Reply #26: The "memory" defense

[H2O Man]

is, in many ways, comic. While we all have had the experience of forgetting something, few of us would claim that we remember something that never happened .... especially in the context that Scooter claims.

It's not just that Irving Lewis Libby plum "forgot" all the conversations he had with Cheney etc about Valerie plame -- he claimed that he remembered Tim Russert telling him about her, and was "taken aback" .... as if it were the first time he ever heard this information.

Clearly, no one else can testify that Scooter honestly remembered (or "misremembered") his conversation with Russert. Team Libby can question Russert on cross-examination about the conversation, but they will only dig Libby in deeper by doing so.

Also, there is reportedly evidence that Rove said that Libby told him that Russert had mentioned Plame. It seems unlikely that will get much mileage if Libby does not testify.