I’ve said before that the Congressional committees should hand their investigations over to people who know what they’re doing. We got a lot of juicy tidbits from Monica yesterday, but the fact is that they didn’t lay a glove on Rove or the crime syndicate that runs this country. Kevin drum makes the point today:
Goodling looked up the political contribution history of applicants for career civil service positions? That’s interesting, isn’t it? I wonder if anyone else did that. Seems like this is something that deserved some followup.
Which it didn’t get, of course. I know that politicians are in love with their own voices, but it never ceases to amaze me that they insist on questioning witnesses like Goodling themselves. For starters, most of them are no good at it. For finishers, Perry Mason himself would have a hard time making headway if he were limited to five-minute bursts. Instead, why not block off a couple of hours and hand off the questioning to a tough, well-briefed staffer who knows how to cross examine a hostile witness? Then sit back and watch the show.
Greg Palast reveals something that went right over their heads:
This Monica revealed something hotter — much hotter — than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One….And the Committee members didn’t even know it.
Goodling testified that Gonzales’ Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin’s “involvement in ‘caging’ voters” in 2004.
Huh?? Tim Griffin? “Caging”???
The perplexed committee members hadn’t a clue — and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions, they would have found “the keys to the kingdom,” they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front of their perplexed faces.
The keys: the missing emails — and missing link — that could send Griffin and his boss, Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time.
Read the whole story. As Palast points out, at bottom the U.S. Attorney scandal is all about stealing elections. Monica hung one right out there for them and no one took a swing.
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