From: "Mark" 

I'm sure there is no "wrongdoing" but there is sure a whole
helluva a lot of doing things wrong! Sheesh!!! 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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> Obviously this is just an academic exercise as the Bush administration is
> incapable of wrongdoing 
>
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/26/fired.attorneys/index.html?eref=rss_to
pstories
>
> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Justice Department official will refuse to answer
> questions during a Senate committee hearing on the firing of eight U.S.
> attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself,
> her lawyer said Monday.
>
> In a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling's
> lawyer said she would not testify because senators have already decided
> that wrongdoing occurred.
>
> "The public record is clear that certain members of the Senate Judiciary
> Committee have already reached conclusions about the matter under
> investigation and the veracity of the testimony provided by the Justice
> Department to date," John Dowd, Goodling's lawyer, said in a letter to the
> committee's chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont.
>
> The letter said Goodling learned that a senior Justice Department official
> blamed her and other Justice Department officials for any misleading
> statements he had made to one of the Democratic senators who has pushed
> for answers about the firings, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York.
>
> Goodling is a senior counsel and White House liaison to Gonzales. She is
> taking a leave of absence from the department.
>
> The committee has subpoenaed Goodling to testify Thursday. Democratic and
> Republican senators have raised questions about the firings, which e-mail
> released by the Justice Department suggests may have been done for
> political reasons.

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