Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Monica Goodling testimony very disappointing.

Testifying under court-approved immunity, 33-year-old Monica Goodling acknowledged that she had given too much consideration to whether candidates for jobs as career prosecutors were Republicans or Democrats.

“You crossed the line on civil service laws, is that right?” asked Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.

“I believe I crossed the line,” Goodling replied. “But I didn’t mean to.”

She said she had limited involvement in the firings and offered the panel’s Democrats nothing new in their probe of whether President Bush’s top political and legal aides chose which prosecutors to dismiss.

Goodling said she never talked to Karl Rove, Bush’s political adviser, nor Harriet Miers, then the president’s White House counsel, about the firings. She said Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, drew up the list of those to be dismissed but she didn’t know how names got on it.

There was, at least so far, no smoking gun. There was very little new information. She admitted to breaking the law by hiring people based on their political leanings but did not say if anybody asked her to do so.

But my question is this: If Monica Goodling did not make the list of US Attorneys to be fired, and Paul McNulty didn't, and Alberto Gonzales didn't, and apparently neither Karl Rove or Harriet Meir's did it either, then who the fuck did?

I mean how many other people could have decided who was to be fired? I am guessing nobody else.

Which means that somebody, or everybody, is lying. And Congress better get to the bottom of this and not let this administration dodge and lie their way out of yet another scandal. This is a very convoluted and bizarre situation and it needs to have the light of justice shined right in its damn eyes.

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