BREAKING -- on CNN now: Top Gonzales Aide Will PLEAD THE 5TH, refuse to testify

[tgnyc]

Aide is Monica Goodling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17801652/

[myrna minx]

1. Veeeery interesting. n/t

[gatorboy]

2. They already know how she'll plead before they ask any questions?

I wonder whose bright idea that was?

[NNN0LHI]

3. Sounds like the Dems are calling the right people n/t

[myrna minx]

4. Here's the article from LBN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2782039

[Fridays Child]

5. You don't do that if you have nothing to hide. This looks VERY bad for the WH.

[CTyankee]

6. I'll bet she is! Wouldn't you if

you were in her position?

If she takes the 5th is that the end of it? She just walks away?

[tgnyc]

8. Apparently. It saves her neck, though appearances should be enough to end Gonzo

[POAS]

21. Probably a ploy to get immunity for her testimony.

[Ilsa]

7. If only this was related to the WOT, we could send her to GITMO.

That is, as long as the DoD keeps Gates from closing it, which might happen if 'Pubs get sent.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. This is getting gooder and gooder. And Gonzo is goner.

Mmmmm. Lovin' this.

[slowry]

10. How scary is Arlen Specter?

"We have to have an attorney general who is candid, truthful. And if we find out he has not been candid and truthful, that's a very compelling reason for him not to stay on," said Specter, R-Pa.

Does that make any sense whatsoever, to anyone who isn't a complete fucking idiot?

[drm604]

11. Check out this paragraph.

"The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real," said the lawyer, John Dowd.

So it would appear that her attorney believes that the facts would put her in legal jeopardy. That says a lot.

[Iwasthere]

14. But she is gone at the moment

Do you think she will return? Lonnngggg vacation

[durtee librul]

17. No doubt spending quality time

with family.

[Drifter]

12. Can't have a scandal without a Monica ...

Cheers
Drifter

[WiseButAngrySara]

16. ROFL! That is funny. But only the names are the same.

The 'crimes' are of a magnitude of order different.

[BringEmOn]

13. Gonzo's pleading for a 5th right about now.

[Iwasthere]

15. OMG. Oh for a survielance cam on him right now

I wish I could watch this unfold at the WH.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Heck, try some of those Gonzales' approved interrogation techniques on her and I'll bet

she'll talk.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. And the Republican talking heads still say there was no illegal activity here

They say it was a legitimate power of the President to replace US Attorneys as a political move every President makes.

Well, now the specter of crimes possibly having been committed and the need to insulate themselves from having to testify about them raises its ugly head. This is no longer about politics as usual. It's about criminal activity.

Whether her attorney is telling us in advance that his client won't testify, we need to get Ms. Goodling on the record, in front of Congress, pleading the 5th Amendment for all America to see. After that, I think you will see a sobering up of the rabid right wing talking heads who say there's nothing to this latest scandal.

[Uncle Roy]

20. They can offer her immunity. Then she will have to testify.

If they're not out to get her, they can offer her immunity from prosecution for anything they ask her about. Then she won't be able to claim Fifth Ammendment protection from self-incrimination and will have to testify. If she still refuses to testify, then she can be jailed for Contempt of Congress, a phrase that has more than one meaning, they will find....

This sort of thing went on a lot and required some care back in the Watergate days, when there were simultaneous legal and congressional procedings.

[Tansy_Gold]

22. Indeed, that may be their strategy --

By letting the investigators know ahead of time that Ms. Goodling intends to plead the fifth, her attorneys may be signalling that she has valuable testimony that she is willing to give, but her price is immunity from prosecution.

And if that is indeed the case, she (or her attorneys) may grasp how serious is the shit she's in if she doesn't cooperate.



Tansy Gold

[Uncle Roy]

25. I hope you are right!!! These people who are down the food chain a little bit,

and out of the public eye, still know where ALL the bodies are buried and can do a LOT of damage to these criminals.

[Justice Is Comin]

23. We just turned the corner from fishing

to prosecuting admitted crime.

I felt all along Sampson agreeing to come in voluntarily sent them all into freak mode. Soiled undies for everybody.

Can't wait until Thursday!!

[EVDebs]

24. I see a law graduate '99 from Regent Univ's alumni picnic in DC w/same name

http://www.regent.edu/alumni/chapters/washington_dc/DCPicnicPhotos.htm

It this her ?

[tgnyc]

26. That's her. Regent University is a "Christian" law school. Must be that Bush strain of Christianity.

The one where criminality and lying are honorable.

[EVDebs]

27. Jesus would tell the truth, Fire that attorney and testify like a real Christian

She can redeem herself but needs to hear this from us loud and clear, You can have your honor back by testifying like Jesus would want you to !

[Divine Discontent]

28. amen!

I agree, testify MONICA (the name is just hilarious for old times' sake), don't take the fifth.
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[EVDebs]

29. "At least Nixon had the decency to resign" bumper sticker is a classic ! nt

[Divine Discontent]

30. awesome, thanks! n/t