Kavanaugh accuser comes forward

The seeming slam-dunk approval may be in some trouble...or it may not.... we'll see...Washington Post Link
California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault

Kavanaugh denies making unwanted sexual advances as an adult
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh denied committing sexual or physical harassment as an adult when asked by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Sept. 5. (JM Rieger /The Washington Post)

By Emma Brown
September 16 at 1:28 PM
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.

Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.

While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.

Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. The therapist’s notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by The Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh’s name but say she reported that she was attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” The notes say four boys were involved, a discrepancy Ford says was an error on the therapist’s part. Ford said there were four boys at the party but only two in the room.

Christine Ford is a professor at Palo Alto University who teaches in a consortium with Stanford University, training graduate students in clinical psychology. Her work has been widely published in academic journals.

For weeks, Ford declined to speak to The Post on the record as she grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family — and what she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story.

She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.

Judge is a filmmaker and author who has written for the Daily Caller, The Weekly Standard and The Washington Post. He chronicled his recovery from alcoholism in “Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk,” which described his own blackout drinking and a culture of partying among students at his high school, renamed in the book “Loyola Prep.” Kavanaugh is not mentioned in the book, but a passage about partying at the beach one summer makes glancing reference to a “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” who “puked in someone’s car the other night” and “passed out on his way back from a party.”

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30 years ago.

who cares.

Goes to character, something you might want to research.

Would you care if it happened to someone you knew?

Unlike people here (like El Chup) I do not personalize my beliefs.

Can you address the first sentence of my post?

Time seems not to matter when it comes to Bill and Hillary and Obama...

I wasn't aware that a persons character stayed the same from when they were teenagers to mature adults 30 years later.

First sentence addressed. Happy?

What crimes as teenagers were Bill, Hillary, or Obama accused of?

Jesus got nailed to a stick 2018 years ago.
Get over it, move on.

Unsurprised.

Rape, murder and falsifying citizenship?

Jesus is God in the flesh.

Pretty sure Judge Kavanaugh is a mere human.

And it was about 1985 years ago more or less.

I don't remember any of those three being accused of a rape occurring when they were teenagers.

No one seriously believed any of them committed a murder. Ever.

Trump's did.

You’re as bad a Christian as @Federal Farmer is a libertarian

Willing to completely ignore a sexual assault allegation because your guy is going to be in the SCOTUS

I personally don’t believe it but it should be investigated

Yet another example of how this atheist’s morals surpass your own

Why don’t you go tell your daughter that if she got sexually assaulted that the time would come where you wouldn’t care

I predict this thread will become yet another Dayton thread. Which sucks.

I predict that you have nothing constructive to say on the topic.

Come on. Be real.

No one’s going to sexually assault his daughter.

I doubt it will change anything.

And neither do you.

You don’t actually participate in debates. You snipe at other posters and that’s it.

You’re as guilty as El Chup at wrecking threads with Dayton3.

Looks like you're contribution is going to be zilch.

If it was a party and if they were as she said stumbling drunk was she drunk? Is it possible that she got him mixed up with someone else?

And what is there to investigate? There’s nothing but her statement and his statement.

You either believe one or the other or you believe that maybe Kavanaugh was so drunk he doesn’t even remember. We are after all talking about an incident that is alleged to have happened while he was a teenager drinking at a party.

Look again idiot.

And I participate in threads far more than you, El Chup, or Garamet because I basically ignore the idiot named Dayton3 and don’t talk to him. Except on the rare occasion when it’s worth responding to a post of his. Otherwise I just scroll right by him.

You guys literally will not stop responding to him. In every thread. You’re all as guilty as him at ruining threads and frankly the three of you should be banned from talking to him or be suspended for a week from the board when you do.

This is true. Every thread that I’ve been interested in is littered with page after page of Dayton, Chup, Dinner and garamet going at it. You have to scroll through so much muck to get to something of substance. And now this one is getting ruined.

I still wonder why Feinstein sat on it as long as she did, could it be because it’s more advantageous to bring it up closer to the election?

It could be. Therefore it’s false.

That's a possibility. Then again, she was told by a third party and not by the woman herself, who only agreed to come forward now.

Just like the okay symbol could be a white power sign, but it probably isn’t.

That’s a massive amount of processing power for someone who’s only completed 9th grade. Well done.

What do you expect when you have a group of assholes intent on mentioning my family.

Screwem.