He wants video of polygraph test too
Grassley Demands To See Christine Blasey Ford’s Therapy Notes
One mental health expert said it would be “inappropriate” for senators to view all of Ford’s records.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) demanded on Tuesday that
Christine Blasey Ford’s attorneys provide additional materials about her sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,
The Wall Street Journal reported.
In a letter to the attorneys, Grassley declared that Ford has “put Judge Kavanaugh on trial before the nation.”
Grassley requested to see the notes Ford’s therapist took in a session in which she detailed the alleged attack, a recording of a lie detector test she took and copies of her exchanges with news media.
Ford, now a psychology professor, maintains that Kavanaugh pinned her down and attempted to remove her clothing while grinding against her at a party in 1982. The chairman’s request comes five days after she shared her story in a
widely televised committee hearing.
Grassley accused Ford’s attorneys of withholding the information, according to The Wall Street Journal, which viewed the two-page letter.
Portions of the therapist’s notes were included in a Sept. 16
Washington Post report on the alleged attack. Ford chose to show the paper the notes to bolster her claim. Although they do not mention Kavanaugh by name, the notes say she was attacked by teens “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” She has said that Mark Judge, a friend of Kavanaugh’s, was also in the room at the time.
She discussed the alleged assault in a 2012 therapy session with her husband after her anxiety ― which she believes stems from the alleged attack ― interfered with a home renovation.
Notes from an individual therapy session in 2013 describe a “rape attempt” in Ford’s teens.
Critics,
including Grassley, have used slight discrepancies between the therapist’s notes and Ford’s testimony to suggest that the episode did not happen as she says it did. In one instance, the therapist wrote that the alleged rape attempt happened in Ford’s “late” teens. She told the committee she was 15 years old at the time.
Ford’s attorneys did not return HuffPost’s request for comment on Grassley’s letter.
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