Monica Goodling, Just 1 Of Over 150 "Little Pat Robertson's" Working For Bush

[DeSwiss]

http://web.archive.org/web/19991008153443/
Once again, another Monica appears to be about to bring a government down to its knees. This time at least its deserved.

SOURCE: Salon

Who's the Boss?
How Pat Robertson's law school is changing America.

By Dahlia Lithwick
Posted Saturday, April 7, 2007, at 6:52 AM ET

Monica Goodling has a problem. As senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House, Goodling no longer seems to know what the truth is. She must also be increasingly unclear about who her superiors are. This didn't used to be a problem for Goodling, now on indefinite leave from the DoJ. Everything was once very certain: Her boss's truth was always the same as God's truth. Her boss was always either God or one of His staffers.

This week, through counsel, Goodling again refused to testify about her role in the firings of several U.S. attorneys for what appear to be partisan reasons. Asserting her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, Goodling somehow felt she may be on the hook for criminal obstruction. But it was never clear whose truths she was protecting or even whose law seems to have tripped her up. She resigned abruptly Friday evening without explanation.

Goodling is an improbable character for a political scandal. She's the mirror opposite of that other Monica—the silly, saucy minx who felled Bill Clinton. A 1995 graduate of an evangelical Christian school, Messiah College, and a 1999 graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law (this seems to be her Web page), Goodling's chief claim to professional fame appears to have been loyalty to the president and to the process of reshaping the Justice Department in his image (and thus, His image). A former career official there told the Washington Post that Goodling "forced many very talented, career people out of main Justice so she could replace them with junior people that were either loyal to the administration or would score her some points." And as she rose at Justice, according to a former classmate, Goodling "developed a very positive reputation for people coming from Christian schools into Washington looking for employment in government."

more: http://www.slate.com/id/2163601/pagenum/all/#page_start

*** - Regent University's Motto: "Christian Leadership To Change the World".

Change = Destroy

[napi21]

1. I wonder how many people are polishing up their resumes for

the day we finally get rid of this corrupt, pretend religious,regime?

MAN< i see THOUSANDS of jobs opening up! I don't think any of us knowjust how many capable, goo, people have been replaced in every nook and crany of the Fed gov't over the last6 years! And we wonder why nothing seems to work????

[gristy]

2. The good news about all those little "Pat Robinsons" running around

They will be very easy to identify and to fire, come 2009 (or sooner, if FSM is willing). A bit of housecleaning, Democratic style.

[Supersedeas]

21. only to send the American Taliban into seclusion

[MnFats]

3. they did this at EVERY opportunity...

dumped competent people or, as in Iraq, appointed people to positions they were vastly unqualified for. Young hacks send to Iraq to manage the aftermath....incredibly stupid appointments to agencies like HOmeland Security....it never ends...they intended to recreate the USA as a one-party state and didn't who got hurt, or even if the country got hurt.

to say this is criminal negligence is a terrible understatement...I'll bet my next paycheck agaist Karl Rove's that in this case, the surface is barely scratched...

[Kagemusha]

4. We should not be ashamed to call it political negligence

Political change is the cure.

[grasswire]

5. Paul J. McNulty seems to be in the center of this.

It's time for him to turn over all communications. And a certain focus should be paid to Barbara Comstock, who was a close mentor to these ideologues at RNC opposition research team, and again at DoJ.

There is a HUGE scandal here, just below the surface. Time to sweep everything up, related or not.

[DeSwiss]

6. Uh yeah...

"There is a HUGE scandal here...

I agree!!! :thumbsup:

[Supersedeas]

15. i agree with more focus on Comstock as well

[pscot]

7. I don't believe it's self-incrimination she's worried about

She knows that if she testifies she will have to incriminate those who employed her. The committees need to immunize her and get her up there.

[Supersedeas]

22. loyalty to a figurehead trumps integrity and one's oath for these Party worshipers

[WCGreen]

8. BTW, Dahlia, that Silly, saucy minks just graduated from the

London School of Economics, one of the best schools in the world..

How dare you even mention her in the same article as a graduate of Pat Robertson's Lawyers are Us school...

Just kidding...

[Gman]

9. These people will be a problem for the next 30 - 40 years

as long as the GOP can take the WH again. This woman is the exact person John Dean referred to when he said to impeach and/or otherwise go after the lower level people, convict them and bar them from any future government service. We should have learned this lesson after Watergate. We should have learned this lesson after Iran-Contra. Now, we're going to make the same mistake and there is the biggest crop ever of these very young people that will poison government for the next up to 50 years.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

10. THESE PEOPLE ARE A CANCER IN OUR NATION

QED

[snappyturtle]

11. I heard that Regent University isn't accredited. Is that true?

It's no wonder this administration is poxed with incompetency. Question 2:(See below)Why haven't the career people forced out of DOJ positions complained about this?

...."A former career official there told the Washington Post that Goodling "forced many very talented, career people out of main Justice so she could replace them with junior people that were either loyal to the administration or would score her some points." And as she rose at Justice, according to a former classmate, Goodling "developed a very positive reputation for people coming from Christian schools into Washington looking for employment in government." "


Question 3: In previewing the above the sad smiley appeared. I do not know how I did this...is it some HTML thing?

[Vincardog]

14. The symbol for the sad smiley is : (

You wrote "Question 2: (See below)" but it came out "Question 2:(See below)"

[snappyturtle]

19. Dah! I couldn't see the forest for all those darn trees! Thanks. n/t

[onenote]

16. No, its not true

Regent's Law School is ABA accredited and its other schools also appear to be accredited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University

BTW, I find the reaction to the fact that 150 Regent grads work for the government to be rather overblown. First, the claim that 150 Regent U grads are working in the bush administration comes from Regent U itself, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. Second, depending on how you define the bush admin, its a drop in the bucket. There are over 1.5 million civilian employees in the executive branch of the government, with over a quarter million in DC alone. I'd bet that Regent isn't in the top 10 of universities with graduates "working" in the bush administration (heck, one-third of the bush cabinet attended Harvard either for undergrad or grad school).

[snappyturtle]

18. whew! that makes me feel better.....I think! n/t

[snappyturtle]

20. Maybe I'm carrying this too far but....

About Regent University
The nation's academic center for Christian thought and action

It's more than a description of Regent University, it's a way of life. As America's premier graduate school dedicated to combining quality education with biblical teachings, Regent continues to produce Christian leaders who will make a difference, who will change the world.

The above is in the "About Us" section from the university's site....sorry I'm still not impressed. Small,"new" school with an agenda,imho.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. Just so long as you keep tabs on them.

[Marrak]

13. Monica only answers to Jesus?

Her boss is a carpenter...

[Supersedeas]

17. and the oath to uphold the Constitution and the law of the US are superfilous?