Has The Corporate Whore Media Received Their Goodling Talking Points Yet?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

I figure that the SPINSTERS at the WH have spent the afternoon trying to come up with reasons why it is just fine and dandy that Goodling is taking the 5th, and how that in no way should indicate a suspicion of guilt.

I realize that the only newscaster capable of reporting this story accurately and honestly is Keith Olbermann, but I'm wondering if the other "news" shows are attempting to minimize the significance of her refusing to testify, and I expect by tomorrow they'll be in a full blown defensive posture, with all the media SUCK UPS explaining to us how noble she is and how much pressure this poor, attacked woman is being unfairly subpoenaed by the big, bad Democratic congress.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. yep....I started a thread on Katie Couric saying....

that her testimony wouldn't be useful to the investigation, or something like that

her lawyer is putting out the meme that she can't get a fair hearing, so she won't testify at all!

those are the two I've heard so far

[EVDebs]

2. KO needs to get her Regent U. law degree info

and how she could redeem herself, rather than besmirch the Lord, by taking the 5th. Jesus would be balls-out telling the truth but NOT THIS BUSHCO OUTFIT. How fitting that she'll probably have an ACLU attorney.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. According to Howard Fineman, her lawyer is one of the HEAVIEST HITTERS

among DC defense lawyers

very big name

I think it's Dowd

[Gabi Hayes]

5. here

March 26 (Bloomberg) -- An aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will invoke her constitutional right to refuse to testify before a Senate panel investigating the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, her lawyer told the committee.

Monica Goodling, who helped coordinate the dismissals as the attorney general's White House liaison, will invoke her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. She will refuse to be interviewed by committee lawyers and decline an invitation to testify at a public hearing, said attorney John M. Dowd, citing the ``legally perilous'' environment of congressional probes.

[EVDebs]

6. Is Monica a Federalist Society member ? Is the REX84 agenda back ?

The exec orders letting Reagan and Ollie invoke martial law at the stroke of a pen were approved while Alito and Roberts were in DOJ and WH-Counsel giving the rubber stamp.

What is the GOP's plan for fascism in America ? coming to America wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross...

[EVDebs]

14. Dowd has history of FBI, S&L RICO info. Must know where the Abramoff CIA

GOP money went...Must keep public...from...finding...out...

[EVDebs]

11. Hmmm. Monica's lawyer is best known for FBI tax and organized crime work. RICO the WH ?

John Dowd

http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2063863_1?&channel=CCC

With his S&L investigation knowledge, he must have come across the 'Octopus' that Casolaro and Webb bumped into. Protecting the links to Cunningham et al

The question becomes:

"" Did U.S. intelligence agencies assist in funneling rivers of cash from suspect defense contractors into the campaign coffers of pro-war Republican lawmakers? Was U.S. taxpayer money secretly used to subvert American democracy? ""

Cunningham, Abramoff investigations lead here; was Gonzalez trying to keep this kind of investigation, an obstruction of justice, from carrying on under the current Congress' investigative powers ? Kinda like 'head 'em off at the pass' ?


FBI probes Watergate prostitution allegations
Infamous hotel used by defense contractor to entertain lawmakers?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

[Robbien]

3. She is taking the fifth because innocent people keep going to jail for lying

and the innocent people aren't really lying they just get messed up when testifying.

But the Dems are evil people.

And that's their story and they are sticking with it.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. bits and pieces on dowd

http://www.dowdreport.com/johndowd.html

John M. Dowd received his A.B. cum laude from St. Bernard College in 1963 and his J.D. from Emory University in 1965. He was a captain in the United States Marine Corps. He is a member of Who痴 Who in America, the District of Columbia Bar and numerous other associations. Presently, Mr. Dowd is a partner in the Washington office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., and has had both public and private sector experience in civil and criminal litigation. His specialty is the trial of complex cases.


John Dowd is noted for his successful representation of a U.S. district judge, a former U.S. Attorney, two U.S. senators, and the governor of Arizona.

At the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Dowd was a trial attorney in the Tax Division and chief of an Organized Crime Strike Force in the Criminal Division. At the request of the Attorney General, he also supervised an internal investigation of the FBI and the investigation of Congressman Daniel Flood of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Dowd represented a Nevada senator before the Department of Justice and the Senate Ethics Committee; an Air Force Colonel in the Iran Contra hearings; a senator before the Senate Ethics Committee; and a governor of Arizona in litigation with the Resolution Trust Corporation and in a fact-finding hearing before the House Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, inquiring into the failure of the savings and loan industry.

[EVDebs]

15. Keep ties to Abramoff GOP CIA funding out of news ...at all costs...nt

[global1]

8. This Lady Has Nothing To Worry About If She Tells The Truth.....

that should be the Dem response to her taking the 5th.

Much like they tell us don't worry about the Patriot Act - if you are doing nothing to invoke it.

Can't have it both ways - Repugs.

If she was subpoenaed by the Committee - could she still take the 5th? or would she be compelled to testify?

Maybe the committee should consider giving her immunity. Cut a deal with her.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. taking the fifth means she has a LOT to worry about if she tells the truth.

pleading the fifth means not having to participate in criminal prosecution against onesself, not giving evidence against onesself

[whistle]

13. "Monica Goodling, are you now, or have you ever been a Christian Fascist?"

[dicknbush]

10. A couple of things about this Goodling Chick...

1) Read the whole PDF on her statement about why she is not going to testify. It is very interesting reading. Basically she says that everyone has made up their minds about the USA's situation and she doesn't want to answer questions from people who are going to gang up on her.

Go here and download the entire letter.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002798.php

Secondly she is a graduate of Regent University. There basic reason for being is to inject Christers inot government at lower levels ,like Goodling is positioned in so that the Christers can infiltrate the government ad get their agneda enmeshed into public policy.

You can go here for the low down:

http://www.regent.edu/

[EVDebs]

12. Federalist Society members are already into the REX84martial law stuff

Christo-fascism ? Chris Hedges was right after all.

[Lautremont]

16. She'd do better if one of the partners in this firm represented her instead.

I'm thinking the one called Gump. Life, your honor? Box of chocolates.