said that he has good memory, i think s actually said one of the best memories. so papaige, memory failure, wha does this mean for the investigation? well, it s not uncommon for either target a suspect or somebody even involved as a witness in a criminal investigation to not remember something that happened in the past. where you run into trouble is if that memory is something that you ve suppressed or you know what happened in the past but you are intentionally misleading investigators. what you say to the press, that won t be subject to prosecution. you can make misstatements, you can falsify thing, you can say i don t remember. but once you start these interviews with either the agents who are working the special council s office or anyone on capitol hill, if you make a false statement there, you can be prosecuted. and we ve seen that already happen this week. so i know that the special council will test the memory of these individuals, they are not going to believe folks who say
correctly. if you tell your doctor you are memory failure or somebody you love is behaving peculiarly and you think they have alzheimer s the doctor will make a clinical decision, there are many reasons for not remember things or personality changes maybe due to medication and anxiety and depression and maybe due to brain tumor or maybe due to a stroke or maybe due to other neurological illnesses. the doctor has to make a judgment as to what these symptoms are due to. there is no test. if you suspect pneumonia, you take a chest x ray and the pneumonia is there. you suspect something else, and you do another test. there is no such test for alzheimer s. the only way to diagnose alzheimer ss is after death when we examine the brain of the patient and we find the protein in the brain which was