(06-23-2019 08:51 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  I agree that the fear of flying story was a little fishy. That is one reason I approached the testimony with an open mind. I do know people severely afraid of flying though and they will take flights when absolutely necessary but make every effort to avoid it. Perhaps it was a situation like this.

So the flying story caused you to become open-minded? That implies you were not open-minded before. And if you were not open-minded before, but the flying story caused you to become so, then it would be clear on what side your previously closed mind lay.

It was more than a little fishy. It was basically unethical, if not downright illegal. Quoting from Tanq, earlier in the thread:

Quote:Yep, the flying delay story was a crock of ****. They deliberately tried to shield any testimony from or outside interview of her by the authorities until the absolute last second. Kind of a real-world obstruction of justice scenario.
The fact that they moved her from Cali and housed her incommunicado for two weeks within hours of DC without bothering to tell any Senate investigatory personnel *or* the FBI kind of buttresses the 'ambush and nothing but ambush' scenario to a great extent. If I pulled that **** with a witness, even a pre-filing deposition, I'd get my ass sanctioned by the judge and probably face a raft of disciplinary actions by the state bar.

The whole flying story was simply so impossibly unbelievable that it destroyed her credibility. It made me believe that the whole thing was manipulated by her attorneys. And one angle that I don't think was ever explored is that when she gave the lie detector test, it was at a hotel near the airport, because she had flown in for a relative's funeral and was about to fly out again. I'm not an expert on lie detector tests, but I am aware that they can give false readings when the subject is in a state of emotional stress, and for someone afraid of flying to be coming from a relative's funeral in between two flights sounds like the kind of situation where a true baseline would be extremely difficult to establish.