Goodling pushed out career officials.

The Los Angeles Times notes that Monica Goodling’s tenure at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys “appears to have been crucial to facilitating the plan to fire U.S. attorneys. Former colleagues said that she prevailed upon the head of the office, Michael A. Battle, to replace two long-serving officials who probably would have viewed the firing of prosecutors without cause as highly suspicious, and helped install a fellow Regent law school graduate as a replacement.”

Watch her hearing HERE or HERE.

UPDATE: Some liveblogging by FireDogLake and BLT.