Do not confuse any kind of talent for storytelling or spinning one on the fly, or attempting to keep track of 20,000 lies in that twisted head of hers with HIGH IQ. Remember she CHOSE to go with this story instead of simply saying I don't know. It would be better for her to say I don't know leaving everyone else to make it fit but that's her last option. She thinks she is the smartest one in the room. With all the wordplay and semantics, if it has the hint of possibility - this becomes her truth. She believes in her mind she has not told one lie on the stand. If this changes she will spin another story to explain why she lied before. I've dealt with a person just like her and the amount of unneeded detail is second nature. What your seeing here is the public side of a psych. In a one-on-one situation (JA + TA), there will be lie upon lie and if questioned further it turns to walking away or verbal attack, accusations, screaming and hollering and so on. A psych can never be wrong.