Sampson should read those self-same e-mails to the committee and to the american public.

And then we get to see all of the Bushian dead-enders cry.

Monica Goodling then came into Margolis' office and proceeded to break down and cry for 30-40 minutes, sobbing that she had only wanted to serve the President, the Administration and the Department.

Poor girl--all she did was mess with people's lives, and screw around with the criminal justice system, and subvert the Constitution, and now people are being mean to her!

Didn't Congress demand to see these emails weeks ago?

Sobbed for 30-40 minutes? I can't imagine anyone who has gone through the soul-scarring ordeal of law school AND who has fired people for political reasons doing that. That doesn't sound plausible. Unless of course, she was worried about spending time in The Big House.

It's funny, but with all the recent developments in this case, all pointing squarely at the White House, the original firings look like small potatoes. It turns out that Kit Bond knew enough to call the White House when Graves asked him to do what he could do to get him a little time to finish his work. The fiction that the White House wasn't involved is real.

As to White House involvment being a surprise, nearly all the emails in the original document dump pointed squarely at Harriet Meirs and Scott Jennings. Both White House employees. The White House involvement in this mess has been known from the beginning.

What is in those emails?

Why did those emails make Monica cry??

I always love watching self-righteous pricks and sandbox bullies cry when they're hoist on their own petards. Everything George Bush ever touched turned to shit, and now he's damn near done it to us. Not "the worst president ever," he's "the most worthless president ever." And cleaning out the sleeper cells of the Boys and Girls from Brazil these scum have salted through government is going to be a full-time occupation for the next administration.

But, don't coverups serve at the pleasure of the President?

You're allowed to cry if you attend Regent U?

And, we'll see how deep the Dems go with their questions. Alberto V-05 still hasn't gotten a contempt of Congress charge yet, right?

Ah, Kevin.

"Monica Goodling then came into Margolis' office and proceeded to break down and cry for 30-40 minutes, sobbing that she had only wanted to serve the President, the Administration and the Department. "

G_d. Don't you people have any sense of humanity?

myrtle parker: "Why did those emails make Monica cry??"

Ms. Goodling is obviously a true believer in The Glorious Cause, and she perhaps suddenly realized that her loyalty to the president was not reciprocal, and that it wasn't going to save her from being legally scapegoated by those people she had heretofore idolized.

She should now, in the interest of self-preservation, accept the congressional Democrats' generous offer of immunity, and purge her soul of its demons by leveling with Congress and the American people as to her precise role in this attempted political hijacking of our Department of Justice by these corrupt neocon charlatans.

And, we'll see how deep the Dems go with their questions. Alberto V-05 still hasn't gotten a contempt of Congress charge yet, right? Posted by: SocraticGadfly on May 9, 2007 at 3:05 PM

Yeah, that really irks me to no end. Congress is doing absolutely nothing other than posturing and whining.

Don't threaten to issue subpenoes, issue the damn things!

And here I thought the Fifth Amendment protected Monica from having to hear bad news....

"Don't you people have any sense of humanity?"

LOL... Oh, the irony, coming from a 'bot.

Gee, eggie, and here I thought people like you were supposed to be sympathetic to the victims rather than to the perp....

something about that involvement was improper. When Goodling finally testifies, maybe we'll find out what that was.

Kevin, is that a joke?

They used the massive power of the Justice Department for purely partisan political ends in a deliberate and premeditated miscarriage of justice. They acted as if they were tin-pot dictators in some banana republic instead of upholding the rule of law in a free republic. They subverted the rule of law and the Constitution they were sworn before God to uphold in order to achieve their authoritarian ends.

I'm sure the voter fraud cases were just the tip of the iceberg. We will find out the specifics of that scandal and hints of others, as well, but the evidence of the outlines of the case are clear, and they point right to the President of the United States.

I love Gonzo's line about putting the WH's role "in the public sphere..." I remember when we used to be told in school that everything the WH did was public. The walls are certainly clear when they have sex!

egbert, you're a funny, funny man.

. . . sobbing that she had only wanted to serve the President, the Administration and the Department.

Not a thing in there about Monica wanting to serve her country, the public, or justice - not even as a second thought. Nada.

I think I can spot the problem.

Jeffrey Davis: Sobbed for 30-40 minutes? I can't imagine anyone who has gone through the soul-scarring ordeal of law school ... doing that.

Not law school. Regent Seminary.

My personal view is that Monica's crying bout was a result her knowing and understanding the level of her personal legal jeopardy. Now, she and the rest may truly be the wingerest of the wingnuts, but they did graduate from law school, and have to have some smarts about them to get where they got. We can't all be related to George H.W. Bush and fall into top government positions.

This also explains, in my view, the nervousness on the Administration's part. I think the problem they have -- and they know it -- is the imposition of ideological benchmarks for permanent hires. If Monica spills her guts on this little plan, the shit will really hit the fan, because anyone with common sense will be able to see and understand why said litmus tests are bad for America.

This is gonna get interesting. I don't think the Bushies completely understand yet exactly what they've done....

Tony: I think the problem they have -- and they know it -- is the imposition of ideological benchmarks for permanent hires.

These fools (like Monica) are either too stupid to realize that party loyalty only flows one way, up, or worse realize it and are so pathetically authoritarian that they just don't care.

The paper recently posted at TPM suggests that the white house does not have authority to name atorneys. On the contrary: selection is limited to (a) the President (b) the courts or (c) the head of department (Gonzalez), depending on the will of Congress.

"Sobbed for 30-40 minutes?"

Political ploy. It is all they ever do.

These slimebuckets were brought to power by our moral superiors of the religious right, so how about some Matthew 23-24:

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

It's painful regurgitating a camel, isn't it Ms. Goodling?

mac: On the contrary: selection is limited to (a) the President (b) the courts or (c) the head of department (Gonzalez), depending on the will of Congress.

The "White House" typically refers to the president's staff, not the president himself.

If one means the president, then one simply says the president.

The president's staff (the White House) isn't the president, or a court, or the head of any department.

Thus, I fail to see the reason for "on the contrary."

Poor girl--all she did was mess with people's lives, and screw around with the criminal justice system, and subvert the Constitution, and now people are being mean to her!

If she had only gone to a real law school, she might have known ahead of time that her actions were criminal.

As to White House involvment being a surprise, nearly all the emails in the original document dump pointed squarely at Harriet Meirs and Scott Jennings. Both White House employees. The White House involvement in this mess has been known from the beginning.

Yeah, but those were selectively released by Rove to throw investigators off his track. Eg, those first docs made it seem like the idea to fire all USAttys originated with Miers, whereas we now know that she was floating an idea that originated with Rove.

Confucius says "Presidents always get into trouble with Monicas eager to serve."

Disputo, yeah, it's tough to see why we should feel sorry for Monica. Look what she's done to people.

Did these guys really think congressional oversight would never return? I guess it's a stupid question considering it is the same group that didn't plan for Iraq post Saddam.

Everything that happens in government is within the public sphere. That a lot of Republicans don't want to believe this pretty well defines them out of public life.

Please understand that the bottom line for this non-issue is as follows: in 1980, Reagan and Bush capitalized upon voter discontent with a president seen as weak and vacillating; however their promise of a strong Executive Branch was diminished by a Democrat Congress, which passed the Boland Amendment, making military aid to the Contras illegal (in their fight against the Sandinistas--they nationalized the Banks, ect.). In other words, if the second rate actor was to successfully charge forth with his rapacious doctrine, he would need JUSTICE at his side... One by one the doomed division heads, deputy and assist. att. gens. fell to Att. Gen. Meese's terrible, swift sword... "I know of at least fifty or sixty career employees who have been reassigned or forced out," a former DOJ official asserted. The DOJ, which had begun the decade embracing a criminal custom of turning a blind eye to certain criminal activities, was now a full fledged partner (in '74, after investigating the FBI, the Church Committee found: "Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views ... vicious tactics have been employed ...") "The bottom line is that the DOJ as presently constituted is a totally dishonest organization, riddled with political fixes," a former congressional investigator clarified. Following the '92 election, extensive document shredding commenced; "It started immediately after the election and is more extensive than anything in anyone's memory. Here you have twelve years--Inslaw, BCCI, BNL, ect., and the stonewalling of Meese and Thornburgh and Barr," a senior DOJ official confirmed.

Here one wonders why Congress has "its panties all in a bunch" over the glaringly legal firings, yet it's quiet as a clam where, in US v. Watts, the US Supreme Court committed blatant crime: "It is difficult to square this statutory command to impose incremental punishment for each of the 'multiple offenses' of which a defendant 'is convicted' with the conclusion that Congress intended incremental punishment for each offense of which the defendant has been acquitted," Justice Stevens in his dissenting opinion.

Like--we really should be scared of the big, bad US Attorney!!!

It is a compound crime, layers of obstruction over layers of perjury, cast over Hatch Act violations.
The common thread in this is, of course, Rove. He may have broken the all-time record for malfeasance previously held by Harding. Congratulations to him. He sucks the life out of this government. Can't wait for the other shoe to finally drop on him. Gannon? Abramoff? Rove hiring hit men? It will be something completely out there, but well within his "character."

For the latest news, document dumps, email archives, hearing transcripts and other essential materials in the firings of U.S. attorneys, see:
"The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents."

What upsetting revelation could still be left to uncover? Here's just a hunch: Could Pat Robertson have been vetting the U.S. Attorney applications/resignations?

Yes, egbert. Monica Goodling should do some hard time.

wonder if gwb is set for a big f-u to congress..

with gonzales...

say abu resigns on...sat. 5/26...

bush pulls a recess appointment of a loyal bushie..during the memorial day break..

who would be surprised?