DOJ investigates whether Goodling forced out gay attorney.
DOJ investigates whether Goodling forced out gay attorney.
NPR reports that the Justice Department Inspector General is investigating whether Monica Goodling, a key administration figure in the U.S. Attorney scandal, dismissed a career DOJ attorney “because of rumors that she is a lesbian“:
Justice Department e-mails obtained by NPR show that Gonzales’s senior counsel Monica Goodling had a particular interest in Hagen’s duties. A few months before Hagen was let go, according to one e-mail, Goodling removed part of Hagen’s job portfolio — the part dealing with child exploitation and abuse.
DOJ officials “said they came away with the impression that the Attorney General’s office decided not to renew Leslie Hagen’s contract because of the talk about her sexual orientation,” despite her receiving strong performance reviews.
(HT: TPM Muckraker)
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In the normal course of events I have come to expect, over the years, that an investigation leads to a decision of assumed malfeance or no undue actions. This leads, in turn, to charges or no charges, which then evolves to a trial. The verdict at trial is Guilty or Not Guilty. If the decision is Guilty the wrongdoer in sentenced to some penalty. It seems the clock has been stopped over the last seven years. Everybody investigates the hell out of everybody else but it just stops there. The only time it worked anywhere normal was when Scooter got caught with a flat tire. But that only lasted long enough for King George the Dumb to blow on his valve stem. January 21, 2009 can’t get here soon enough.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 pmGasp, what would Condi and her female mortgage-mate say?
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pmManBearPig
and I heard that gas clouds were gathering around uranus too, so?
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pmhttp://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20080402_12_OKLAH57076
How can this be happening in America? Who has given these hate mongers permission to speak of thier hate in public without consequences?
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pmHow Iranian!
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 pmCloset Fag Hag for Jebus.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pmWhat is it with these people and gayness? No really what is it!
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pmI’ll bet Monica Goodling could make Jeff Gannon talk.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pmOf course they fired a gay. Shit they fired anyone that wasn’t a loyal bush bootlicker. What chance did a lesbian have?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pmOh, good, I haven’t missed The Performance Artist Known as Daryll™. Do I still have time to make popcorn?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pmSteve Benen has an expanded report on this.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15092.html
And my comment: And we, the people, are left with the remnants of the Regents University crowd to take care of legal issues which should be of and for the people. More like the bottom tier being against all the people.
And these are people who are not easily fired so getting rid of them will be more difficult than some appointee. This leaves us with these low hanging fruit from schools such as Regents in the DoJ at varying levels for god only knows how long.
Bush wants to ensure that government can’t function so that everything that government should do can’t be done because they have loyal gooper idiots running around doing what they do best; nothing for us and everything against us.
As if I needed additional reasons to hate this administration.
The only time I care who is screwing whom is when it is *I* who is getting boned up the a$$ from a government who doesn’t give two $hits about me…and they do it without any friggin’ KY.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pmManBearPig Says:
This must be what Bush was talking about when he warned us of the dangers of “human-animal hybrids“.
I can see what he was worried about. They’re disgusting. And none too bright.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:20 pmAnd another interesting take on this, is it perhaps because of what she was working on and her sexual orientation was a convenient cover? Remember Carol Lamb? Again, from Carpetbagger:
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
This is against the law and should be prosecuted? Anybody taking bets?
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 pmSo,Good(ling) Monica is afraid of big bad lesbians, so scary Monica. I wonder what Jesus would do, Monica? After all this time I though DOJ was after all those terrorists. It seems like Good Monica shivers at the vision of two girls kissing. PS–msmbc hired Good Monica for her expert commentary ????
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 pmOBAMA 08
She vas only followink orders!
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 am“DOJ investigates…”
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 amHa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
No doubt the Department of Jesus will bury this one too.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am