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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Ad
date: 2007-05-29 06:57:52
subject: Re: Goodling `crossed the line`

From: Ad 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> '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/AR20070523007
28_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.
>
>

How is it that none of your top law officers either know anything or if
they know they did something, can't differentiate between an internal dept
rule & what is called a "law"?

Were they chosen because they were incompetent or despite it?


Adam

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