FBI Still Has Not Contacted Blasey Ford, Her Attorneys Say

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The FBI had not interviewed Christine Blasey Ford, who Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while the two were in high school, as of Wednesday afternoon, Blasey Ford’s attorneys said in a letter.

The revelation came in a letter responding to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) Tuesday demand that Blasey Ford turn over new documents to the committee.

In his Tuesday letter Grassley cited a statement publicized by the Judiciary Committee from Blasey Ford’s ex-boyfriend, who claimed that Blasey Ford helped a friend prepare for a polygraph test. This prompted Grassley to request more information on the polygraph test Blasey Ford took recently, arguing that the ex-boyfriend’s statement called the polygraph into question.

Blasey Ford’s attorneys wrote Wednesday that they would be happy to turn the material over to the FBI.

Grassley quickly responded to Blasey Ford in a statement chastising her for declining to share the documents with the committee

“The Constitution tasks the Senate, not the media or the FBI, with providing advice and consent for Supreme Court nominees. It’s disappointing that Dr. Ford’s attorneys were willing to share evidence with The Washington Post many weeks ago but to this day refuse to share the same evidence, which Dr. Ford relied on in her testimony, with the Senate,” he said.

Read the letter:

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  1. But but but Grassley demands more evidence from Ford and her attorneys.

  2. I hope they’re not sitting by the phone waiting…

    Dotard put the kibosh on getting actual facts, interviewing relevant witnesses, or being fair…

  3. Sen. Grassley you keep on like this and Iowa may take a restraining order out against your return. You’re damaging “Iowa Nice,” so put a lid on it.

  4. Katz is saying, Hell no we won’t turn over those documents you demanded, because we know you will LEAK THEM. Ford will of course hand them over to the cops, provided they listen to her and take what she has to say in the full context of her story about Kavanaugh.

    Or at least that is what I get out of it.

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