And, to cap off her innocence, to portray what a tender, virginal, fresh, poor little thing she really is, she maintains she did not even know how to contact her senator, or in other words, type in her name on a google search.
She has a PhD.
I think she was in the mode of denying knowledge of anything in case it was somehow a trap. And when she denied knowledge of things like therapy and lie detector tests, it raised red flags.
Clear eyed glint of a masterful con artist or intel field officer.