Posted on 03/27/2007 11:31:47 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 03/27/2007 11:40:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Can the GOP chain two good moves together? Two is the start of a streak, you know.
An intelligent woman with a backbone. Maybe someone can finally show the White House how to deal with these fishing exhibitions by the whacko Dems in Congress.
Stick to you Guns Monica, and Stand by the Fifth Amendment!
Get up on your hind legs, Monica...
It doesn't take much effort to realize that a Monica in the Bush administration is about 4,000 steps up the ladder of class/integrity than a Monica in the Clinton administration.
A college "committed to embracing an evangelical spirit."
STRING HER UP!!!
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She is just afraid of being Scootered. All folk called before that committee should claim the 5th unless granted full immunity. To do otherwise is to risk perjury traps and political crimes.
Don't let yourself be Scootered.
Good for her. Scooter Libby shoulda done the same when the feds started that witch hunt. Indeed, it's good advice anytime the cops start snooping around you. Clam up and demand a lawyer because many times it's not about truth and justice, it's about taking a scalp, any scalp, your scalp, for a trophy.
Wrong. Libby had defense lawyer Theodore Wells, widely considered the best courtroom attorney alive today. The legal team was headed up by Fred Thompson. The problem was not the advice he was getting, the problem was the jury. In a politically sensational trial the conservative side is going to loose 99% of the time with a DC jury pool. These same people elected Walter Mondale president, remember.
For a moment, I thought it was saying "Who is Monica Googling" and strangely I wanted to know.
Most immunity deals have a provision there is immunity for any TRUTHFUL testimony - given the witch hunt on Capitol Hill, the 5th is her best route, I think.
Goodling sounds like a verb to me, and the title of the thread made me chuckle.
Then I'm not sure what your point is. What should have they done?
from Slate.com:
Goodling, a 33-year-old graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law, could say something to Congress that's at odds with what McNulty or other DoJ-ers will say and thus expose herself to future charges if a future court doesn't believe her version. This is spin. You can't take the Fifth because of some hypothetical future risk of perjury or obstruction of justice or making false statements to Congress or the crime of concealing information from Congress "by any trick, scheme or device."
The rest of the article is at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2162774/
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