Gonzales will possibly be nailed on witness tampering

...as an internal inquiry looks into the March conversation on the prosecutor firings that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales held with his aide Monica Goodling:

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Gonzales Meeting With Aide Scrutinized
Justice Dept. Checking For Possible Wrongdoing

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 15, 2007; Page A01

The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to improperly influence the testimony of a departing senior aide, two of its senior officials said yesterday, adding a new dimension to the troubles already besetting the nation's chief law enforcement official.

The Justice Department officials, in a letter released yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, said their inquiry into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys includes an examination of a meeting Gonzales held in mid-March with his then-aide Monica M. Goodling, who testified last month that the attorney general's comments during the session made her feel "a little uncomfortable."

The topic of discussion at the meeting was what had happened in the months leading up to firings of the U.S. attorneys, and Gonzales recounted his recollection of events before asking for her reaction, according to Goodling's congressional testimony in May. She said Gonzales's comments discomfited her because both Congress and the Justice Department had already launched investigations of the dismissals.

Goodling's account attracted attention partly because Gonzales had told Congress that he could not remember numerous details about the prosecutors' dismissals because he had purposely avoided discussing the issue with other potential "fact witnesses."

Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse repeated yesterday a previous statement by Gonzales that the attorney general never sought to influence Goodling's testimony. A White House spokesman also reiterated that President Bush "fully supports the attorney general," who this week was the target of an unsuccessful no-confidence vote organized by Senate Democrats.

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"There is something fundamentally inappropriate about the attorney general of the United States recounting his recollection to a subordinate in this type of situation," Cohen said. "But it may not be subornation of perjury or witness tampering or obstruction of justice."

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So point by point Gonzales tells Goodling what he recalls on the firings and says it in a way that Monica thinks he is telling her what to remember. Gonzo has been caught red-handed in a lie to Congress and that means perjury!

I mean, they're going after Fitzgerald for being too independent and not beholden to the President enough. Internal DoJ investigators can be dealt with more easily. All that matters is sucking up the cost.

That is where the info came out, and where Gonzales told his lies.

of their own. They stick together like white on rice. Gonzo's not going anywhere. Who would arrest him? Is he going to arrest himself?

The psycho will never let him go. He's covering up all the crimes this regime has committed.

as well as other malfeasants (think Capone and tax evasion) went down on a secondary charge (lying to a grand jury).

Witness tampering here seems a plausible case, from this layman's point of view.

There was something behind firing those USAs. And, they are investigating the things they want to focus on, not the things they don't want us focused on. Randy Cunningham and Jack Abramoff, and others, are in jail, and that is the fate they wish to avoid, joining them. They are part of the same Country Club of Corruption, but want to avoid the country club behind the fence.