Monica Goodling kneecaps a truth-telling FBI agent-Agent Dzwilewski's Exit Interview

[kpete]

Agent Dzwilewski's Exit Interview
Monica Goodling kneecaps a truth-telling FBI agent.
Bonnie Goldstein
June 6, 2007, 12:28 PM ET


Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at 12:28 PM ET Like many cabinet agencies, the Justice department has a press office that circulates a daily internal memo anticipating troublesome news stories and instructing agency employees how to spin them. A sample report from late February (see below and on page two) enunciates that day's party line on ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias. (Note that several other items were removed from this memo before it was made public.) The memo's author establishes his or her partisan bona fides by referring to "Democrat lawmakers" rather than "Democratic lawmakers."

The previous month Monica Goodling, then counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, wordlessly forwarded an article that appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune about departing U.S. Attorney Carol Lam ("Lam Stays Silent About Losing Job"). Goodling sent the story via her home email account (it was a Saturday) to her immediate boss, the attorney general's then chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, and to a few other high-ranking officials in the department. (See page three.) Lam, who had won a corruption case against Rep. Duke Cunningham, R.-Calif., the year before, was not yet commenting publicly about being forced to resign. Privately, however, she'd spoken with her friend Dan Dzwilewski, who'd led the Cunningham investigation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Diego office. Agent Dzwilewski, a decorated FBI veteran, had then told the Union Tribune, "I don't think it's the right way to treat anybody … I feel Carol … has done an excellent job given her limited resources." Dzwilewski had said he was concerned about the disruption of ongoing cases, including the about-to-be-announced resolution of the bribery case against CIA official Dusty Foggo. He'd also speculated that Lam had been politically railroaded ("I guarantee politics is involved").

Sampson forwarded Goodling's email to Lisa Monaco, special counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller (page four), with terse instructions to "bring to the Director's immediate attention the comments" of this insolent G-man. By 6:15 that evening (page five) Mueller had ordered deputy director John Pistole to reprimand Dzwilewski. Three months later, Dzwilewski, a 27-year employee, "retired" from the FBI to work security for an energy firm. Asked whether Dzwilewski's retirement was a result of his comments about Lam, an FBI headquarters spokesman told the Union Tribune he had "no comment."





http://www.slate.com/id/2167514/entry/0/

[Greyskye]

1. Wow, If that's not political interference...

...it sure as hell stinks like it.

:kick: & R

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[Greyskye]

12. Whoa, what did they say?

A deleted reply to my post? My innocuous fly-by post gets hit by something that the mods had to delete? Man am I curious!

:shrug:

[aquart]

2. The devoted Christian reveled in her power to destroy, didn't she?

[librechik]

4. please don't castigate Monica. Religioconservatives have a missing brain part

It's not their fault. It's a mental illness. Did you see how bewildered she looked when she finally realized that she had committed a crime "but didn't mean to?" She actually DIDN'T Know what she was doing was wrong, and she's a lawyer! Authoritarianism (and it's braindead devotees)
KILLS!

If they ever had one, they give up their moral compass to Cheney when they sign on with the BFEE.

[truedelphi]

8. She is such a knowledgeable attorney that she didn't even

Realize that taking the Fifth when you have been offered immunity is rather redundant!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Someday they will attach Monica Gooding's role to the course they

now teach in college which strives to determine why so many Nazi soldiers followed such terrible orders.

[tblue37]

9. "Good Germans" become "Goodling Germans"? n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Well, it would be a comparative study, of course.

[november3rd]

3. It's incredible

The Founders' worst nightmare: a ruling class that insulates itself from public scrutiny and accountability -- across Federal departments and agencies (and, as we're now seeing, across parties, too!)

Not only that, but they're backed up by a generation-old military caste of professional soldiers who owe their allegiance to the Pentagon and private security companies, not the Constitution of the United States.

They're both working with the media conglomerates that will do anything the politicians want, as long as the politicians dangle greater deregulation in front of their greedy faces.

Looks to me like the American people are checkmated.

[proud patriot]

13. Indeed

:grr:

[dogday]

6. Sad state of affairs when our own Justice Department

needs to spin anything to the American people... A freaking shame and a half....

[UpInArms]

7. The Cult of Death that has infiltrated the entire mal-administration

needs to be imprisoned. They certainly are all criminals. The crimes keep piling in.

I do so hope there will be a country left when we have chased them out of their offices of power.