Goodling: McNaulty "not fully candid".

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Ex-Justice aide: Official wasn't ?fully candid?
Goodling says Deputy Attorney General McNulty misled lawmakers


BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 11:36 a.m. ET May 23, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's former White House liaison has told Congress that the department's No. 2 official was not candid with lawmakers about the firings of several federal prosecutors last year.

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So. No surprise there. Will be interesting to see how much more momentum this feeds the rolling snowball. I believe this will be the battleground the Dems will chose to turn the screws on the Bush administration and the Rebublicans. Look for more calls for AG AG to resign pronto.

 

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I have to conclude that Monica Goodling is a dry hole---she admits she broke the law by using partisan tests in hiring and firing----but somehow her rationale is that she didn't intend to, then blames McNulty and Samson and implied McNulty was less than truthful in his testimony. And more tellingly, denied talking to Karl Rove or Harriet Miers. Its unclear if she is done testifying yet, but thus far, I have to conclude the Monica Goodling testimony sheds some light but does little to turn up the heat on others involved in the corrupting of the Justice Department.

I am guessing the Republican spin line will be that there is nothing to the ENTIRE Gonzales scandal, but as someone who believes there is a criminal conspiracy here, the committee is either going to hit Goodling with more probing questions or conclude Goodling yielded little productive information.

But I can't disagree with the OP, there are still many productive avenues to pursue---especially the missing emails and the violations of the Federal Record Keeping Act. As for Goodling,
her fears came true, her career in the Federal Government is indeed over and two clouds remain over her head. And Goodling had better worry about the thunderstorm supercell that could land her in jail if later information shows she perjured herself in testimony.

Otherwise Goodling is best called a draw---Gonzales looks no better and maybe slightly worse, and the investigations will go on. And Gonzales is very likely be to be linked to a host of other law breaking schemes regarding torture, illegal spying, and really weird interpretations of simple language that would make Orwell blush.---but those will be separate investigations.

Ignore Republican ranting regarding the rehabilitaton of Gonzales---this is far from over.----and some will not rest until they have Gonzales's scalp.

 

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Interesting blurb, I'd like more details. I saw most of McNaulty's testimony and he came across pretty credibly to me-and he absolutely buried Gonzales without apparently intending to. The Department of Justice must be totally rudderless these days-for the life of me, I cannot understand how Gonzales (even with the continued full backing of GWB) can even maintain the illusion of authority or control. I'm astonished he is still in office-it shows what a myopic view so many Administration officials have.

 

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It also somewhat enrages me as a taxpayer---here we are paying out tax dollars to pay someone to be a full time corrupter of American values.---which seems to be the job description and the role Monica played in the Justice Department--Not all hatchmen are male. And now and in part due to Goodling, we have a Cabinet level agency with an entire layer of management totally chopped out. And for all the Republican rage about Jefferson and his $90,000 in cold cash in the freezer, we now have a cabinet level agency that is totally unable to do the things it should be doing---because they are too busy playing partisan games to have any time to do either the peoples business or to have any time to be competent. And the legacy of that will continue until Gonzales is forced out and partisan hacks are forced out of the Justice Department.---and all other taxpayer funded departments for that matter.