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Goodling Admits Other Political Hires
Here's a question that needs more of an answer. Under questioning from Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Goodling replied, "There were some other times when I was asked to help facilitate the placement of somebody that we knew to be Republican in career positions, and sometimes those were at the request of other people in the department."
There has been some more back and forth on this, but it's still not exactly clear what Goodling was referring to. Under questioning from Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Goodling talked about some "odd cases" or "bizarre cases" where political affiliation was taken into account in hiring certain DoJ employees. What was odd or bizarre about them?
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Comments (11)
Seitz wrote on May 23, 2007 12:35 PM:Wow, Ric Keller is a moron. Apparently they never said "Hey, let's commit obstruction of justice!", so that means they didn't fire Carol Lam to obstruct justice.
If I ever go on trial for murder, I want him on my jury.
Jane wrote on May 23, 2007 12:38 PM:I presume that the man to her right is her attorney Dowd. Catch the smirk on his face when Nadler runs out of time.
Oracle wrote on May 23, 2007 12:39 PM:If I ever go on trial I want the HJC to prosecute.
bullgooselooney wrote on May 23, 2007 12:43 PM:I asked in another thread why Goodling was granted immunity. It's been pointed out to me that she has been granted immunity from her testimony being used against her but evidence gathered by other means can (atrios). In that respect, I can understand her obfuscation. I don't respect it but I do understand.
C92 wrote on May 23, 2007 12:47 PM:Have a look at Gary Malphrus.
Malphrus used to be a low level political appointee at the White House Domestic Policy Council. $40,000 a year.
Gary today is a career immigration judge. $141,000 a year.
There's been a lot of talk about Goodling's involvement in appointing/vetting immigration judges. Gary is a case study.
Here's a law.com article on Gary and his appointment: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1150794314407
Interestingly, he was also part of the so-called "Brooks Brothers riot" in Florida in 2000: http://www.democrats.com/joel-kaplan
chisholm wrote on May 23, 2007 12:49 PM:How anticlimactic this all is. Clearly, the cross-administration game plan is to gum it all to death until Bush is out of office.
I had no idea that subpoenas carry no legal weight!
Cowboy wrote on May 23, 2007 12:57 PM:"Odd and bizarre" would be the proper adjectives to describe what Goodling did in applying prejudiced, non-professional standards in the evaluation of professional hires.
So, in at least one respect, her word choice makes some sense.
Texas Reader wrote on May 23, 2007 12:58 PM:Maybe what was "odd" or "bizarre" was that the people in question did not attend fourth/bottom tier law schools!
Folks, please keep commenting, those of us who are unable to watch this morning (well, afternoon for you east coasters) are anxious.
Gary wrote on May 23, 2007 1:02 PM:Is that load behind her Bob Shrum?
Herb wrote on May 23, 2007 3:43 PM:She sure has a matter-of-fact attitude -- maybe it's the immunity, maybe it's Valium. She staffed the JUSTICE DEPT. w/ political hacks and flunkies. She oughta be ashamed...
What's worse:
1) Prosecuting Democrats and fak vote-fraud cases to steal an election or two? Or,
2) Letting Bushies and other crony Republican criminals operate above the law while wasting everyone's (judges, grand-juries, etc.) time pursuing #1 above? Or,
3) Letting terr'ists and other violent criminals operate freely while pursuing #1 above?
When is the JUSTICE SYSTEM gonna be fixed? That's pretty important. And urgent!
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