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Attorney to the Attorneys of the Attorney General Pleads the Fifth
How fast will Gonzales make tracks? WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney to Attorney General's Attorneys will invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than answer lawmakers' questions about why eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons, her attorneys' attorney's attorney said Monday.
The decision by the attorney to the attorneys' to the Attorney General, Monica Goodling, sought to protect herself against self-incrimination in possible criminal incriminations and other potentially criminal percussing repercussions.
Goodling, 33, has taken leave from her job as attorney to the attorney general's attorneys and as the Justice Department's legal liaison to the White House's attorneys' attorney and the Attorney General.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Gonzales appeared on national television Monday trying to explain why he lied three days ago, this after a new release of e-mails showed that he had indeed set his pants on fire from a telephone wire during his last press conference.
"Nothing improper happened here," he said in an interview on NBC. "I've got nothing to hide in terms of what I've done. And we now want to reassure the American public that nothing improper happened here." When asked just who ‘we’ were, what ‘terms’ he had done, and if by ‘here’ he meant he hadn't burped or farted during the news conference that afternoon, he also took the Fifth, unaware that with the Patriot Act he had removed the Fifth Amendment from the U.S. Bill of Rights.
"Someday, when I leave this office," he said, "I am confident that I will leave with my integrity." The Attorney General did not respond when asked if he meant the ‘office’ where the press conference was being held that afternoon, or if tomorrow would qualify as ‘someday,’ and if he was sure he didn't mean to leave with his ‘Integra’ intact.
In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Goodling's attorney, John Duss, said that, "the potential for legal jeopardy for Goodling, attorney to the attorneys of the Attorney General, from even her mostly truthiful and accurate-like testimony under these circumstances is very real."
Leahy responded, "The American people are left to wonder what conduct is at the base of Ms. Goodling's concern that she may incriminate herself in connection with criminal charges if she appears before the committee under oath."
The panel's top Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, was standing atop a toilet in the fourth stall of the third-floor men's room and couldn't be reached for comment.
Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, chairman of the Big House Republican Caucus, called Goodling's decision "disturbing" and said it "reinforces individuals' worst thoughts about what may have been going on at the Justice Department." Lawmakers also want White House officials, including President Bush's political adviser, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, to testify. The President has resisted so far, agreeing only to let officials do their business on a newspaper in the corner, although Rove has suggested that Lewis "Scooter" Libby might testify again given that "his ass is already in a sling."
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