Kool-Aid Bad For Memory – Moon of Alabama

March 29, 2007

Kool-Aid Bad For Memory

Smoking grass is not really good for one’s memory. Alcohol is even worse. Still, nothing beats the kool-aid.

I have no recollection …, I don’t remember …, I’m not aware …, to the best of my recollection …, never my understanding …, in hindsight, that wasn’t a good idea …, only generally aware …, no specific knowledge …, I don’t know …, I believe I …, I believe that I believe …, I have no reason to doubt that …, at the best of my memory …, at some point somone may …, as best as I can remember …, can you say that again …, my role was to aggregate and present, but I forgot what information was provided to me by whom and when and I kept no file of any of that …,

On can feel the sword of ~~damocles~~ perjury dangling over their heads.

Posted by b on March 29, 2007 at 21:49 UTC | Permalink

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Hey! It worked for Ronald Raygun.

Posted by: beq | Mar 29 2007 23:41 utc | 1

Nevertheless, they extracted the key info – Gonzo was at each meeting where it was decided to fire someone. Smell the fresh ink on the his letter of resignation. Even WH no longer defending him. Hell, there’s plenty more where he comes from. The person they have to get is Rove – for starters.

Posted by: jj | Mar 30 2007 5:20 utc | 2

Milbank on yesterdays Sampson hearing: Taking One for the Team, When He Could Remember

Only the red felt on the witness table concealed the blood. “I could have and should have helped to prevent this,” Sampson offered. “I let the attorney general and the department down. . . . I failed to organize a more effective response. . . . It was a failure on my part. . . . I will hold myself responsible. . . . I wish we could do it all over again.”
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Walking down the center aisle with no fewer than six lawyers, some carrying heavy briefcases, the witness made a grand entrance. His hair was trim and gelled, his frameless octagonal glasses polished clean. Described in news accounts as a young version of Rove, Sampson was indeed a bit pudgy and jowly, and he spoke in a nerdy voice that sounded strange coming from a man whose combative e-mails had been released by the Justice Department in recent weeks.
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“I can’t pretend to know or remember every fact that may be of relevance,” he warned at the start — and he wasn’t kidding. He used the phrase “I don’t remember” a memorable 122 times.
It may have been a tactical effort to limit his risk of perjury, but Sampson displayed the recall of a man who recently fell off a ladder.

BTW: Who pays for his six lawyers??!

Posted by: b | Mar 30 2007 7:44 utc | 3

lol, i tried to listen for awhile today on c span..
“We’re trying to find what in heaven’s name he does remember,” the chairman said.
122 times is going to seem like pocket change by the end of this fiasco. something tells me the entire staff at the justice department has shoddy memories.

Posted by: annie | Mar 30 2007 10:16 utc | 4

How in the world can George Bush and his minions appoint anyone — anyone — to replace Alberto Gonzales? Who in hell will take the job? Who can pass the confirmation hearings at this point?
Their choice is between a loyal stooge who will Not Investigate Anything, and some sort of honest person who will.
Or is their choice someone who will simultaneously put on a show of honesty before the Senate with a private deal to investigate nothing substantial.
Bush really does have a problem — the Attorney General of the United States is a powerful position. A position that can make or break a Presidency in short order.
Does Karen Hughes have a law degree? Can she get one? Real quick like?

Posted by: Antifa | Mar 30 2007 15:25 utc | 5

WH instructions; “Nobody talks; everybody walks.” If everybody says, “I don’t remember” or “I plead the fif… da fif!” it isn’t possible to investigate. Brilliant!

Posted by: soupper | Mar 30 2007 16:26 utc | 6

Antifa, ever heard of the Federalist Society?

Posted by: jj | Mar 30 2007 17:49 utc | 7

This loss of memory spiel is symptomatic of the disconnect of justice.
Showing up in court with a no-past and a blank-slate mind should be cause for sending people straight to the bin for ‘incapacity to testify’ or ‘pathological cognition.’
Tough call though.
One judge here became so irritated with a man accused of manslaughter who claimed both complete memory loss and voices in the head, he interrupted the court case – bang bang the gavel went – and ordered the man to the hospital to have a brain scan. The psychiatrists in the court room were outraged, some booed.
Off the accused went and back he came, with a harassed nurse who could only tender the papers showing a normal brain, and presenting a bill to the judge.
Modernity!
Interesting case though, as it was the ‘loss of memory’ that led to indefinite psychiatric internment (and that is no joke here, a very bad scene, though the food is excellent.) The accused would have been much better off to claim inebriation, drug addiction, or bad meds from the…doctors!
What about that, then? No memory = indefinite psych time and no job ever again.

Posted by: Noirette | Mar 30 2007 19:57 utc | 8

Please post your proof that smoking grass is bad for your . . . what’s it bad for again?

Posted by: erectorset | Mar 30 2007 20:58 utc | 9

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