Libby has hired a memory-loss expert to assist him with his legal defense

[sabra]

http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/02/scooter_libbys_.html#below-fold

Scooter Libby's memory-loss expert
Posted by Jim Popkin, Senior Producer, NBC News Investigative

Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, has hired a renowned memory-loss expert to assist him with his legal defense. Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter tells NBC News he has been retained by Libby as a consultant. An official familiar with the Libby defense team confirms the news.

Schacter, who has been at Harvard since 1991 and who has a 29-page resume, is the author of "The Seven Sins of Memory" and "Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past." His books offer explanations for the "vulnerability of memory." Schacter writes that if we are distracted as an event unfolds, "we may later have great difficulty remembering the details of what happened." Time, of course, often weakens our memory. And, he writes, it is easy to "unwittingly create mistaken -- though strongly held -- beliefs about the past."

Libby's lawyers hinted in court filings last week that memory loss will be "central themes" of Libby's defense. Libby's lawyers write: "...any misstatements he made during his FBI interviews or grand jury testimony were not intentional, but rather the result of confusion, mistake or faulty memory."

Libby's lawyers say that, during Libby's hectic days handling sensitive national-security matters, "it is understandable that he may have forgotten or misremembered relatively less significant events. Such relatively less important events include alleged snippets of conversations about Valerie Plame Wilson's employment status."

:rofl:

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Someone can train you to "Lose memories"

Now we know what really happened to Reagan.

[unblock]

2. memory-loss expert's advice: forget ... forget ... forget ....

jeez, i think i could be a world-class memory-loss expert, i'm very good at forgetting.

why, i've forgotten most of the things i can't remember!

[pdxmom]

3. So he's saying that outing a CIA isn't an important matter? What

a slime.

[Richard Steele]

4. They say a drowning man will grasp at straws....

If he's reaching this far, it's because he knows he's TOAST.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. > > > > > > > > > If the memory fails then Scooter sails! < < < < < < < <

Paging Dr Frist! Paging Dr Frist! Videotape dx required on Scooter.:rofl:

[Lochloosa]

6. Let me get this straight. Your the top aide to the Vice President

of the United States and you can't remember outing an undercover CIA spy?

We are fucked!

[Webster Green]

7. Wait a minute!......This isn't from The Onion?

This trial is going to be fun!:popcorn:

[Ecumenist]

8. Oh please...

If his memory is that bad, he doesn't need to step outside without supervision. :eyes: These idiots must actually think we're that stupid...
Ordinary people would be laughed out of court while being lead in cuffs in contempt if they even mentioned trying this crap.

[MADem]

9. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and "I forgot!" didn't even work in

friken GRADE SCHOOL!!!

Where's your homework, Scooter?

Uh...I forgot.


Well, DETENTION for you then!!!


Where'd you hear about Valerie, Scooter?

Uh, from reporters!!!

That ain't true, Scooter, we KNOW better; we've got proof, in fact.

Well, I forgot....

[louis-t]

10. If he's that 'forgetful' how can he be a trusted, high ranking official?

I'm sorry, but this is way too funny. They even invented a new word for Scooter: "misremembered'.

[Solly Mack]

11. Why not? "I don't recall" works as a defense when it comes

to those in government.

Wouldn't work for me - but it works for government.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. He needs a morality-loss expert.

Oh, wait...he is one. My bad!

[joanski0]

13. This just effing takes the cake!

How about have a doc certify that Libby is insane instead?