Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' liaison with the White House will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer says.So one really does have to Ask, who Saddled Gonzales with a Known Red Communist Fellow Travellor...
"I have decided to follow by lawyer's advice and respectfully invoke my constitutional right," Monica Goodling, Gonzales' counsel and White House liaison, said in a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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John Dowd, the lawyer for Gonzales counsel Monica Goodling, who plans to take the Fifth, suggested in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., that the Democrat-led panel has laid what amounts to a perjury trap for his client.
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"The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real," Dowd said. Goodling was key to the Justice Department's political response to the growing controversy. She took a leave of absence last week.
[ cf Gonzales aide to invoke Fifth Amendment ]
Or would this be a Bad Time for the NeoConClownCarCrew to start doing the Vogue about which was their actual pitch on the right of privacy, and that one need not answer the question of the Commisariate Of State Security....
But GOSH, what in the world IS a 'perjury trap'??? I mean, let us assume that one were merely following orders, then IF Congress asks any hard questions, then one merely asserts the Divine Right Of The High Priesthood...
ah yes... and to think those Liberals were going to Clean Up The White House...
But you got to respect the Post-Surrealist World where 'say a truthful, and get arrested for committing one's Special Little Crime....'
Hey kids, is it time to get out the Old Group W Bench, where they put you if....