You Guys Aware That Monica Goodling Is A Graduate Of Pat Robertson's Law School ???

Gonzo-Meter went up to 80% today.

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Last week, Gonzales' DoJ team showed cracks when fired aide Kyle Sampson agreed to testify before Congress. Now the team is breaking into many icebergs. And they're beginning to ram into each other. Loyalty is gone, and even if no one directly implicates Gonzales in wrongdoing, the cumulative chaos may sink him. We're moving the meter to 80.

On iceberg No. 1: Monica Goodling, the White House liaison to the DoJ, now on extended leave, is taking the Fifth rather than testify before Congress. In his letter to the Senate judiciary committee, Goodling's lawyer alludes to the ultimate fall guy of the moment, Scooter Libby, and suggests that his client is at risk of self-incrimination because the "hostile and questionable environment" of the committee is "legally perilous" for her. The lawyer also says that a DoJ official (presumably Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty) blames Goodling for failing to "inform him of certain pertinent facts" before he testified to Congress last month.

The idea seems to be that Goodling, a 33-year-old graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law, could say something to Congress that's at odds with what McNulty or other DoJ-ers will say and thus expose herself to future charges if a future court doesn't believe her version. This is spin. You can't take the Fifth because of some hypothetical future risk of perjury or obstruction of justice or making false statements to Congress or the crime of concealing information from Congress "by any trick, scheme or device." (Here's the statute; Goodling's lawyer doesn't cite another basis for criminal liability, and we haven't turned up anything else in the day's research.) If you could take the Fifth for maybe-someday exposure, then a witness at a criminal trial who had nothing to do with the crime at issue could refuse to testify based entirely on her claim that a prosecutor might subsequently allege that her testimony was untruthful. You also can't take the Fifth because you think your questioners are hostile, points out Neil Kinkopf, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law and a Clinton-era DoJ official.

On iceberg No. 2: Apparently the famously hapless Harriet Miers has her defenders. Someone with e-mails to leak has turned on McNulty and blamed him for igniting the whole scandal by calling the U.S. attorney firings performance-related. According to "an unreleased internal White House e-mail described to ABC News," the former White House counsel told McNulty to stick to the line that the administration would not talk about personnel issues. Thus, it's all his fault for ignoring her advice and he's on his own to deal with the consequences.

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Link: http://www.slate.com/id/2162774/fr/flyout

5 icebergs in all, LOL!

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And ya gotta wonder how entrenched Robertson's and Falwell's law school graduates, along with the Federalist Society folk, are in our American Judicial system.

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I know most republicons won't recognize that statement, but just maybe someone who went to Regent has a clue...

Your gonna have to serve somebody...

Serve somebody...who?

That the right wing put into place years ago to replace our government with a theocracy.

They made good progress until the American public turned against them. W was their result.

We now have to deal with Alito and Roberts.

They were obviously taught a pack of lies about how the Constitution, Congress, subpeonas, etc. work.

These people are just evil.

Check out this crap:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16977359.htm

Just not of the heavenly type!

Apparently... when one of god's lawyers is in trouble, they go out and get a more pragmatic attorney.



John M. Dowd heads the firm's criminal litigation group. Mr. Dowd has prosecuted and defended significant criminal matters at trial and in parallel proceedings before Congress and regulatory agencies for more than 30 years. His practice focuses on the trial of complex civil and criminal cases.

Mr. Dowd is noted for his representation of a U.S. district judge, a former U.S. attorney and two U.S. senators. In addition, he represented a U.S. governor in a lengthy, high-profile criminal trial involving 23 counts charging false statements, wire fraud and attempted extortion.

Mr. Dowd has represented a U.S. senator before the Department of Justice and the Senate Ethics Committee; a U.S. Army colonel in the Iran Contra Hearings; a U.S. senator before the Senate Ethics Committee; and a U.S. governor in litigation with the Resolution Trust Corporation and in a fact-finding hearing before the House Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, which inquired into the failure of the savings and loan industry. He has served as an arbitrator for the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

And...

Mr. Dowd received his A.B. cum laude from St. Bernard College in 1963 and his J.D. from Emory University in 1965. He was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and a member of the Judge Advocate General Corps. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the American Bar Association. He serves as a member of the board of trustees of Flint Hill School.

Mr. Dowd is listed in Who's Who in America and has been recognized for more than 10 years in The Best Lawyers in America.

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Link: http://www.akingump.com/attorney.cfm?attorney_id=58

Was this guy Ollie North's attorney in Iran Contra??? John Poindexter's???

Holy crap! You KNOW somebody at the WH sent her in his direction!!!

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...and that seems to have been her role at DoJ under Alberto Goebbels

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
by Lawrence Britt
Spring 2003


13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. <MORE>

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

I can't take much more of this.
It stopped being funny long ago.