lol, you just did it, nice pivot
How did I do it? This makes no sense. What I said is almost certainly true, if you went into something like this with no preparation it would be a massacre.
That is such BS. There is only one version of the truth based on observable or verifiable fact. If you cannot verify something, you answer truthfully that you cannot recall.
Now THIS is BS. Empirical research clearly shows that people's memories are highly imperfect and even things they truthfully believe happened did not. I have no doubt that large quantities of things you believe you observed never happened, or at least didn't happen as you remember them. A skilled attorney will find one of those strings and pull on it until you unravel entirely.
Winning. Not justice or truth. Winning.
Yep, and that's our system. Witness preparation is done because it's absolutely necessary. Plenty of people think just like you, that if they tell the truth they will do just fine. Many, many people have learned extremely costly lessons about how that's not true.
Situations often emerge in the military where there is a failure of leadership (training fatality, DUI, brawl at the local bar), and enlisted soldiers are asked to help the senior officer or commander sort through a lot of data. Discrediting is absolutely in play, and there are no lawyers to coach how you should answer direct questions from a superior officer.
I don't think you understand what I mean by discrediting. Everyone there is still ostensibly working together to find the truth. In our system one side is often affirmatively working to obscure the truth.
How do you know who is telling the truth? Were you there?
It doesn't matter - no matter which side is telling the truth (likely both sides are telling the truth to a certain degree) they will be subject to aggressive attempts to discredit them. You can bet your ass Kavanaugh has been preparing like a madman for his testimony regardless of whether he's telling the truth or not. Let's say Kavanaugh is telling the truth, are you saying someone with his legal experience is foolish and should be following your advice?
Don’t need to because you’ve thrown down an irrelevant gauntlet
Can you explain why the professional opinion of experts in the field with actual experience in the issue is not relevant here? Wouldn't that be among the most relevant things?