M.Goodling - Has anything of any REAL substance

[SaveOurDemocracy]

been uncovered? I'm sorry but no time to read 12 threads. Any highlights?

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Nope, no smoking guns n/t

[SaveOurDemocracy]

3. They sure know how to close ranks...

unlike the Dems. :grr:

Thanks Fredda :hi:

[burythehatchet]

2. Just another afternoon of perjury and obstruction of justice

[SaveOurDemocracy]

5. They've made it a science.

:nuke: Thanks.

[Cyrano]

4. The way things are going so far, they'd probably get more out of Paris Hilton. N/T

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. and now Paris has a Bible ...

Regents and DoJ next for Paris?

[WilliamPitt]

6. Nope.

There was a political litmus test for hiring/firing.

Wow. I'm stunned.

Oh, P.S., CAN SOMEONE ASK WHAT GONZALES' ROLE IN THIS WAS, PLEASE??

JUST ONE FUCKING QUESTION ABOUT THAT???

EH???

[pscot]

8. like peeling an onion

strip away one layer and there's an identical layer underneath. And it's enough to make you cry.

[tiptoe]

9. a few links

Loyal to the White House, Not the Rule of Law

...
Goodling went on to:

• confirm that former DOJ Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson had compiled a list of US Attorneys who would be fired -- apparently for being insufficiently partisan in their inquiries and prosecutions -- and that Gonzales had been aware of the list and involved in meetings about it,

• place White House political czar Karl Rove in a room where the firings were discussed,

• acknowledge that, as early as 2OO5, there was talk about forcing US Attorneys out to make way for White House favorites and

• explain how US Attorneys were "rewarded" for helping to promote and defend the Patriot Act, at a time when that law was under attack as an assault on basic liberties.
...
"I do acknowledge that I may have gone too far in asking political questions of applicants for career positions, and may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account on some occasions," Goodling told the committee early in her testimony. She said she made "snap judgments" to block qualified applicants because they were Democrats. Only under intense questioning from committee members Linda Sanchez, D-California, and Jerry Nadler, D-New York, did she offer the details and perspective that made it clear her so-called "mistakes" were part of a deliberate and ongoing pattern of politicization of the hiring process at the nation's chief law-enforcement agency.
...

Goodling Says Deputy Attorney General Misled Congress (US Attorneys firings hearing)

[SaveOurDemocracy]

11. Thanks for the links. n/t

[MADem]

12. People want a "J'accuse" moment, and they aren't gonna get that.

But she DID, as you noted, put KKKarl (and other WH cretins) in the room...that's a start.

[Danieljay]

10. Nope. And the Bush Cabal continues to rule. Reminds me of Fitzmas.

Yawn.

[Fredda Weinberg]

13. Well, she just contradicted Gonazalez

And basically testified that he perjured himself before Congress. Pass the popcorn ... it was enuf to send the Rs into parliamentary pretzels.

[OHdem10]

14. She admitted she broke the law when she admitted she

used politics in hiring practices. She calls it crossing the line.
It is illegal to hire career employess using the Political persuasion
as a factor in decision making.

She has immunity---nothing she ssys can be used against her.