Dick Cheney conveniently forgot?

[WillieW]

22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

— By Nick Baumann | Fri October 30, 2009 2:06 PM PST
—Photo by flickr user worldeconomicforum used under a CC license.
Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn't remember much of anything. Here's a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn't recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI's notes:

■Whether the Wilson trip was discussed during any of the visits he made to the CIA with his Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.
■Any reaction he had to Nicholas Kristof's New York Times' article about the Wilson visit at the time the article was published.
■Whether he discussed the Wilson situation with George Tenet at their meeting on June 10, 2003.
■Who he spoke to about Joe Wilson's July 6, 2003 editorial (he did remember speaking to someone, but not who it was).
■What happened to the Joe Wilson op-ed after he wrote on it suggesting that Valerie Plame Wilson had sent Joe Wilson on a "junket," and put it in his outbox.
■Any specific advice he gave his press people in the May-June 2003 timeframe regarding the Wilson trip to Niger

continued here

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/22-things-dick-cheney-cant-remember-about-plame-case

[Kutjara]

1. He's got a virulent form of incipient Reaganitis.

Before Ronald Reagan really came down with Alzheimer's disease, he suffered from a previously undocumented form of memory loss that has subsequently been named "Reaganitis." It involves the loss of only those memories, the public expression of which would make the sufferer resemble a bloodsoaked psychopath. All other memories are perfectly intact. Research has produced few promising leads as to the cause of the disease, but it is believed to be preceded by a morbid and overwhelming fear of going to jail, leading some to believe the two conditions are related.

[annabanana]

2. Apparently being confronted with HIS OWN HANDWRITING didn't

even jog his memory...

The worst case of CRS in the (badly infected) administration.

[spanone]

3. i doubt he was under oath...he's a pathological liar

[gratuitous]

4. That's why criminal proceedings are called for

Let him exercise his right to remain silent all he wants, then.