As attorneys for Christine Ford Blasey demanded an FBI investigation over the last two weeks, the Wall Street Journal reports that her allies were pressuring one witness to change her story.
Ford named Leland Keyser as one of four potential witnesses to the Washington Post, but once her name became public, Keyser issued a statement through her attorneys that she cannot recall ever being at a party with Brett Kavanaugh.
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford's allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn't corroborate Dr. Ford's account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pressuring Keyser to change her statement might cross the line from lobbying to witness tampering, theoretically anyway, especially once the FBI got involved - in no small part due to demands from Ford's attorneys.
Ford and Kavanaugh lobbied friends from that period for support as character references, but what the WSJ describes from the texts involved sounds as though Keyser was being pressured to change testimony already given to the Senate under jeopardy of 18 USC 1001.
In the end, Keyser did add that she "Believed" Ford but still couldn't recall being at any party with Kavanaugh.
Ford suggested during her testimony that Keyser was withholding, saying that she understood why her health issues would make her unwilling to step forward.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/05/wsj-ford-ally-pressured-keyser-change-story/
Ford named Leland Keyser as one of four potential witnesses to the Washington Post, but once her name became public, Keyser issued a statement through her attorneys that she cannot recall ever being at a party with Brett Kavanaugh.
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford's allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn't corroborate Dr. Ford's account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pressuring Keyser to change her statement might cross the line from lobbying to witness tampering, theoretically anyway, especially once the FBI got involved - in no small part due to demands from Ford's attorneys.
Ford and Kavanaugh lobbied friends from that period for support as character references, but what the WSJ describes from the texts involved sounds as though Keyser was being pressured to change testimony already given to the Senate under jeopardy of 18 USC 1001.
In the end, Keyser did add that she "Believed" Ford but still couldn't recall being at any party with Kavanaugh.
Ford suggested during her testimony that Keyser was withholding, saying that she understood why her health issues would make her unwilling to step forward.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/05/wsj-ford-ally-pressured-keyser-change-story/
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