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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Write this down: Your notes aren't as reliable as you think. That's true whether they're scrawled in the margins of a business meeting agenda, typed on a secretary's laptop, scribbled on a patient's chart or carefully recorded from a lecture hall blackboard.
And, as the monthlong trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has shown, they're no more reliable if the notes belong to FBI agents, journalists or White House aides.
That's a somewhat disconcerting thought. People are charged, front-page articles are written and public policies are decided in part based on those notes. If they are flawed, whose can be believed?
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