Ashcroft: Sometimes I Confuse What People Tell Me With Reality

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Ashcroft: Sometimes I Confuse What People Tell Me With Reality
By Kate Klonick - July 17, 2008, 11:32AM

If this doesn't set the tone for former Attorney General John Ashcroft's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on interrogation methods at Guantanamo, I don't know what does.

In his opening statement, Ashcroft admitted that he had "limited recollection" of the events pertinent to the committee's inquiry. Specifically, "it's been difficult . . . to distinguish between what I in fact recall as a matter of my own experience, and what I remember from the accounts of others." ...http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/ashcroft_sometimes_i_confuse_w.php

[spanone]

1. these clowns have had selected amnesia for 7 years....lying liars.

[Sequoia]

2. Or Alzheimers most likely.

[Taverner]

3. "It was like a dream! It was like me watching myself pull the trigger, and someone else was me!"

[TomInTib]

4. Just what we needed as AG

A wacko with a Swiss-Cheese memory.

[zbdent]

5. "I get confused between what happened and what I've been told to say

happened ..."