I believed Dr. Ford experienced sexual assault at some point in her life. After reading the letter her lawyers sent to yesterday, I don't believe her anymore. At the beginning of her testimony, she said:
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"My motivation coming forward was to be helpful and to provide facts about how Mr. Kavanaugh's actions have damaged my life... It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court, my responsibility is to tell you the truth."
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But yesterday, her lawyers stated they would not provide requested documents to the FBI that would support her testimony. They would hold on to them in an effort to strong arm the FBI to interview her (even though she had already been interviewed under oath).
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If Dr. Ford's goal was truly as she stated above, that she wanted to be helpful, she would have handed over the documents so the FBI would have the "facts." If you've already put your name out there and testified in front of the whole country, and it was true, you'd cooperate.
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Then I thought maybe her lawyers were keeping information from her (e.g. her confusion upon being told the committee offered to come to her so she didn't have to fly). But that would mean that she hadn't been watching any coverage, she would have had to have been sequestered.
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Unless they threw her in a locked room with no access to the media and no communication with the outside world, there's no way she didn't know the FBI was requesting documents for their investigation, which means she was involved in the decision to withhold the documents.
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And that's not something a survivor of sexual assault would do if her intention was to "be helpful and provide facts." It's just not logical. And it's a disgrace to sexual assault survivors who do speak out. /endrant
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It is just an odd thing for her to require, because the FBI isn't going to evaluate the documents. They will take them look at them and hand them to the Senate Judiciary Committee to evaluate and judge
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Exactly! Why go through all that and then not cooperate? Those therapists notes need to be subpoenaed.
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