More On Monica Goodling...

[WillyT]

Bush Loyalist Rose Quickly at Justice

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 30, 2007

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When a college intern in the Justice Department whined that all he was doing was filing and answering phones, Monica M. Goodling took him aside. If he wanted to do "substantive work," she told him, he was going to have to prove himself first.

The intern walked out of the office in a huff, and when he returned an hour later, Goodling took him aside again. "You're fired," she said.

"Some people in the office thought: 'Wow! That was tough,' " said Mark Corallo, her former boss in Justice's Office of Public Affairs, who recalled the incident. "But I thought, 'Good for her.' "

Part of a generation of young religious conservatives who swept into the federal government after the election of President Bush in 2000, Goodling displayed unblinking devotion to the administration and expected others to do the same. When she started at Justice, "no job was too small for her," and as she moved rapidly up the ranks, none "was too large," Corallo said.

"She was the embodiment of a hardworking young conservative who believed strongly in the president and his mission," said David Ayres, former chief of staff to Bush's first attorney general, John D. Ashcroft.

This week, Goodling, 33, became the most prominent federal official to invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before Congress since Lt. Col. Oliver L. North refused to answer questions -- until he received immunity -- during the 1986 Iran-contra hearings.

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More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032901964.html

Gee Monica... way to rise to the top there girl!

So, are you afraid that congress is gonna treat you with the same understanding and compassion as you did that intern many moons ago???

Wassa matta tuff girl???

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[BlueJac]

1. She is a f**king coward and a traitor to this country.

[Warpy]

2. Pleading the Fifth should have constituted her resignation

and in an honest administration, it would have.

Admitting that one is guilty of a crime is bad enough in most parts of the government; it is unconscionable in the DOJ.

What sort of justice can honest people expect from criminals?

[C_U_L8R]

3. the republican way to f*ck your way to the top

by f*cking people over

[lazer47]

4. All of these nut jobs sooner of later

will wind up with a felony conviction,, it may take awhile but it WILL happen

[grasswire]

5. before she worked at the DoJ...

..she was the protege of Barbara Comstock at the RNC's opposition research team. I kid you not. She is the product of Comstock's scorched earth style of politics of personal destruction.

And then she worked for Comstock at DoJ.

And Tim Griffin also worked under Comstock at DoJ as Barbara's deputy.

This is a bunch of thugs.

[tsuki]

6. I was listening to a nutjob on the radio who said pleading the 5th

does not necessarily mean you have done something wrong. What does it mean then?

IMHO, she need to be immediately investigated to see what she has done that she needs to plea the 5th. If she and her lawyers think she needs to invoke the 5th, then she has done something criminal that the truth will expose.

Wrote my congressman also.

[salin]

8. That certainly is the implication - just what criminal act might she

implicate herself for? There is no right to avoid subpeona - the fifth is strictly, as you point out, about not implicating self in criminal act(s).

Clearly that nutjob thinks there is no need for courts in this country - as if "pleading the fifth" means not having to testify because one doesn't want to, or because the lawyers might be hostile ... doesn't work that way. If it did - imagine all of the courtcases grinding to a stop. Perhaps that rw radio nutjob is "pro criminal"?

[WillyT]

7. Guess She Pleading The 5th To The House Too !!!

Link: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002931.php

I guess she flunked Morality 101 at Robertson's University.

And she seems so nice...



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