Libby has a 'condition', yeah, that's the ticket

I am not making this up.

Scooter Libby has hired a memory expert to prove he did not lie to prosecutors about what happened with the outing of an undercover CIA agent. He just misremembered. If you look up the word 'misremembered' (if that even is a word) in a thesaurus I'm pretty sure you'd find it is linked to the word 'lie'.

Talking Points Memo has this story from MSNBC outlining how Mr. Libby just misremembered an entire other story.

Libby's lawyers hinted in court filings last week that memory loss will be "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."

Wouldn't just saying "I don't remember" have been fine if he didn't remember? But he made up a story to cover up what he actually had done.

You don't get to be Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States by being so bad with your memory that you can have experts testify you have some sort of 'condition' that prevents you from remembering well. Confusion so bad that you make up other stories? How did this guy find his desk every day?

Is Libby going to have witnesses testify that he is on par with the Saturday Night Live skit with the pathological liar and they heard him saying things like "Yeah, that's the ticket" all the time?

Do they really think the American public is this dumb?