Friend Rejects Claim That Blasey Ford Coached Her On Taking Polygraph Test

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27:  Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washi... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. MORE LESS
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Monica McLean has denied professor Christine Blasey Ford’s ex-boyfriend’s claim that she was coached by Blasey Ford, her friend, before she took a polygraph test years ago.

The ex-boyfriend’s claim (he has chosen to remain anonymous) was cited in Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) Tuesday letter demanding more evidence from Blasey Ford’s lawyers.

“I have never had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at anytime,” McLean said in a statement, according to the Wall Street Journal.

During her testimony before the committee, Blasey Ford said that she had never given anyone “tips” or “advice” on how to take a polygraph test.

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  1. Describing how the machine works and what is involved is not “tips” or “advice”.

  2. Off topic: “I have never had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at anytime,”

    Does this woman work for the CIA or NSA that she takes repeated polygraph tests?

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    So that piece of grassley bullsh*t didn’t last very long. When does the next one arrive?

  4. Just put everyone involved in this farce on a polygraph and go from there.

    And by that I mean polygraph all the Judiciary Committee members as well.

    Truth will tell…

  5. Let’s call this what it is: throw up talking points and smoke because you know vast majority of voters are now happy to be willfully ignorant. They just need to know the script for the day.

    It’s all so easy when it’s all come down to which team you want to belong to.

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