TIL: why Contemporaneous Notes

The Mueller Report shows that at least a couple of lawyers whose job was to deal with лживое хуйло as their boss wrote contemporaneous notes about his instructions. Why? I thought that the notes might help in a "he said – s/he said" conflict situation. Not exactly. It turns out that in conflicting accounts about an old conversation, contemporaneous notes have precedence when the other party is afraid to lie outright and claims not to remember the conversation. Therefore, it's not "he said – s/he said", but rather "I wrote down to remember and you don't have a clue."

As we know, лживое хуйло in his written answers claimed not to remember anything about matters relevant to the investigation. In the Mueller Report, McGahn's contemporaneous notes are cited to establish facts, esp. wrt obstruction of justice.

Quote of the Day: need for exercise

“...it is evident that the understanding is capable of being instructed by rules, but that the judgement is a peculiar talent, which does not, and cannot require tuition, but only exercise. This faculty is therefore the specific quality of the so-called mother wit, the want of which no scholastic discipline can compensate.

For although education may furnish, and, as it were, engraft upon a limited understanding rules borrowed from other minds, yet the power of employing these rules correctly must belong to the pupil himself; and no rule which we can prescribe to him with this purpose is, in the absence or deficiency of this gift of nature, secure from misuse.”

“A physician therefore, a judge or a statesman, may have in his head many admirable pathological, juridical, or political rules, in a degree that may enable him to be a profound teacher in his particular science, and yet in the application of these rules he may very possibly blunder — either because he is wanting in natural judgement (though not in understanding) and, whilst he can comprehend the general in abstracto, cannot distinguish whether a particular case in concreto ought to rank under the former; or because his faculty of judgement has not been sufficiently exercised by examples and real practice. Indeed, the grand and only use of examples, is to sharpen the judgement. ”

Immanuel Kant. “The Critique of Pure Reason.” 2nd ed.