Saturday, April 14, 2007

Fingerprints on Goodling...


<---Under the reasons for firing David Iglesias, Goodling writes: "Domenici says he doesn't move cases."
Here's another new document from the ones released today. And it's a good one.
They are two pages of handwritten notes, apparently taken by Monica Goodling -- the now former Justice Department official who's pled the Fifth. The notes appear to have emerged from a brainstorming session on justifications for firing the U.S. attorneys in early February of this year.
At the top of the first page, for instance, is a one word question: "Reasons?"
The session resulted in a chart showing the different supposed deficiencies with each U.S. attorney. In the documents produced, the previous and following documents are emails from Monica Goodling forwarding versions of the charts to her DoJ colleagues. "Here is the chart the [Deputy Attorney General] mentioned wanting to brief and leave behind. Kyle has reviewed it," she writes in one February 12, 2007 email. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was preparing to meet privately with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
One of the justifications didn't make it into the chart, however.

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