If fords testimony is true, and her intentions are to advise the legislature about Kavanaugh...then why is she not releasing her “proof” (the audio recording of the polygraph, and the therapists notes) to the judicial committee for review?
If someone tried to rape you, and was about to be seated on the Supreme Court...why hide the only evidence you have?
Why does this post immediately bring to mind the
Alabama Literacy Test........
SMH
The audio recording of the polygraph and the therapist notes are not "evidence" of anything except that she took a polygraph and sat with a therapist. And
we already know that. Those are
not in dispute.
She states that she will do so, as long as the FBI questions her, which is convieniently one of the believed restrictions on the FBI in this case. Huh, isn’t that interesting. What is also interesting is that by demanding the FBI question her after she already gave her testimony, means that she apparently purgoured herself in the original testimony if she has something different to tell the FBI.
No it does not mean that because there's no reason to ass-sume 'she has something different to tell the FBI'. You just made that up.
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Oh no no no, pogo. We only got selective elements from the polygraph (one answer to the question “is this statement [letter she typed up describing the event]) correct?”. This is atypical of a polygraph exam, she described the test as being 3 hours, I believe. 3 hours for just one question? Sure there are control questions that are to be sprinkled in these types of things like, what’s your name, what’s today’s date, etc. But there’s definitely not 2 hours and 45 mins worth of control questions. She at one point edited the statement too. My guess is she was indicating deception, and went back to edited some things (in her own letter) to help her pass that one question. Something is fishy here about this polygraph, either there were many more questions asked about this event they did not wish to share, or it took her approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes to pass on that one question. That question being very oddly worded referring to a written statement, not specifically to the event. Usually in polygraphs (or any type of investigative line of questioning), the examiner/investigator will ask many questions in different forms, from different angles, different levels of specifity etc, in order to confirm consistency, and avoid leaving loopholes. One question about a written statement? Come on now. Let’s also not forget that polygraphs are basically pseudoscience, which is why they are not admissible in court. Can someone spot a lie using it, sure, never 100% though. True efficacy in the polygraph comes from convincing people that it is 99% effective (it isn’t), so that they feel they have to tell the truth. It’s also a test that is left up to the “interpretation” of the examiner. Basically if you’re pretty sure someone is lying about something, hook them up to the polygraph, and then accuse them of lying, then they’ll hopefully fess up. It’s all dependent on physiological indicators like heart rate, BP, respiration, perspiration etc. Lying is not even close to the only thing that causes changes in these readings. They are also a lot easier to “beat” than people think. You don’t have to be a specially trained CIA operative to “beat” one, it’s incredibly simple. One more thing to add here, exactly ZERO attorneys will ever turn to specialist (doctors, psychologists, etc), including polygraph examiners, that they’re are not sure of how “friendly” they’ll be to their case. They are paying for these specialist, to help them win, not loose. It’s a very lucrative side gig to be a “go to” specialist for these attorneys. So, for as many problems I have with using a polygraph itself, even if you believe in the validity of polygraphs...this is a very very odd test if it indeed was only in reference to one single question.
Moving on to the therapists notes. Fords reason for seeing the therapist was claimed to be to settle a dispute between her and her husband. The dispute came because her husband did not understand her need to install a second front door. She apparently developed a fear of only having one door to escape after this alleged incidence with Judge Kav. Which is why she went into detail about this event, supposedly. What we actually found out was that they remolded their house so Ford could open an in-house psych practice with a separate entrance and office, that also doubled as a room to rent out to students and such. This remodeling was done 4 years prior to this therapy session. So, already we’re seeing pretty clear deception in Fords account, and it’s clearly in attempt to bolster her claims. Now let’s talk about the notes themselves. We know about the discrepancy, 4 attackers instead of 2 attackers and Ford currently claims, and no mention of Kavanaugh. Yes, the husband disputes this, saying the therapist is mistaken, Ford said 2 attackers, and mentioned Kavanaugh. Ok...Well what is more likely? Ford, a PhD psychologist professor with her own practice, picked a really shitty therapist, who failed to do the most important part of their job, which is to listen to their patients (especially when they’re discussing a traumatic event) and make sure you get the story straight so you’re on the same page as the patient. Or maybe she was describing a different event from what she testified too, and the husband, like a majority of any other husband, is backing her up? Secondly, how on earth can we rely on what is hearsay (husbands dispute of therapists notes) 4 years after the fact, vs notes that were taken during the exact time in question by a trained professional? Bout as backwards as it gets I’d say. More importantly why only release selective areas from the therapists notes (arguably the best piece of evidence you have as flimsy as it is). Sure, you could say that nothing else is pertinent...but that’s asking everyone else to rely on your word, which is what is in question. We have zero clue of the context of the incidence in question in this session or any other therapy sessions (that probably happened, since this type of topic is not usually a one convo and done type of topic in therapy). It would be infinitely more convincing to get the notes from just this session to get better context. We don’t know if there are any other details that possibly contradict (even more so than the few provided) Fords testimony.
It is at the very least odd (extremely suspicious in my opinion) that the only two pieces of evidence that haven’t completely fallen apart...Ford and her legal team are very tight lipped on, and selectively offer only snippets without context. It’s also at the very least odd (and again suspicious) to place a non-sensical and extremely redundant condition on the release on the best and only evidence Ford had. It’s almost as if though Ford/legal team had a pretty good idea that the strange and redundant request wasn’t going to be met. Very strange indeed, considering Ford’s goal was to get the truth out there, and inform the legislature and entire nation about someone who was well on their way to be confirmed as a freaking Supreme Court judge.
To your last point. Was there something Ford failed to mention in the testimony? Yes it’s possible, but also extremely neglegent of her legal team to not get whatever other pertininant information out there. So if you can explain how they dropped the ball, and would try to pick it up, but kick out of reach right before continuously all the way off the edge of the Grand Canyon...I’m all ears.