Either He Lied on His Resumé or There's Been a Cover-Up

[Wind Dancer]

Alito's CAP

By DOUG GIEBEL

I once had a legal dispute with a university department chairman over whether or not he had torn down the handbills I had posted announcing a campus talk I was scheduled to give. The chairman claimed he could not recall whether he had ripped down the notices. In the 9th Circuit Court hearing, Judge Stephen Reinhardt told the chairman's attorney from the Montana Attorney General's office that it was puzzling that the chairman's memory was so faulty.

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The conventional theory is that Judge Alito later thought better of listing his membership in a controversial organization, and may have truly forgotten everything about his participation in the group. However, this memory lapse seems unusual not merely because Judge Alito once listed it in his credentials-- so he must have remembered it in the past. The real question is why a "brilliant" man who can recite chapter and verse from legal documents and history (as well as the other events from his life) -- why this mentally adept lawyer and jurist can't remember anything about joining the C.A.P.

Apologists for Alito imply he may also have been advised to disrecall his purported membership because the C.A.P. agenda is no longer politically correct.

As one with some experience at exposing frauds, let me propose that it is very possible Samuel Alito was never a member of C.A.P. Instead, he could easily have padded his credentials to impress potential employers, especially those from the Republican right. Unfortunately, no committee member raised this possibility, even though it would have been both appropriate and a way to elicit more specific responses from Judge Alito on the subject.

Judge Alito should be challenged on this issue. Did he lie on his resume? If so, did he lie to the Senate committee regarding his faulty memory? The lie? The cover-up? The lady or the tiger?

Doug Giebel is a Montana analyst and writer. He welcomes comment: [e-mail]

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[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Lady or the tiger?

Sounds to me more like the tiger or the tiger.

Choose either door, and he's screwed. Unless, of couse, everybody just ignores it, and he says nothing at all.