Analysis of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
Memorandum
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
RE:
All Republican Senators
Rachel Mitchell, Nominations Investigative Counsel
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
September 30, 2018
Analysis of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
Please permit me this opportunity to present my independent assessment of Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Before I do this, I want to emphasize two
important points:
1. This memorandum contains my own independent assessment of Dr. Ford’s allegations,
based upon my independent review of the evidence and my nearly 25 years of experience
as a career prosecutor of sex-related and other crimes in Arizona. This memorandum does
not necessarily reflect the views of the Chairman, any committee member, or any other
senator. No senator reviewed or approved this memorandum before its release, and I was
not pressured in any way to write this memorandum or to write any words in this
memorandum with which I do not fully agree. The words written in this memorandum are
mine, and I fully stand by all of them. While I am a registered Republican, I am not a
political or partisan person.
2. A Senate confirmation hearing is not a trial, especially not a prosecution. The Chairman
made the following statement on September 25, 2018, after he hired me:
As I have said, I’m committed to providing a forum to both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh
on Thursday that is safe, comfortable and dignified. The majority members have followed
the bipartisan recommendation to hire as staff counsel for the committee an experienced
career sex-crimes prosecutor to question the witnesses at Thursday’s hearing. The goal is
to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving
senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.
I’m very appreciative that Rachel Mitchell has stepped forward to serve in this important and serious role. Ms.
Mitchell has been recognized in the legal community for her experience and objectivity.
I’ve worked to give Dr. Ford an opportunity to share serious allegations with committee
members in any format she’d like after learning of the allegations. I promised Dr. Ford
that I would do everything in my power to avoid a repeat of the ‘circus’ atmosphere in the
hearing room that we saw the week of September 4. I’ve taken this additional step to have
questions asked by expert staff counsel to establish the most fair and respectful treatment
of the witnesses possible.
That is how I approached my job. There is no clear standard of proof for allegations made
during the Senate’s confirmation process. But the world in which I work is the legal
world, not the political world. Thus, I can only provide my assessment of Dr. Ford’s
allegations in that legal context.
In the
five-page memo,
obtained by The Washington Post, Rachel Mitchell outlines more than
half a dozen reasons why she thinks the testimony of Christine Blasey
Ford — who has accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a house in
suburban Maryland when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — has some
key inconsistencies.
“A ‘he said, she said’
case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than
that,” Mitchell writes in the memo, sent Sunday night to all Senate
Republicans. “Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and
those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate
them.”
Mitchell continued: “For the reasons discussed below, I do not think
that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence
before the [Senate Judiciary] Committee. Nor do I believe that this
evidence is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance-of-the-evidence
standard.”
In the memo, Mitchell argued that Ford has not offered a consistent
account of the alleged assault, including when exactly it occurred.
Mitchell also noted that Ford did not identify Kavanaugh by name as her
attacker in key pieces of evidence, including notes from sessions with
her therapist — records that Ford’s lawyers declined to provide to the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ford testified before the panel Thursday that she is “100 percent” sure Kavanaugh was her attacker. “I
believed he was going to rape me,” she told the panel. “I tried to yell
for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from
yelling. This is what terrified me the most.”
But
in the memo, Mitchell also argued that Ford “has no memory of key
details of the night in question — details that could help corroborate
her account,” nor has Ford given a consistent account of the alleged
assault. Noting that Ford did not remember in what house the incident
allegedly occurred, or how she left the gathering and got back home,
Mitchell said “her inability to remember this detail raises significant
questions.”
Mitchell also stressed that nobody
who Ford has identified as having attended the gathering — including
Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth and Leland (Ingham) Keyser — has been able to
directly corroborate Ford’s allegations. Keyser, however, has told the
Judiciary Committee that she believes Ford’s account.
Mitchell,
whom GOP senators selected to handle the questioning in last week’s
hearing with Ford and Kavanaugh, is a registered Republican who is chief
of the special victims division of the Maricopa County attorney’s
office in Phoenix. Although she asked Ford all of the questions posed by
Republican senators, she asked Kavanaugh only two rounds of questions
until GOP senators began speaking again.
Mitchell
stressed that she was “not pressured in any way to write this
memorandum or to write any words in this memorandum with which I do not
fully agree.” The memo obtained by The Post does not include any
analysis of her questions to Kavanaugh.
“There
is no clear standard of proof for allegations made during the Senate’s
confirmation process,” Mitchell wrote in the memo. “But the world in
which I work is the legal world, not the political world. Thus, I can
only provide my assessment of Dr. Ford’s allegations in that legal
context.”
The prosecutor joined a private
meeting with all Senate Republicans on Thursday after the hearing, where
she told the senators that after the eight hours of testimony she
heard, she would not have prosecuted Kavanaugh for assault, according to
two officials familiar with her remarks.
The
committee is also sending to all Senate Republicans a detailed timeline
of key events regarding Ford’s accusation, including when she first
approached her congresswoman, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), with her
allegations and the committee’s investigative work.
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Editor Note:
Read the five page memo and see the Christine Blasey
Ford key inconsistencies.
Thats another way to say Christine Blasey Ford LIED under oath to the senate!
Rachel Mitchell has shown Christine Blasey Ford's account of what happened to
her to be inconsistent and false.
Christine Blasey Ford's Self Hypnosis
