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Gonzales’ Senior Counselor Invokes the Fifth Amendment
By Lowell | March 27, 2007
The Washington Post reports today that “Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s senior counselor yesterday refused to testify in the Senate about her involvement in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.” Here’s some reaction in the progressive blogosphere, which certainly hasn’t “taken the fifth” on talking about this case!
*Taylor Marsh headlines here article, “Gonzo-gate Goes Gonzo,” writing that she thought that “only the mob did stuff like” taking the 5th. Marsh adds, “You know, gangstas trying to beat a rap.”
*AmericaBlog says that “This issue is no longer about politics, it’s now a criminal investigation of the Attorney General of the United States.”
*Oliver Willis asks, “Doesn’t That Imply a Crime Somewhere?”
*McJoan at Daily Kos asks, “Can the Bush supporters in the GOP and the apoligist punditry continue to claim there’s no there there?“
*Booman Tribune has an interesting, informative analysis of the fifth amendment and its applicability to this situation. Booman concludes that he doesn’t believe Goodling can plead the 5th, and asserts that “It’s only a matter of how far she is willing to go to destroy her career and her future in order to cover up for the actions of those in the White House (Rove? President Bush?) who are ultimately responsible for this blatant corruption of our justice system for their own, and their party’s, benefit.”
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