Torture Her! (Monica Goodling) by David Michael Green

[Demeter]

http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Torture_Her.html

So Monica Goodling doesn’t want to answer questions on Capitol Hill, eh?

This top official in the Justice Department, who serves as its liaison to the White House, is now refusing to answer any congressional questions about the US attorneys scandal...Her lawyer says that Goodling doesn’t actually have anything to hide, but rather that – just like the judicial travesty that recently took down Scooter Libby – a “hostile and questionable environment” has surrounded the case. As opposed to the good kind of investigations, you see, where the White House doesn’t bother to answer the friendly questions that Congress and the press don’t bother to ask. You know, like the last six years or so.

So Goodling’s lawyer has just announced that his client will be invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination – even though, mind you, she didn’t do anything wrong! – rather than testifying to Congress.

Fifth Amendment? Fifth Amendment? You mean like, the Bill of Rights? That Fifth Amendment?

Doesn’t she know that the Fifth Amendment has been suspended?

Doesn’t she know that all those amendments have been suspended?

Doesn’t she know that the president considers that whole document that these amendments amend to be “just a goddamed piece of paper”?

She’s joking here, right? I thought she worked for the Justice Department in the Bush administration? Hasn’t she heard?

Or maybe she’s still waiting for her interoffice mail from the last five years to clear NSA.

Boy, is she gonna be surprised. We all know how committed the Bush people are to protecting the country from evildoers. Next thing you know, little Miss Monica Goodling is going to find herself bound and gagged, and on a short but very uncomfortable flight to Guantánamo.

And that’s if she’s lucky. If not, she’ll be getting a wee taste of extraordinary rendition to some place like Egypt or Syria. Those fellas know how to make a gal sing! Lemme tell ya, brother, there aren’t any pesky amendments in Syria, and there never were.

I hope Ms. Goodling doesn’t think that her attorney will get the charges dropped for her. In fact, she won’t be having an attorney.

I hope she doesn’t think that the evidence she presents will exonerate her. In fact, she won’t be presenting any.

I hope she doesn’t think there will be a fair trial before a jury of her peers. In fact, she’s gonna be rotting away in a dank cell somewhere, never even charged with any actual offense.

And she can forget about making a habeas corpus appeal, too. Even though it was considered for centuries to be one of the great traditions of Western jurisprudence, Dear Leader knew better than that and had the foresight to eliminate it, so that evildoers couldn’t get away on some minor legal technicality like unlawful imprisonment.

Habeas corpus? Ancient history. Just like all the rest of that Latin mumbo-jumbo. Bag ‘em and tag ‘em are the legal lyrics we sing these days. This president’s a (nearly real) Texan! Don’t mess with Texas!

....Fifth Amendment rights. That’s rich. We haven’t had that around these parts since nigh about the twentieth century. Next I suppose she’ll be claiming that her preordained death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment! Talk about quaint and obsolete.

Fifth Amendment rights. Hah. What does she think this is, the old United States of America?

[whistle]

1. "Ms. Goodling, are you now, or have you ever been a Christian Fascist?"

...."I decline to answer that question on the grounds that my answer may incriminate me."

"Ms. Goodling, you must answer under the modifications to our constitution which suspended all civil rights during a state of war."

Well, we'll know when she is brought before congress to testify!

[tom_paine]

8. Or a Loyal Bushie, which is the same thing as a Christofascist

[texpatriot2004]

2. K & R nm

[fasttense]

3. Torture her to get the truth.

You know she planted the proverbial ticking bomb that is just waiting to go off and expose all the pResident's liars. We need to torture her and find out where it is before she lets it explode and ruins all the good little bushies. Tortured information is just sooooo reliable. :sarcasm:

[5X]

4. Perfect answer to these idiots. K and R. n/t

[cassiepriam]

5. How about the Ken Starr treatment. Everybody had to talk to him or go to jail.

[EVDebs]

6. On KO tonite John Dean says her bar assn may want to revoke her law license

I can't imagine why she just doesn't make herself a heroine and spill her guts. Bushco be damned. THEY got her into the mess she's in.

[Dan]

7. Disagree...

There are a lot of "adults" who have contributed to this mess and supported Bush. Now, to turn around and say they were mislead is a form of intellectual dishonesty, its sole purpose to avoid personal responsibility and accountability. I personally hope that her ass goes to jail, not only her, but as many members of this Administration as possible. And, I mean a serious jail - where some seriously damaged people make their permanent home. For the rest of us, at some point if the Democratic party does the right thing - we should have a tax imposed on all of us - so that we can start to pay the bills, and start to do the right thing by those that we have harmed.

I'm happy that the Democratic party is now educating the nation on what "WE" as a nation have been about for the past six years - under this administration and this man. While Bush was empowered by the GOP Congress, he was also enabled by a willing (majority against a very vocal minority) USA. I so regret that the nation selected a man that they could Bar-B-Que with as compared to just researching his record as governor in Texas prior to 2000.

The shame of this administration is collectively ours as a nation. We unleashed a fool on the world.

I've said this for six years, Mr. Bush has made the nation a s--- sandwich - and before he leaves office, we're all going to have a bite.