Monica's real motive?
The blogs Talk Left and Anonymous Liberal report that new Attorneygate e-mails turned over Friday to Congress by the U.S. Department of Justice include one in which central Pennsylvania's own Monica Goodling, a top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, gives an order to delete certain documents related to the Bush Administration's firings of eight U.S. Attorneys. That could put her at risk for an obstruction of justice indictment.
Goodling, a York Haven, Pa., native who graduated from Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., and was a summer lifeguard at the West Shore Country Club in Camp Hill, Pa., has already said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify before Congress. She said through her lawyer that she fears being a victim of a partisan witch hunt, which was rich coming from a Republican wingnut.
But perhaps, as the e-mail shows, her reasons for refusing to testify were a bit more pointed and practical. Stay tuned; we have barely scratched the surface of the Bush Administration horrors.