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madville

(7,397 posts)
Sat Sep 22, 2018, 11:53 PM Sep 2018

Committee contacts Ford's female friend about party; 'she has no recollection' of it, lawyer says

CNN has learned that the committee has reached out to a longtime friend of Ford named Leland Ingham Keyser.

"I understand that you have been identified as an individual who was in attendance at a party that occurred circa 1982 described in a recent Washington Post article," a committee staffer wrote Keyser earlier this week.

On Saturday night, her lawyer, Howard Walsh, released a statement to CNN and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"Simply put," Walsh said, "Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/kavanaugh-ford-accuser-nomination/index.html
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That is now 4 people, 3 male and 1 female, that Dr. Ford has identified as being at the party that all claim they have no knowledge of it. Ms. Keyser here evens says she has never met Kavanaugh so how does that possibly impact Dr. Ford's claim that she was also in attendance at the party? Doesn't that leave only one other possible male that has yet to be identified?

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Committee contacts Ford's female friend about party; 'she has no recollection' of it, lawyer says (Original Post) madville Sep 2018 OP
Wa/Po reports friend believes Blasey Ford though! jezebel321 Sep 2018 #1
I wish someone would post this Wa/Po article. I dont have enough posts to start a new thread. nt jezebel321 Sep 2018 #2
I'll try but I think I used up my free ones for the month. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #4
Josh Marshall comment ramblin_dave Sep 2018 #3

jezebel321

(278 posts)
1. Wa/Po reports friend believes Blasey Ford though!
Sat Sep 22, 2018, 11:55 PM
Sep 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawyers-for-christine-blasey-ford-say-she-has-accepted-senate-judiciary-committees-request-to-testify-against-kavanaugh/2018/09/22/e8199c6a-be8f-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.a6d880ca4c4c

"As negotiations continued, Leland Keyser, a woman Ford told The Washington Post was present at the party where she alleges Kavanaugh assaulted her, came forward to say she had “no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present,” according to an email her lawyer sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, obtained by The Post. In a brief interview at her home in Silver Spring, Keyser said she was close friends with Ford and that she believes Ford’s allegation.

Before her name became public, Ford told The Post she did not think Keyser would remember the party because nothing remarkable had happened there, as far as Keyser was aware. Ford has said she did not tell anyone about the alleged assault until 2012.

“It’s not surprising that Ms Keyser has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it,” Katz said in a statement. “It’s also unremarkable that Ms. Keyser does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago at which nothing of consequence happened to her. Dr. Ford of course will never forget this gathering because of what happened to her there.”
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