Comments on: Libby Witness Grenier Has Reconstructed Memory

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:50:27 +0000

Prosecutor: Libby "Made Up A Story"... In his opening statement, the special prosecutor in the trial of former White House aide Lewis I. "S...

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:50:14 +0000

""When someone is unaware of the significance of their answers, they make no effort precisely recollect details they don’t know are relevant. When those details become relevant, people can go back and reexamine their memories….and come up with slightly different answers.""

Yeah, just what Fitz will argue at closing!!

Real World-Check:

1. Grenier is lying to stab Libby
or
2. Trying to sound more plausible because in reality they were all gossiping much about Wilson & Wife.

By: clarice

clarice — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:48:10 +0000

"Reconstructed" his "recollection" on press accounts-Now that is unique. And preposterous given the almost uniformly bad reporting on the case ,including of course the utterly disingenuous presser announcing the indictment. In sum, I didn't know closer in time to the event, but having read a lot of lies maybe I did.

By: paul lukasiak

paul lukasiak — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:13:10 +0000

This is useless for Fitzpatrick. Another witness with a less than perfect memory, who is admitting to having been influenced by newspaper stories in revising his story.

hardly.... one of the things that Fitz is doing here indirectly is reminding the jurors how they "reconstruction" memory --- and why Libby's "memory defense" makes no sense. When someone is unaware of the significance of their answers, they make no effort precisely recollect details they don't know are relevant. When those details become relevant, people can go back and reexamine their memories....and come up with slightly different answers. Fitz is going to use Well's attempts to impeach Grossman and Grenier in his final arguments -- appealling to the "common sense" of the jurors that while these kinds of small details can be forgotten, Libby's lies are "whole cloth"....

By: bain

bain — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:08:39 +0000

Agreed that Grenier is not that helpful wrt Libby knowing about Wilson's wife. I think all the prosecution is trying to establish is Libby's deep concern about Wilson. Sounds like they are moving along the timeline they set up in the opening ...

By: Patrick R. Sullivan

Patrick R. Sullivan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:50:37 +0000

This is useless for Fitzpatrick. Another witness with a less than perfect memory, who is admitting to having been influenced by newspaper stories in revising his story.

Wells will have a field day on cross.

By: The Hindsight Factor | We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident

The Hindsight Factor | We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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