Amnesia can apparently strike at any time:

Though the Senate unanimously confirmed Mr. Kaplan, Mr. Lautenberg also grilled him about reports that he was on hand for the so-called Brooks Brothers protest in November 2000, when a large group of Bush supporters — many in business attire — stormed a room in Florida where supervisors were conducting a ballot recount

Asked by senators in 2003 whether he was part of the protest, Mr. Kaplan said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “My responsibilities and role was to go into the room and be an official observer,” Mr. Kaplan said. “So while I was there, I was not, to my recollection, a participant.”

That’s funny. Kaplan’s memory seemed to work fine back in 2002:

Kaplan described his role in a lecture at the Harvard University Institute of Politics, calling the demonstration the “Brooks Brothers Protest,” a reference to the way the demonstrators were dressed.

And on Friday, the Washington Post’s Al Kamen described Kaplan as “a key part of the legendary Brooks Brothers Riot that helped persuade Miami election officials to stop the recount.”