The "Carl Rove" Defense for all future Investigations

The main benefit that will derive from the conviction of Carl Rove is that all future people when being investigated and are asked about what happened when will always state " I cannot remember."

Mr Rove was convicted due to his inability to remember what happened on a certain day three years prior to being questioned. Thus he stated one day, someone else came up with a written record stating it was another day, and thus the perjury conviction was "valid" since he was off by a day from what he remembered and told them versus what someone else wrote down as to when it happened.

If someone came up and asked YOU what your were doing three years ago on day X could you remember it? Like any job one day seems like the next and if you stated yes you did, and someone then came up with a record that it was the wrong day YOU would be guilty of perjury - knowingly lying about the date since the date you gave was wrong and someone else showed it to be wrong thus YOU purposely stated it wrong (according to how the laws are written).

Thus, when someone comes before Congress, before any questioning person, it is best always to state "I cannot remember" even if you do since if you are wrong just ONE time you will be convicted of perjury, lying to an investigator, obstructing justice - for a single memory failure.

A prosecutor can - and does - pick laws to charge people with based solely on the chance of convicting people - does not matter if it is appropriate or note - since he is RATED on his ability to gain convictions - not justice. Justice has no bearing in a court of law - it is the ability to convict people of any crime on the books which is important to any prosecuting attorney.