reported The Associated Press. The other two affidavits, from family friends, said that Ford described the alleged assault but described the perpetrator only as a federal judge.

Meanwhile, the calendar pages that Kavanaugh kept from 1982 were also submitted to the Judiciary committee and posted by news outlets.

Kavanaugh’s calendar pages showed that he was away most of the summer at the beach or with his parents, and extremely busy while in town with basketball games, football workouts, and college interviews.

From NTD.tv