Leahy: Goodling Testimony "Confirms Our Worst Fears"

[RedEarth]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) reacts to Goodling's testimony today:

“It is curious that yet another senior Justice Department official claims to have limited involvement in compiling the list that led to the firings of several well-performing federal prosecutors. What we have heard today seems to reinforce the mounting evidence that the White House was pulling the strings on this project to target certain prosecutors in different parts of the country.
“It is deeply troubling that the crisis of leadership at the Department allowed the White House to wield undue political influence over key law enforcement decisions and policies. It is unacceptable that a senior Justice Department official was allowed to screen career employees for political loyalty, and it confirms our worst fears about the unprecedented and improper reach of politics into the Department’s professional ranks.

“As Congress continues its oversight to pull back the curtain on the politicization of the Justice Department, it is abundantly clear that we must do all we can to get to the truth behind this matter and the role White House played in it.”

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[driver8]

1. They could save themselves a lot of time by serving KKKarl with

a subpoena.

Put that greasy fingered son of a bitch under oath...I'm sure he knows who was behind the firings!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I wish he had said something like:

"Over the next weeks and months, I look forward to sticking my foot up the asses of these lying chumps, so far, I might require amputation".

But the above will do for now.

[babylonsister]

3. Priceless!

:applause: :thumbsup:

[Phredicles]

4. Cool. But what'll he and his colleagues DO about it?

My gripe of course is less with Leahy than with the coleagues.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. They will subpoena KKKRove, KKKRove will say,"I'm not testifying", the Dems take it to court

and by the time the case works its way through the court system...the criminals will be vacationing in Paraguay.:(

[Phredicles]

11. If you're expecting the Democrats to take it to court, you're more of an

optimist than I am right now, I'm afraid.

[Pharaoh]

6. Without the Rule of Law

Democracy does not work.

But They seem to think the Law does not apply to them.

Fuck them.

[BrainGlutton]

7. But, what law have they broken?

Drafting the Justice Department into the administration's service for partisan political purposes SHOULD be illegal -- but AFAIK, it isn't.

[TahitiNut]

8. Wrong. It is. Hatch Act.

:shrug:

[robinlynne]

9. It certainly is.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. perjury, obstruction of justice, abuse of power.

And possible any number of civil service laws.