If they lie, you can’t trust them. That’s a fairly straightforward rule. It is certainly the one that trial lawyers bank on.
It is not a hard and fast rule. A person may shade the truth for
various reasons: vanity, personal allegiances, financial incentives,
etc. Usually, once you figure out the relevant motivation, you can sort
out on what matters he is probably credible and what he is prone to lie
about. Sometimes, though, the story is so unbelievable, so insulting to
the intelligence, that a rational juror knows it is best to discount all
of the testimony — or, worse, to conclude that the truth is likely the
opposite of the witness’s desperate version.
[...]
The Obama administration is the witness whose testimony a jury would discount out of hand.
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 4:51 AM
