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February 14, 2006
Scooter's notes
From CNN:
Prosecutors have asked former vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to help them decipher his handwritten notes for use in an ongoing investigation stemming from the leak of a CIA agent's identity.
Sure, I'm glad to help. I guess I do have pretty lousy handwriting, huh? Should have been a doctor! Ha ha ha. That was a joke, fellas. See, doctors have bad handwriting … nevermind.
Okay, so an important thing to remember is that my "F's" look like "P's" -- always have. Kind of a quirk. For instance, if I were to write the word "Fast" it would look like "Past." See what I mean? Or, to give you a second example, if I were to write the word "Flame" it might look like "Plame" to the untrained eye. That's one thing to keep in mind. Also, I tend to leave out words when I’m taking notes in order to save time. So, if I want to remember to pick up my dry cleaning, I wouldn’t write "Remember to pick up suit from the dry cleaner's." Instead, I would just scribble "Remember dry cleaning." Much easier, don’t you think?
I admit, however, that my little system can be confusing at times. In certain cases, the meaning might even be the opposite of what I actually wrote down. This note here that you point to -- the one that says "Cheney orders me to leak Plame identity to discredit her husband who is accusing the administration of using bogus evidence in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, which was a tragic boondoggle from the very beginning" -- see, I left out the word "not" after "orders me." I must have been in a hurry …
Posted by teb at February 14, 2006 10:39 AM