Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of Ford’s polygraph test regarding her allegation.
First mentioned in the Washington Post report published earlier this month, the polygraph was taken by a former FBI agent in August at the recommendation of her lawyer Debra Katz.
Taking place in Maryland, the document reveals Ford was asked to respond to a general summary of her allegation against Kavanaugh, shown written by hand.
The first was: “Is any part of your statement false?”; the second was: “Did you make up any part of your statement?”
Both times, Ford’s answer was “no.”
Three analyses were conducted based on four polygraph charts. All three generally found Ford was not being deceptive. The first found Ford’s responses to the question “not indicative of deception.” The other two analyses found no significant reactions, determining a very low probability of deception.
The results were shared in a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Ford’s legal team, saying her medical records will not be shared with the panel, citing concerns about “private, highly sensitive” information.
Kavanaugh and Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, where she will be questioned by the Democratic and Republican senators on the panel, as well as by outside counsel and Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell.
Ford, a 51-year-old professor living in northern California, claims Kavanaugh drunkenly groped her at a high school gathering 36 years ago. Kavanaugh denies the allegations.
Polygraph tests are not conclusive and are not admissible in court, and experts say their results can depend on the questions asked, the way they are asked, and how the answers are interpreted by the person administering them.
To help substantiate her allegation, Ford submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee sworn declarations from four people supporting her, including her husband.
Kavanaugh also faces allegations from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a college party, put his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away during a party while they were both undergrad students at Yale University.
Julie Swetnick, who graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Maryland and has several active government clearances, came forward Wednesday to claim she saw Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge drink “excessively” and “engage in highly inappropriate conduct” while attending house parties in the Washington, D.C., area in the early 1980s.
Swetnick, a federal official, said the behavior included “being overly aggressive with girls and not taking ‘no’ for an answer.” She also accused Kavanaugh and Judge of being present when she was gang-raped around 1982, and wrote in her affidavit she told at least two other unnamed people of the incident. Swetnick says she was gang raped at one of these parties and Kavanaugh was present, according to the affidavit which was made public Wednesday morning by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Kavanaugh denies the allegations.
