The day after hearing about Monica Goodling's declaration that she will take the Fifth in testimony before a Senate commitee, my sense of amazement is still growing.
Perhaps the most amazing aspect is that a top Justice Department official is citing the Libby trial as justification for her belief that our justice system cannot be trusted to give her a fair trial on perjury charges.
Putting aside for a moment that a witness cannot plead the fifth in order to avoid perjury, this explanation also tries to prevent her from testifying under immunity since immunity cannot protect you from commiting perjury while testifying under immunity.
The whole concept makes my head spin and is so flagrantly stupid and transparent that I wonder what they are really trying to accomplish. This on top of her immediate personal leave from her job as this scandal was breaking as well as all the frantic fumbling and blustering from the White House and the Justice Department implies that what is still being covered up is big.
My personal guess is that Gonzales was intentionally left out of the loop on the whole Attorney turnover because it was a political operation run by Karl Rove. Its a copy of the pattern of Bush looking the other way for his entire political career while Rove did the dirty work.
