The Plame Page

MSNBC reports that Scooter Libby has hired a leading expert on memory, Harvard professor Daniel Schacter, to help with his "I forgot" defense.:

Libby's lawyers hinted in court filings last week that memory loss will be [one of the?] "central themes" of Libby's defense. Libby's lawyers write: "...any misstatements he made during his FBI interviews or grand jury testimony were not intentional, but rather the result of confusion, mistake or faulty memory."

Libby's lawyers say that, during Libby's hectic days handling sensitive national-security matters, "it is understandable that he may have forgotten or misremembered relatively less significant events. Such relatively less important events include alleged snippets of conversations about Valerie Plame Wilson's employment status."