Follow Monica M. Goodling and the Alberto R. Gonzales's trial. Monica Goodling was a senior counselor to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. She refused to testify in the trial.
New York Times: Gonzales Aide Suggested Replacements for Attorneys Excerpt: "A Justice Department e-mail released today shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for seven United States attorneys nearly a year before those prosecutors were fired, in contrast to testimony last month in which the aide said that no successors were considered before the firings. The e-mail written by D. Kyle Sampson, who resigned last month as... Read Full Story
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Goodling responded to allegations that she withheld information from McNulty in his Feb. 6 testimony to a Senate panel.
"I was surprised to learn that the deputy had blamed me for his incomplete or inaccurate information," Goodling said, adding that "I believe the deputy was not fully candid." Read Full Story
Monica Goodling suggested that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty blames her and others for not fully briefing him, leading to inaccurate testimony to Congress. Read Full Story
These are strange times indeed. A top aide to Attorney General Alberto "Gonzo" Gonzales will now plead the Fifth Amendment. The tactic, now pursued by Monica Goodling and essentially perfected by the White House, of stonewalling, misinforming, and generally being uncooperative with Capitol Hill will do little to boost confidence in the AG now that one of his chief aides and architects of the U.S attorney firings will zip up, as it were. "Look what happened to Libby," stated her attorney John... Read Full Story
Palast Exclusive: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom Excerpt: "How do I know? I have the caging lists... I have them because they are attached to the emails Rove insists can't be found. I have the emails. 500 of them --- sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden. Here's what you need to know --- and the Committee would have discovered, if only they'd asked: 'Caging' voters is a crime, a go-to-jail felony... Read Full Story
Poor Monica, she was just making up for another Monica's godless ways! (From Think Progress) In October 2006, Leslie Hagen, who was working as the liaison between the Justice Department and the U.S. attorneys’ committee on Native American issues, was informed that despite her “outstanding” job performance reviews, her contract would not be renewed . In April 2008, NPR reported that the Justice Department was investigating whether Hagen was fired after a rumor reached former Justice... Read Full Story
