How do senior Justice Department officials end up giving false testimony to Congress? Well, it’s complicated, Goodling testified. But first you start answering one question, then you get another question, and then you get another and then all of a sudden people were answering questions that they didn’t have answers for. “It just snowballed into a not good situation.”
Goodling also testified here under questioning from Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) about making sure that Republicans were hired in certain career Justice Department positions, including detail positions in main Justice and immigration judges. But there was nothing nefarious in this, she said, she just wanted to make sure that people on the leadership team were “on the same page in terms of philosophy.” She also said that there were other, “bizarre cases.” It’s not clear what she was talking about.
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