Goodling may be offered immunity.
By on Apr 12th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Goodling may be offered immunity.
“The House Judiciary Committee is ’strongly considering’ offering former DoJ official Monica Goodling immunity in exchange for her testimony in the U.S. Attorney matter, according to one very solid congressional source. Goodling had preemptively asserted her Fifth Amendment rights and has declined to be interviewed or to testify before Congress. … Per Pete Williams, Goodling’s attorney, John Dowd, has no comment on the immunity question.”
UPDATE: Time magazine has a similar report.
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See what can happen when Congress puts in a full work week?
April 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pmYEEEE HAAAAA!
Um, they better be a little cagier about immunity than Fitzgerald was when he gave immunity to treasonous Ari Fleischer, who proceeded to just stick to his lie.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:14 pmUm, they better be cagier offering immunity than Fitzgerald was…treasonous Ari Fleischer got immunity and then flipped them the bird and stuck to his lies.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:15 pmThis woman is no american patriot, that’s for sure but it’s now becoming crystal clear that she’s complicit in all of this – and her testimony will indict Gonzales and the Bush White House. Whatever works in order to get the truth – let’s go on this already!
April 12th, 2007 at 7:20 pmWith her supposed immunity, it might be a good idea for her to get another identity as well following this.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:20 pmi agree with #2. She’ll just lie through her teeth.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:25 pmUsually, immunity offers are dependent upon the veracity of the testimony. If she’s caught in a lie, they can pop her for obstruction of justice.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:29 pmIf Goodling lies under oath, which she undoubtedly will do, then she can sit in jail with Scooter.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:30 pmShe will not get away with perjury because there’s a lot more known facts that she realizes people know.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:30 pmIf Goodling lies, she will get popped, Bluedog.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:31 pmIf they allow Goodling immunity, there needs to be definite terms she has to follow. If she fails to follow them, she loses her immunity — and god will be so much more disappointed in her.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:31 pmShe will lie and have the “failed memory” syndrome which is recently affecting everyone affiliated with the WH.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:32 pmFleischer and Libby are “hardcore”; the young Goodling is not. Expect her to be “disappeared” in some manner before she can say anything.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pmThis bill “Reid-Feingold measure†to end the Iraq war will be the one VOTE that will win the Presidential Election. Why?
As time moves forward, more and more Americans will be “repulsed†by the blatant troop abuse.
Between the wounded, the deaths, no training, no rest, no proper equipment, extensions never ending. Additionally, the clear end result will be depleting the military forces.
And then add the icing on the cake; personal financial demise that ALL Americans have felt over the past 6 years, and continuing on with no end.
Would you VOTE for a Presidential candidate that clearly knows that commodities are bleeding citizens dry directly because of the war, but chooses to DO NOTHING to end the war?
As American citizens ask yourself and or your neighbor to look back at his/her own expenses over the past 6 years.
Basic Expenses that have gone up more than 100 percent.
Electricity
Gasoline
Home Heating Oil
Home Propane Gas Bill
Weekly Groceries X 52 weeks
Health Insurance Prem.
Dental Insurance Prem.
Prescription Co-Pays
Dog and Cat Food
Cable Bill
Land Telephone Bill
Clothing Dry Cleaning Bill
Car Maintenance Bills
All wars produce a back end tax on all commodity items, just like the ones listed above. The simply name is called extreme inflation.
All Senators and Presidential candidates that don’t support the “Reid-Feingold†bill will be tossed like dirty gum wrappers.
Most VOTING Americans remember the extreme inflation during the Vietnam venue time.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:38 pmCitizens Wake Up Call
Goody Goodling….wave to us Goody…Gooody Goodling.
Come one Monica, America needs you to do what is right for America, not what is right for Karl Rove.
-GSD
April 12th, 2007 at 7:43 pmShe’s still around.? I thought the reich flew her outta the country so she coulden’t speak..Ya know like a vacation at pappa bush foreign country.. I wonder if that’s where BenLauden is vacationing these day’s…The Crawfor ranch has got to be so blasee….LOL..Blessings
April 12th, 2007 at 7:44 pmThis sounds like total BS. Might as well have her testify without being under oath and without transcripts.
How can someone take the fifth without first being asked a question? We need to FORCE her to testify under oath then make a decision on immunity based on which questions she pleads the 5th on.
She’ll probably still lie or refuse to answer.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:45 pmFor more on Goodling, the RNC email scam as well as the latest news, email archives, hearings, legal filings and other essential documents on the Bush DOJ prosecutor firings, see:
April 12th, 2007 at 7:54 pm“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”
Knowing the history of the BushMafia (TM),
they better be providing security for Ms. Goodling.
Bush bought 150000+ acres in Paraguay a little while ago.
MAYBE he wants mores brush to cut.
Hmmm…..
April 12th, 2007 at 8:27 pmMake her declare the 5th over and over and over on TV in Congress.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:38 pmAlong with not being an American patriot, Monica Goodling is NOT a Christian. If she were, she would have been down at Congress testifying long ago.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:15 pmso who’s going to guarantee that , once offered immunity,
this little republican operatchi(c)k will say anything worthy of immunity.
i think they are being played for a sucker.
this lady is no pushover; she is a hard-core right wing operator.
i can’t imagine she would spill the beans on the doj-white house higher ups.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:20 pmYou cannot preemptively invoke the fifth amendment.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:37 pmGIVE HER IMMUNITY!!! SHE IS A TWO-BIT HACK. LET HER LIE HERSELF INTO HER GRAVE (IN WHICH CASE SHE’S TOAST AND IMMUNITY DOESN’T HOLD) OR TURN IN THE REAL PERPETRATORS!
April 12th, 2007 at 11:21 pmCan you take the fifth while being waterboarded?
April 12th, 2007 at 11:27 pmComment by CitizenX — April 12, 2007 @ 10:37 pm
I was wondering that myself. Wouldn’t she be in contempt of Congress if asked to state her name and she invoked the 5th?
April 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pmComment by circusfifthfloor — April 12, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
In fifths, I prefer Jack Daniels over water.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:33 pmBush bought 150000+ acres in Paraguay a little while ago.
MAYBE he wants mores brush to cut.
Hmmm…..
Comment by Mr. Bush Goes To Hell #19
That land belongs to the American taxpayers…
…hopefully we’ll confiscate it after we’ve:
IMPEACHED
INCARCERATED
and IMPOVERISHED
…his demonic a*s…
April 12th, 2007 at 11:43 pmThe email storm is brewing.
Karl Rove is a Blackberry junkie. Not one email from him has been turned over. Wassup Karl? Are you hiding something? Why? Just for the sake of hiding it? You’re such an innocent kidder . . .
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002999.php
Senator Leahy says you’re lying Karl. Karl lie? Never! Mr. Karl “Caught Red Handed Lying About Having Nothing To Do With Outing Our CIA Agent Plame” Rove would never lie. Never. And he has built up such credibility with his sweet-nothing campaign tactics over the years, like claiming McCain fathered an illegitimate – horror of horrors – black child, or McCain doesn’t support the military, or McCain is somehow connected to – double horror of horros – gay people. All of this is to say nothing of Karl’s leading hand in the current scandal du jour. In the purge of Justice Karl just sat right back while the White House tried to shove Harriet Myers over the cliff for him in a brilliant sacrifice. Too bad those bad emails from your minions surfaced Karl. They were so stupid. Good thing you are so much smarter than that and will never give up your emails to let the truth out. Thank Goodness America is safe from the truth with people like you at the helm running our Country. Nothing to worry, right Karl? Nothing to look at here, right?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-12-fired-prosecutors_N.htm
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_asks_government_agencies_to_preserve_0412.html
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/you-just-cant-find-decent-minions-any-more/
And now innocent Ms. Monica “I’m A Top Justice Department Official Taking My Prophylactic 5th Amendment” Goodling is back in the spotlight. Looks like she will be lucky enough so that Congress will grant her immunity. She must be so relieved now that she can tell the truth without any possible harm whatsoever coming to her (right!). All she has to do is tell the truth. If she lies of course, she’s going right to jail with Scooter. But of course she wouldn’t lie now. Would she? I mean these Republicans don’t lie, right? And she comes from such an honest department called Justice. Either the Attorney General Gonzales himself or Goodling’s immediate superior Sampson (or more likely both) lied right through their teeth in smearing those good prosecutors who they fired because they wouldn’t witchhunt Democrats. They’re such an honest nice bunch.
Oh the storm is brewing. The clouds are gathering for you. The Republicans who are sending our boys to die to enforce the Rule of Law in Iraq may just find the Rule of Law actually applies to them at home. They may just find there are some consequences for them for getting caught breaking the law . . .
What a surprise that the most incompetent lying bunch of Republicans ever to run our country also just happen to be a bunch of lawbreakers. They are so incompetent they may just find that the law they thought they controlled actually catches up with them.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:45 pmShe should definitely have to be taking a polygraph test while she is testifying. No more of this “gee, I can’t remember” crap.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:21 amAnd if she is caught in a lie, she should lose immunity and immediately go to jail, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.
Forget the immunity, just waterboard her to get the truth > lol.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:27 amThey better put her in protective custody, or I somehow forsee her accidentally driving in front of a train while full of sleeping pills, or falling off of a 9th floor balcony.
April 13th, 2007 at 1:35 amgive her immunity. shes protecting other people, and if the perjures herself, the immunity wont help her.
April 14th, 2007 at 5:55 am