Aide testifies that Gonzales discussed firings of U.S. attorneys

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told lawmakers Wednesday that Gonzales had sought to go over with her his recollections about the firings of U.S. attorneys after a congressional investigation was under way.

Monica Goodling, the Justice Department's former senior counsel and liaison to the White House, told the House Judiciary Committee that the one-on-one conversation in Gonzales' office in mid-March made her "uncomfortable" and that she thought it might be inappropriate for them to compare notes when both might be asked to testify.

Goodling answered "no" when Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., asked her directly, "Do you think the attorney general was trying to shape your recollection?" She said, "I just did not know if it was a conversation that we should be having."

Lawmakers said her disclosure was important nonetheless because it seemed to contradict Gonzales' testimony to Congress under oath that he couldn't answer some details about the firings because he'd had to avoid discussing certain details with his staff in order to avoid any perception that he was compromising congressional and two internal departmental investigations.

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Let's see, uhmmm, obstruction of justice, collusion, conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying to Congress again and again and again and again. In the Old and Irrelevant America, they all would be shown the door.

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1. Perjury, Obstruction, Witness Tampering, Collusion?

I agree, but this is "He said, She said" stuff, which never goes anywhere. Remember Clarence Thomas & Anita Hill? Not much happened there either! We need more, or corroborating evidence to support her claims - We need another witness to this act.

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2. K&R