Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I thought that she initially had the memories of the officials, who'd gotten all the reports and seen all the images, presumably, but that then, when she was exposed to the people and scenes where the events had happened, her psychic abilities picked up some kind of residual impressions.

And the Reavers were in close enough proximity to her on the planet and on the ship (well, the one, before he got shot) that she might well have picked up some stuff then without fully being able to process it. Does that sound convincing?