Christine Blasey Ford: "Absolutely Not” A Case Of Mistaken Identity

Christine Blasey Ford defended her recollection of being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Diane Feinstein asked Dr. Ford how she was sure that it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her while they were in high school. 

Dr. Ford used her background in psychology to answer the question, explaining why her memories of the traumatic event are accurate after all these years. 

"The same way I'm sure I'm talking to you right now. Basic memory functions. And also just the level of norepinephrine and epinephrine in the brain that sort of, as you know, encodes that neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus so the trauma related experience is locked there where as other details kind of drift.

Feinstein then asked Ford if it could have been "a case of mistaken identity?"

"Absolutely not," Ford answered.

Later in the hearing, Senator Patrick Leahy asked what her strongest memory of the incident was.

Dr. Ford told him that it was "the uproarious laughter between the two, and they're having fun at my expense."

Leahy: "You never have forgotten that laughter? You never have forgotten them laughing at you?"

Ford: "They were laughing with each other."

Leahy: "And you were the object of the laughter?"

Ford: "I was, you know, underneath one of them while the two laughed, two friends having a really good time with one another."

Photo: Getty Images