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Kyle Sampson says that Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty misled Congress just because the topic of White House involvement didn't come up in the prep meetings. He's expected to say the same thing under oath tomorrow.
But McNulty apparently has a very different story. From The New York Observer:
...Mr. McNulty subsequently told [Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)] that he had been purposefully kept in the dark by senior staffers inside Mr. Gonzales’ inner circle. “McNulty told me he asked explicit questions: Did you do this, this, this? And he did not get affirmative answers from Sampson,” said Mr. Schumer.
No wonder Monica Goodling, who was also at those meetings, has taken the Fifth.
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JGabriel wrote on March 28, 2007 10:21 AM:While it seems clear that Goodling's concern about the McNulty prep meeting is one of the reasons she has decided to take the Fifth, I don't think we should assume that's the *only* reason.
Given the ever-expanding nature of the US Attorneys scandal, I hope that the Senate Judiciary Comittee requires Goodling to appear and take the Fifth question by question. I think that's the only way we'll get any idea of what else Goodling is concerned about concealing.
parrot wrote on March 28, 2007 12:14 PM:Uh...wow? Looks like McNulty is going to take some folks down or at least go down fighting. It sure does look like there is going to be perjury charges (lying under oath to Congress) for AG AG if he doesn't fire some people soon. Oh...wait...
Anonymous wrote on March 28, 2007 12:53 PM:" I think that's the only way we'll get any idea of what else Goodling is concerned about concealing."
It would be a purely PR exercise to do that. Once you take the fifth on one question, you have to do it an all subsequent questions. You wouldn't learn anything by asking further questions once she invoked it (though you would create some nasty-looking political theater.)
jan wrote on March 28, 2007 2:59 PM:For having gone to Christian institutions, they don't conduct their business in a very Christian manner, do they?
carol wrote on March 28, 2007 6:00 PM:Interesting tid bit on keith last night, gooding is a graduate of pat robertson's law school. perfect place to prepare to work in this administration.
Robert Earle wrote on March 29, 2007 4:11 PM:-c
Sampson testifies that nobody ever raised the question of how it might look to be firing Carol Lam after her conviction of Duke Cunningham, etc.
Repeatedly, in a room full of career lawyers and politicians - highly successful career lawyers and politicians - nobody ever said "Hey, firing Carol Lam: that might look bad, politically?" Even though Sampson himself says he immediately realized the analogous problem when he suggested canning Pat Fitzgerald.
NOBODY ?!? That is utter bullshit.
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