Scooter Libby's Memory-Loss Expert (MSNBC)

[Starfury]

Shades of Reagan....

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."

http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/02/scooter_libbys_.html

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

1. Anyone with a 29-page resume

is a pompous asshole. Judge Walton told Team Libby that the trial was not going to hinge upon who had the better "memory expert."

[A Simple Game]

5. When I worked in IT we once hired a man with a very long

resume. He was impressive, but that was about it. Could talk the talk, but couldn't walk the walk. He didn't last very long.

Sounds like Libby's lawyers want to turn the trial into a circus and the Judge isn't going for it. Good for the Judge.

[H2O Man]

6. It's really funny

that we have a man who always took the "trust me, I'm smarter than everyone else" approach to life now saying, "excuse me, I'm not that smart after all" stance.

[A Simple Game]

9. Yes, and no matter what you think of Libby, you don't get to a

position like his by being stupid or having a bad memory. Sadly you may get to be his boss or his bosses boss, but you couldn't do his job.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Then we can bring in our statistic experts to find out what the likelihood

is that the information he forgot was 100% selectively the information that would have incriminated first Cheney, and then him.

[greekspeak]

3. This must be bogus...memory loss experts?

Sounds like the Onion.

[acmavm]

4. Oh geez, this can't be for real. Can it???? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

7. This sounds like a revision of the "false memory" defense used

by the perpetrators of the ritual abuse of children.
These are the same people in the shadow government that have committed crimes against humanity for decades hiding behind the national security blanket.

It's part of perception management.

[SpiralHawk]

8. "memory loss" How Republican

The perfect defense for the Republican culture of corruption