I'm Just a Liaison, It's Not Like I'm The Go-Between!

From what I'm reading, to believe Monica Goodling's testimony today, you have to believe that, in her position as the Justice Department liaison to the White House, she never talked to anyone in the White House.

By the way, this LA Times story about Goodling is enough to make you wonder how these people ever got into government at all, let alone the very top echelon of the DoJ:

How a 33-year-old graduate of a little-known law school that teaches courses on the philosophy of punishing and controlling "sin" became such a powerful figure in the Justice Department is a key question for congressional investigators looking into charges that the department has been turned into a political tool of the Republican Party [...]

Some of Goodling's former co-workers insist that she has been vilified.

Mark Corallo, a former Justice Department spokesman, said Goodling was trying to bring balance to the department, and he ridiculed those who criticized her for trying to screen potential hires based on their political beliefs. The civil rights division, he argued, has long been populated by "some of the most radical Democrats in the law."

Certainly 27 years of hiring by Republican Administrations and one Third Way Administration brought us radical Democrat after radical Democrat, right? And look at this:

After law school and a stint during the 2000 election doing opposition research for the GOP, Goodling landed in the public affairs office at the Justice Department. She did a six-month tour at the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., that was designed to give nonprosecutors a taste of the courtroom. In spring 2005, she became deputy director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys — a Justice Department arm that provides support, personnel and policy guidance to prosecutors around the country.

Her tenure at that office appears to have been crucial to facilitating the plan to fire U.S. attorneys. Former colleagues said that she prevailed upon the head of the office, Michael A. Battle, to replace two long-serving officials who probably would have viewed the firing of prosecutors without cause as highly suspicious, and helped install a fellow Regent law school graduate as a replacement.

She was tasked with getting rid of the naysayers. That was her whole raison d'etre.

Also, shorter Goodling's testimony, I dunno. And it was everyone's fault who's already resigned (Sampson, McNulty).

...she just said "I don't believe I intended to commit a crime" when I based my hiring practices on political affiliation. I don't believe I intended to commit a crime. Priceless.