From: "Rich Gauszka" 

'she "crossed the line" by using political criteria in hiring a wide array
of career professionals at Justice, including looking up political
donations by some applicants.'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052300728
_pf.html

A former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales leveled
serious new accusations against him and his deputy yesterday, describing an
"uncomfortable" attempt by Gonzales to discuss the firings of
U.S. attorneys as Congress and the Justice Department were intensifying
their investigations of the issue.

Monica M. Goodling, who resigned last month as Gonzales's senior counselor
and White House liaison, also told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday
that she "crossed the line" by using political criteria in hiring
a wide array of career professionals at Justice, including looking up
political donations by some applicants.

In a day-long hearing that afforded her immunity from prosecution, Goodling
minimized her role in the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys last
year and joined a long line of Justice officials who say they were not
responsible for adding names to the lists of those to be dismissed.

But Goodling's appearance also opened broad new avenues of inquiry for
congressional Democrats, who think Gonzales has presided over intensifying
political meddling at the Justice Department. It also provided fresh
evidence of the deepening rifts between current and former Justice
officials, who have increasingly turned on one another since the prosecutor
firings.

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