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Title: USAgate scoop: Justice aide to TAKE THE FIFTH!
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/26/154625/894
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Author: "EZ writer"
Post Date: 2007-03-26 15:58:12 by aristeides
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Views: 298
Comments: 28
USAgate scoop: Justice aide to TAKE THE FIFTH! by EZ writer [Subscribe] Breaking: AP-APNEWSALERT holy crap! Is someone facing a perjury rap if they testify? WOW! What next? Stay tuned ... "The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real," said the lawyer, John Dowd. Yup. sounds to me like Ms. Gooding fears a perjury rap, perhaps from previous testimony to Congress?
Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 12:47:44 PM PDT (AP) - WASHINGTON _ A Justice Department aide involved in the prosecutor firings will refuse to answer questions at a Senate hearing, citing protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer says.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday.
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#6. To: aristeides (#0)
Monica Goodling Well well.
Back row from left to right: Loretta Osei-Gray (Undergrad '03), Ricky Welborn (GOV '00), Christy Reise, Kyle Reise (BUS '99), Brian Geno (LAW '87) Front row from left to right: Andrew McDonald (GOV '04), Esther McDonald, Monica Goodling (LAW '99), Richard Parker (GOV '98) The committee approved subpoena power for key Justice Department officials involved in the firings: Michael Elston, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Bill Mercer and Mike Battle. Mr. Sampson, Mr. Gonzales' chief of staff, quit this week.Mr. Elston is staff chief to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Mr. Mercer is associate attorney general. Ms. Goodling is Mr. Gonzales' senior counsel and White House liaison, and Mr. Battle is the departing director of the office that oversees all 93 U.S. attorneys.
GOP lawyers met with Gonzales aide last summer By The Associated Press Article Launched: 03/15/2007 08:34:53 AM MDT ALBUQUERQUE — Two New Mexico lawyers with strong ties to the state Republican Party met last summer with a top aide to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and complained about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias. Mickey Barnett on Wednesday confirmed he and fellow Albuquerque attorney Pat Rogers met June 21 with Monica Goodling, Gonzales' senior counsel in Washington, D.C., to vent frustrations about a New Mexico voter fraud investigation. continued...
Following the E-Mails in the U.S. Attorney Dismissals Justice Department Official Wrote to WH Staffer's RNC E-Mail Account ...Although e-mails released on Tuesday show Sampson working hand in hand with the White House counsel's office, several pages of e-mails show Justice Department officials dealing with White House political staff on the U.S. attorneys issue. These include communications between Monica Goodling, the Justice Department- White House liaison and senior counselor to Gonzales, and Scott Jennings, the deputy political director at the White House. The e-mails show that Jennings apparently used his Republican National Committee e-mail account to communicate with Justice Department officials. continued...
permalink: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/20/decoding-justice-documents/trackback/ March 20, 2007 Decoding Justice Documents In the thousands of documents released in Congress’s investigation of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year, some are easy to understand — and others use code that even recipients don’t understand. On Sept. 13, 2006, a White House aide sent an email asking Justice Department and White House officials to clear Tim Griffin (a former assistant to White House aide Karl Rove and the replacement for the fired U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark.) “for permanent status … Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General DJES.” One recipient, Monica Goodling, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s senior counsel and one of the key Justice Department officials involved in the firings, wrote back “Thank you!” Another, Luis A. Reyes, a White House official, then wrote to Goodling: “Dumb question. Remind me what DJES is? Where will Tim go?” Goodling’s reply: “I have no idea what it stands for, but he’s Counselor to the CRIM AAG technically, but will be detailed to the USAO in Arkansas after EOD’ing.” Got it?
#12. To: All (#10)
...So maybe Hertling didn't ask Sampson (the man at the department supposedly in charge of the purge) or Sampson lied to him. But there's somebody else who knew: Monica Goodling, the Justice Department's liaison to the White House. The emails show Goodling going back and forth with Sampson and Rove's deputy Scott Jennings about how to install Griffin without kicking up too much fuss. In an August 18th email (which has Jennings cc'ed), Goodling writes that they have a "senator prob" with Griffin's possible nomination -- meaning that one of Arkansas' senators had raised an objection to Griffin's nomination. That's followed by a paragraph brainstorming how to get Griffin in anyway. Goodling's job at the Justice Department was to communicate with the White House -- and the emails show that Sampson even emailed drafts of correspondence to Goodling before sending it on to the White House...
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#7. To: All (#6)
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http://www.regent.edu/alumni/chapters/washington_dc/DCPicnicPhotos.htm
#8. To: All (#7)
http://www.lcsun-news.com/breakingnews/ci_5442678
#9. To: All (#8)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2952653&page=1
#10. To: All (#9)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/20/decoding-justice-documents
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