Goodling Shed Tears Before Revelations About Firings (Update1)

[maddezmom]

Source: Bloomberg


By James Rowley

May 4 (Bloomberg) -- A former U.S. Justice Department official and central figure in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys tearfully told a colleague two months ago her government career probably was over as the matter was about to erupt into a political storm, according to closed-door congressional testimony.

Monica Goodling, at the time an aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, sobbed for 45 minutes in the office of career Justice Department official David Margolis on March 8 as she related her fears that she would have to quit, according to congressional aides briefed on Margolis's private testimony to House and Senate investigators. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity.

Margolis's description of the emotional scene in his office sheds new light on divisions that were developing in the Justice Department's Washington headquarters as the Democratic-controlled Congress was demanding documents that might show White House involvement in the dismissals.

Goodling, 33, who was Gonzales's White House liaison, resigned April 6 and has invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions about her role in the firings. Her lawyers cited accusations by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty that Goodling and others had misled him about the firings as a basis for refusing to testify.



Read more: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a2E0Xyb65axc

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She better be stocking up on tissues :cry:

:evilgrin:

[Fresh_Start]

1. poor baby, tables turned and she was caught on the corrupt

side, wahhhhhhhhhhhh

[CottonBear]

2. Well, boo fucking hoo, Monica. You tried to subvert our democracy and now

you've been caught. You are an idiot and a moran and you deserve to have your career ruined.

[NMDemDist2]

4. wouldn't it be a sweet irony if a different "Monica" brought down the *co admin??

:rofl:

[sniffa]

7. ...

:rofl:

does she have a bLue dress?

[NMDemDist2]

22. no d00d, it's a RED dress!

:rofl:


:hi:

[Kikosexy2]

23. I guess...

Congress and White House officials should refrain from hiring girls named Monica...Monicas are bad luck to politicos...It sucks being a Monica (no pun intended, har, har)....

[frogcycle]

51. but this one is keeping her mouth closed...

[JDPriestly]

54. Don't assume that. You can never tell what is going on between

lawyers behind closed doors. We may never know what is really going on. That's how these things work.

[frogcycle]

58. sheesh - just trying to make a joke

yes, I expect big revelations from little monica eventually - she's just jockeying to avoid jail time

ok, so here's the alternate joke;

Well, but this one is a WHISTLE blower!

[JDPriestly]

59. Sorry. It's been a tough day. I have no sense of humor.

[frogcycle]

60. see update

I had to let my wife use the 'puter b4 finishing...

[rodeodance]

24. I am not holding my breath-----this WH has more tricks than anyone I have

every known!

[rodeodance]

25. umm. I am starting to like these secret 'closed door' meetings.

[CottonBear]

26. Oh, the irony!

:rofl:

[lisa58]

41. This crowd is always alluding to the second coming...

...they just didn't know it was the second coming of Monica.

[frylock]

45. well played!

:rofl:

[Roland99]

5. That's exactly what I was going to say. "Boo fucking hoo!"

1) Cry me a river.
2) Build a bridge.
3) Get over it!

[CottonBear]

27. Hey Monica! There's no crying in politics!

:rofl:

[blitzen]

3. cry me a river! n/t

[rurallib]

6. What other job can she get with a law degree from Regent U

Next job could be minimum wage. I think that is why she is crying.

[earthboundmisfit]

12. 3 minutes behind ya - but on the same wavelength

:toast:

[Fovea]

15. If she's passed the bar

she could always become a public defender.

[Jackpine Radical]

37. Yeah. A PD in Texas, maybe.

Where they sleep through the trials & nobody cares.

[Solly Mack]

Boo-fucking-hoo

[TroglodyteScholar]

14. My thought EXACTLY...

I bet she wasn't crying AT ALL before she realized she was busted.

March her out on display before the entire world, and let her tell her miserable little story.

[earthboundmisfit]

8. Hell yes, she's cryin' - she's not qualified to work in a REAL law firm

with that worthless "law degree" from Regent U...
I know I'm being cruel, but the thought of this dolt sobbing for 45 minutes gives me great joy! :evilgrin:

[Robbien]

48. An idiot ran our justice system

I am not happy she was crying. I am pissed.

She set up the Justice System to favor GOPers and to punish everyone who is not a GOPer. She was crying like a spoiled Britney Spears-like doll saying "I am one of the Elite GOPers, this isn't supposed to be happening to MEEEE."

All the good people working like crazy for the last six years trying to get a fair election and this sleaze was a main player in gaming the system to select GOPers.

[JDPriestly]

55. I disagree.

If she plays the political game, she will get a cushy job as assistant corporate counsel in some big right-wing company and be bored but financially comfortable enough the rest of her life.

That's the injustice of our legal system.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. I went to a very difficult law school but I can't find a job.

I have no sympathy for her.

Monica Lewinsky conducted herself with dignity. Her mistake was blabbing to Linda Tripp.

[frogcycle]

62. yeah, I guess Clinton got Tripped up

[Ian David]

9. Cry me a fucking river. n/t

[Oreo]

10. She's going to make for some fun testimony

Schadenfreude would have no equal than to watch her spill her guts and bring down the Bush Admin in between sobbing fits.

[VotingVet]

20. Alexander Butterfield where are you?

Monica, of course, lacks the integrity and honesty -- and ability, and education -- of Butterfield. But she could do for Bush what Alex did for Nixon.

And while no law firm (reputable or disreputable) would hire her, maybe she can write a sleezy tell-all memoir about Gonzalez's DOJ, naming names, describing encounters, abhoring salacious tristes which she recounts in sizzling detail. ;-)

[wryter2000]

30. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[aquart]

36. There is always a conservative think tank.

Or Regent could hire her to teach legal ethics.

[calimary]

43. Welcome to DU! Yep, Looks like our side gets a Monica, too, 'eh?

FIVE votes, BTW! Onward to the Greatest Page!

Poor baby. See Monica sing. Sing Monica sing. And then cry me another river.

[tblue37]

53. If she squeals, "she will never work in this town again."

But if she finds a way to take the fall and deflect the heat from the big boys, she will do a little time (or maybe even get pardoned) and then be set up for life. That's how this particular mob plays it.

[DeSwiss]

72. That is so true....

Few people give Alexander Butterfield the recognition he should have for bringing down Tricky Dick. I watched the hearings live on my old b & w TV back when Fred Thompson still had hair. It was riveting. He was a class act in the end. :evilgrin:

And I think you're right about there being another Monica memoir in the future. Maybe even a made-for-tv movie. ABC can run it during sweeps right before the 2008 election and try to spin it. Like they did with Path To 911.:puke:

Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[Rageneau]

11. This charge is absurd! Monica is a CHRISTIAN for goodness' sake.

Goodling graduated from a fundamentalist Christian college and a fundamentalist Christian law school (Pat Robertson's) and is herself a fundamentalist Christian.

And as we all know, fundamentalist Christians do not commit political crimes because it would make Jesus cry -- and violate the pledge to trust in God that the conservative Republicans insist we all endorse when we use money.

Why, to believe Goodling would intentionally violate the laws she was sworn to uphold is about as likely as doubting that George W. Bush's favorite political philosopher is Jesus Christ -- and we know from W's works that that can't be true.

[DeSwiss]

73. OMG!!! You're right....

...and if you make Jesus cry you have to go straight to hell! :evilgrin:

Oooo Monica, you're in troubbbbbllllleeeee.

But fortunately Monica, you can undo it all with...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. Dear Monica:

Welcome to the big time. Please note: corruption, unethical behavior and trampling on the constitution, while working at The Department of Justice means you were in The Big Time.

Fuck you very much. Now, go twist in the wind.

Me.

[KamaAina]

16. One, two, three,...

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Benhurst]

17. Quo vadis? Cheer up, Monica! If there is any justice left in this country, your days in

government are over; but a fascinating new life awaits you in a federal penitentiary.

Your calling may be to found an organization for born-agains in the stir, something like Jailbirds for Jesus.

[musette_sf]

18. i think Charles Colson has already cornered

(so to speak) that market.

[Mend]

19. Ms. Goodling will be spending more time with her family...Mr. Vibrator,

her husband, and her child, AAA Battery Goodling-Vibrator.

[catmandu57]

21. Breaks my heart I tells ya

If there is any justice and despite her immunity she'll still go to the slammer somewhere. What's the female version of Bubba?

[yellowcanine]

31. Yeah I have a hard time ginning up much sympathy for her also - she was paid the big bucks and she

screwed up. 45 minutes of sobbing? Feh. Sounds like a self-pity party to me more than anything. Sure am glad "the adults are in charge." When was the last time we heard that phrase?

[wryter2000]

28. I want to watch her cry in front of a Congressional committee

Boo-hoo-frikking-hoo.

[rateyes]

29. Your cheatin' heart will make you weep....

You'll cry and cry and try to sleep.
But, sleep won't come the whole night through.
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you!!
--Hank Williams


Didn't you learn, Monica, at your so-called Christian law school that "confession is good for the soul?"

Confess your sins, Monica!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

44. christianity = ethical behavior?

heh heh heh. How many times does the US population need to see the exact opposite, before they realize that that equation is false?

Oh, no. I just realized something. They put the same amount of belief in that odd, awkward, pointless, and inept act they call "prayer". And seeing how well prayer works, in the face of tornados, hurricanes, himacanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroid hits, red sea swarms, bee hive deaths, and more, the xtian right will never take that logical step and realize that their make believe faith based in christianity has nothing to do with ethical behavior, morality, honesty or truth. and it never has.

[soothsayer]

32. I guess she was aware that something unethical had transpired?

[Cass]

33. Crying because she was going to get caught, not because what she did was wrong.

She would be happy as a clam in her government job if her activities had never been discovered. :eyes:

[peacetalksforall]

34. All the right wing foundations/institutions are GROOMING SCHOOLS.

I think they need to add a course on what to do if you get caught to the curriculum. Obviously, they didn't. Arrogance runs rapid and rabid. Arrogance penetrataed. They are all starting to fall.

Do you wonder if her lawyers are from Regent U or if she has old timers for the old schools?

[MarinCoUSA]

35. Now the facts, Mme. Just the facts. And check the religion at the door

n/t

[GregW]

38. I guess this is one Monica that *is* going to be fucked by the WH

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Betsy Ross]

39. I had to come back an hour after reading this the first time.

It just put such a smile on my face. Worked the second time too. Just imagining her wailing in front of a Congressional panel makes me giggle.

[juno jones]

40. I hope she cries like 'Lucy'

"WHHAAAAAAAAAAAH!" It was all fine until she discovered she was going to be blamed.

[southern_belle]

42. Monica, actions have consequences!

:nopity:

[calimary]

50. Welcome to DU! It took me thousands of posts here to figure out

the no pity thingie. You got it in 89!

My hat - she is off.

And now we need you to help us REALIZE IMPEACHMENT!

[The Count]

46. Monica, Monica, Monica! (love saying "Bush's Monica)

I remember Poppy saying he only e-mails to friends to exchange Monica jokes...

[Hekate]

47. Didn't she KNOW what she was doing was illegal? Or did she think it just didn't APPLY to Bushies?

I really have quite a few questions that I hope will be answered while the House of Bush comes crashing down.

One is, does Regent U. educate its grads so poorly that they really can't distinguish what's unConstitutional, illegal, and unethical under United States law?

Do they think all they have to do is pass the bar and then just go on with whatever their radical clerics tell them is God's Holy Plan?

Do they think that with Bush in power and their cohorts seeded throughout the government, that somehow the laws of this NATION just don't apply to THEM? Because what they are doing is part of the Divine Plan?

Did Ms. Goodling just suddenly wake up one day and realize that she really will go to jail, and that her professional life is over? And that SHE is responsible for that debacle? That would certainly lead to fits of weeping.

I can't figure out if she was just a naive tool, or if she was a willing architect of destruction.

Whatever the case -- please, PLEASE make an example of her.

Hekate

[JDPriestly]

56. This administration sees itself as a thousand year Reich

After all, if God is on your side, you are assured "victory," aren't you? And don't grads of Christian colleges and law schools by definition have God on their sides.

[NastyRiffraff]

49. Awwwwwwww, poor baby

Cry me a river...in front of the Congressional committee.

I can't wait to see that. Time to buy popcorn stock! :popcorn:

[alfredo]

52. Maybe Regent should have taught ethics.

[ms liberty]

57. Real institutions of higher learning teach courses on this ethics stuff...

Apparently not a required course for Regent U. Oh, poor Monica!

[frogcycle]

63. Regents DOES teach ethics

they teach that jay-sus says don't smoke/don't chew/don't run with the girls that do - oh, and everybody in the world has to be born again and swear feality to pat robertson. The ethics part comes in where they teach that anything fucking goes as long as it furthers their mission to turn the world into babbling sycophants licking robertsons feet

[NastyRiffraff]

64. But here's the big story in that Bloomberg article:

Three hours before Goodling visited his fourth-floor office, Margolis told House and Senate investigators that Sampson dropped by to say he had information Margolis needed to know, one congressional aide said.

Margolis recounted that Sampson read his e-mail exchanges with White House aides that showed the decisions on firing the prosecutors were closely coordinated with members of the president's staff, the aide said.

(snip)

Margolis recalled that he was stunned to learn the extent of White House involvement in the dismissals, congressional aides said. Margolis testified that preparation for McNulty's Senate testimony -- which took place more than a month before his meetings with Goodling and Sampson -- was based on the assumption that the White House only became involved at the end of the firing process, the aide said.
(Emphasis mine)

Oopsie. Not sure if McNulty knew, but Sampson surely did. Which means perjury.

[maddezmom]

67. and another from the Globe: Rove helped Justice official on Gonzales testimony

Rove helped Justice official on Gonzales testimony
Saw deputy AG before House panel appearance
By James Rowley and Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg News | May 5, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The White House has confirmed that President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, helped prepare a senior Justice Department official for his testimony on the firing of US attorneys.

William Moschella, the principal deputy attorney general, told Congress on March 6 that the White House had limited involvement in the firings, a statement contradicted a week later by e-mails the Justice Department gave Congress.

Rove was among a group of presidential aides who met with Moschella the night before his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman. She took issue with a description of the meeting, first reported May 3 on Newsweek magazine's website, that White House officials gathered to "coach" Moschella.

"The way you're describing it in terms of coordinating some sort of message was not the case," Perino told reporters. White House officials were encouraging the Justice Department "to make sure that all the information got out quickly" to lawmakers "so that we could move on from that story," she said.

more:http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/05/rove_helped_justice_official_on_gonzales_testimony/

[Occulus]

65. I want this fragile stem under oath.

I want her mercilessly grilled.

I want her sobs ignored by the Committee.

I want answers from her under threat of Federal prison time.

SHE is a weak link; press her past her breaking point and do it under oath, in public, on the record. It would be pathetic to watch, but would result in leads as yet unknown.

[Gman]

66. Crying for her career and not

for because what she did was wrong. She has no remorse. Indict her.

[mod mom]

68. "firing the prosecutors were closely coordinated with members of the president's staff, the aide sai

This is definitely a smoking gun!

[PurityOfEssence]

69. Bummer, you Little Bo Peep opportunist; where's Jesus when you really need him?

This is disgusting. This person relied on her religious affiliation to get a fast-track to riches and power. If she didn't realize that what she was doing was EXTREMELY wrong, then she has no morals, and if she only caved when she found out that she might be found out, then she is a liar of the soul, regardless of whether she was willing to live up to her societal obligation and be a liar on record.

This is sickening. She's no victim, she's a selfish user caught in her own web of fantasy and privilege. The tears are tears of drama and narcissism.

At least it's good to know that one of the godbots groomed by the reactionaries is a wash-out. Her career is over, and well it should be: if one is going to suck up to power, one has to stand fast in front of the backlash; she's shown her true mettle, and it's simply not up to snuff.

On the other hand, as a bleeding-heart liberal, I feel sorry for someone so carefully coddled to be a dependable functionary for the lying forces of ugliness getting caught in a web of deceit and abandoned by those who used her so well. Religion is the cosmic trump card, and too many feel that if you just smile, sing and bat your eyes adoringly you are owed the keys to the earthly kingdom. This is pure crap and an extreme form of privilege: being "better" than others releases you from any social obligations and grants you untold riches and power.

Real reactionaries don't cry, they smile while others do.

[lovuian]

70. Anybody who has played with Bush & Co are going to get burned

and he walks away free

Underlings must know their place...they are expendable

[SharonRB]

71. Boo hoo hoo

Poor baby. Did someone call a waaaaambulance for her? I have no pity for her at all.