A bold new legal strategy

Lawyers for Lewis "Scooter" Libby intend to use a "memory expert" to prove Libby is innocent of the charge he lied about his role in the outing of celebrity super-spy Valerie Plame.

When I first read this I was pleased. I have also been cursed with a sieve-like memory and would be in big trouble if I was ever hauled in front of multiple grand juries and made to repeat the same complicated story over and over.

If Libby's memory expert could establish a legal precedent concerning the limitations some otherwise flawless and non-traumatized human brains have in recalling past events not only would my own likelihood of ever being convicted of perjury diminish, but I imagine I would be able paraphrase this ruling with a new sense of authority in my personal dealings.

Unfortunately, when I read the article more carefully, I realized Libby's "memory expert" wasn't only going to argue against Libby's memory. Instead, Libby's defense intends on proving everyone involved in the case has a bad memory.

In other words, Scooter Libby has decided to pursue a line of defense that, if successful, would render most of our legal system impotent.

If not our entire social order useless.

The man is incorrigible.