Somebody Riddle Me This... Why Did Goodling Need To Be Immunized ???

[WillyT]

I mean... what has she said that could get her arrested in normal circumstances? What earth-shaking revelations does she possess that made it necessary to get committee approval, the approval of the DOJ and a federal judge for this immunity deal???

Seriously, was this all just a ruse to make us look even more pathetic than yesterday?

Am I missing something here?

:shrug::banghead::shrug:

[acmavm]

1. She got vaccinated?

[WillyT]

2. LOL !!!

She got a congressional Polio shot.

:banghead:

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Here' another riddle...with tools like the Cons, what is Rove afraid of?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. I'm going to assume it was in case someone asked the right question

From what I saw, and I have missed a bit, it wasn't necessary.

[WillyT]

16. I Think You May Be Correct

But if we don't have the right questions by now...

I hope our congress critters are having a "working" lunch, and trying to come up with the questions she needed to be immunized for!

:wtf:

[monmouth]

5. So she wouldn't get the pox.....

[Mandate My Ass]

6. So they could get higher up the food chain where this plan was hatched

I believe it was Maxine Waters who got fed up with all MG's "I can't remember(s)" and "I don't know(s)" and said, "We need to have Karl Rove sitting in the chair where you are now to get to the bottom of this.

[Louis Cipher]

7. Typhoid Monica

[EVDebs]

8. Lam cases obstructed...what did she know, when did she know it; who directed her in WH ?

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250 /

BTW, this article is over a year old now...and her attny, John Dowd, specialized in money-laundering/whitecollar crimes. Hmmm, who better to represent Ms Goodling (and Bush, indirectly).

[SaveAmerica]

9. Rabies?

[DefenseLawyer]

10. She needed to be immunized

because the exercised her Fifth Amendment right. Whether she actually needed to our not. Of course technically one can only take the Fifth on specific questions and only upon a good faith showing that the answer could be incriminating. It would have been possible to subpoena her, have her refuse, hold her in contempt, and go to court, where after a year or so a judge would rule on the whole matter. Much easier just to grant her immunity, thus taking away her Fifth Amendment protection, and get on with it.

[seemslikeadream]

11. I don't know but here's the headlines

Goodling Accuses Colleague of Misleading Congress (Update1)
Bloomberg - 39 minutes ago
Monica Goodling, the former White House liaison for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, disputed McNulty's assertions that she withheld information from him ...
Monica Goodling: Deputy AG 'not candid' on firings El Paso Times
Goodling Offers Up Red Meat On The Stand The Gate
Goodling Says Deputy Attorney General Misled Congress Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle
all 568 news articles »
Goodling denies major role in firings
Houston Chronicle, TX - 12 minutes ago
6, "was incomplete or inaccurate in a number of respects," Monica Goodling told a packed House Judiciary Committee inquiry into the firings. ...

Goodling Denies Major Role in Firings
Examiner.com - 18 minutes ago
Former Justice Department White House liaison Monica Goodling is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, prior to testifying before ...

Goodling Testifies
CBS News, NY - 15 minutes ago
(Political Animal) GOODLING TESTIFIES....So far Monica Goodling has called Paul McNulty a liar and admitted that she might have used partisan criteria for ...

Ex-White Liaison Monica Goodling Admits She 'Crossed the Line'
ABC News - 18 minutes ago
Expressing regret for having gone "too far" in asking political questions of applicants for career positions at the Department of Justice, Monica Goodling, ...

Goodling on Iglesias Firing: Who Knows?
TPMmuckraker, NY - 1 hour ago
Bobby Scott (D-VA), Goodling couldn't say why US Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias had been put on the firing list. Earlier in the hearing, ...
Goodling Admits to Political Hiring TPMmuckraker
all 2 news articles »
Goodling denies key role in US attorney firings
Los Angeles Times, CA - 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -- Monica M. Goodling, until now the mystery woman in the scandal involving eight fired federal prosecutors, came out of the shadows today and ...

Goodling tries to distance herself from firings of federal prosecutors
KGAN, IA - 21 minutes ago
Monica Goodling, testifying with immunity before a House panel, says she was concerned that the Justice Department would publicly criticize the performance ...

Goodling Appears
The BLT, D.C. - 2 hours ago
Monica Goodling appeared for the media moment of her life dressed in a dark skirt-suit flanked by her two lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, ...

[BobRossi]

12. Gonzo has cooties.

And stupid is contagious.

[izzie]

13. I would not talk to them with out it.

I may not think I have done a thing wrong but my big worry is always who is saying what is right or wrong. Same reason I do not want any party to be looking into what I say and have rights over it. Like tapping my phone. We just do not know who has the say on what is good talk or bad talk. It is who is making up those rules that are the scary ones.

[Lex]

14. They don't know AHEAD of time what she'll say

so they can't know if giving her immunity will give them what they seek.

[ShortnFiery]

17. Shit! A five minute interview with her should have convinced Dems that she's a Bush-ite Groupie ...

par excellence. She not only drinks the Bush-World Order Koolaid, she makes and serves it at parties. Why in The Hell they did not choose to give Sampson immunity INSTEAD OF the shameless political hack, one each, Monica Goodling, is a mystery to me. :shrug:

[DefenseLawyer]

20. They didn't choose

to give her immunity, they gave her immunity to dispense with her assertion of a Fifth Amendment claim and proceed with having her testify. Sampson didn't assert a privilege, thus there was no reason to grant him immunity.

[ShortnFiery]

24. Thanks, point taken. IMO - let's give Sampson immunity --> UNLEASH him?

Sampson has proved to be more forthcoming. :shrug:

[WillyT]

19. Is That True ???

I always thought that immunity was only granted after you had some sort of notion of the testimony the witness was going to give.

Again... has she said ANYTHING that would have incriminated her?

:shrug:

[Lex]

21. You might have a notion, but the witness isn't going to say for sure

what they know (and risk incrimination) until the immunity is in place.

[triguy46]

15. With all the forgetfulness in the * administration....

You wonder if they need their name and address pinned to their clothes so people can help them find their way home. IMHO, "I don't recall" is bushspeak for "fuck you."

[MiniMe]

18. That she asked career staffers and applicants political questions

That she now realizes that she was shouldn't have done that. Cry me a river Monica, if your law degree were worth anything, you should know that anyway.

[enki23]

22. i suppose there are a couple possibilities:

1) it may have been a mistake. clearly, she's a "loyal bushie". that is, she's far more loyal to her cabal than she is to her country. that's what it means to be a "loyal bushie" rather than merely a loyal american. that she almost certainly believes they're the same thing is not evidence in her favor. in any case, she wouldn't incriminate anyone in the bush administration on purpose. which brings us to:

2) she may have been given immunity to induce her to testify knowing there was a good chance that, despite her "best" intentions, she would fuck up her testimony as badly as her boss regularly does.

[kenny blankenship]

23. To perform her function as a firewall