Ford friend has said she was pressured to revisit Kavanaugh statement: report

Source: The Hill | October 5, 2018 | Tal Axelrod

Leland Keyser, a friend of Christine Blasey Ford, told FBI investigators she was pressured by Ford’s allies to reconsider her initial statement that she was unaware of evidence supporting Ford’s claims of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal

Keyser eventually revised her statement, saying she could not corroborate Ford’s claims, but believed the assault had happened. 

She told the FBI that following her initial statement, Monica McLean, a retired FBI agent and friend of Ford’s, reached out and urged Keyser to clarify what she had said, according to the Journal. 

“Any notion or claim that Ms. McLean pressured Leland Keyser to alter Ms. Keyser’s account of what she recalled concerning the alleged incident between Dr. Ford and Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely false,” David Laufman, McLean’s lawyer, said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal. 

Keyser’s amended comments came after Kavanaugh cited her initial statement in a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. 

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