They need to hammer everything they have about Goodling and Sampson – Everything.

Ask about the authorization.
Ask about the possibly stamped signatures.
Ask why Cort’s memo was signed by Allen.

Ask about RNC email accounts.
Ask him if he has or had one.

They will not be able to corner him by asking him about the investigations of the USAs in this kind of hearing. It is a waste of time.

Ask him whether they were asked for advice about whether using RNC e-mail accounts were legal, and what the guidelines were. And whether they were asked for input as to guidelines. (Document requests here, too.)

Ask him whether anybody can produce any historic comparative analysis of what USA’s were productive and in what areas. (Document requests here, too.)

Ask him was any quantitative analysis utilised by anybody in the process of deciding which USAs to fire. What it the people trail for that?(Document requests here, too.)

Ask him where Samson got his input for his ‘list’ from, then where those people got their input from, ad terminuum (sp?). And what they were based on, and it’s documentary, for the documents and the documents sources. (Document requests here, too.)

He needs to be told that these questions represent evidentiary requests, and that he is expected to either produce the evidence, or he is expected to appoint some deputy who is empowered to produce the evidence.

By the way, what the hell does being a ‘facts witness’ mean, anyway? Has he just made this up?

Subpoena all e-mails sent among the principles involved in this: Goodling, Rove, Rove’s lapdogs, Gonzo, all his lapdogs, Domenici (and all in his office), and Heather Wilson (and all in her office). Also Cummins’ and Griffin’s emails to and from the Justice Department.

A) who decided Black had to go? (probably won’t get an answer)
B) did you see any documentation regarding his firing?

I just cannot stand it…. Could not walk fast enough while listening …. Had to restrain myself from throwing my XM radio. Lordy what a bunch of Repug AssHats….

Me too, I listened to this mornings session on my XM walker which I bought just to listen to C-SPAN how pathetic is that, lol.

What about suborning perjury? When Karl Rove coached witnesses, last March, from the DOJ, who were scheduled to testify before congress, he told them nothing about his own connections to the U.S. Attorney firings. Is suborning perjury always an active crime. Can it be passive? Like, suborning perjury by omission of facts, while coaching witnesses?

As far as obstruction goes, isn’t that Karl’s middle name? Karl “Obstruction of Justice” Rove?

Karl has always been stunned and appalled that Nixon didn’t have a big old bonfire with the “Watergate Tapes.” He might just burn the W.H. to the ground before he ever admits to a damn thing. He could always say that Iranians did it, and we would be off and running.

Or maybe not. Better think twice about messing with the truth, now Karl.

Adie @ 214

egregious @ 207

I hope that someone is gathering the questions from Marcy, Mary, and Hugh for uber fast transmittal to the committee?

SECOND THAT!

Someone? Anyone? Everyone?

With all due respect, I think people are delusional if they truly believe that any staffer, dem or repub, would ever spend an instant of their time on a blog. We are the rabble, they don’t associate with the likes of us. And it isn’t how things work anyway.

not true. lots of them are kids. believe me, they blog (here and elsewhere).

It’s as Jon Stewart said to Bill Moyers, Gonzo is up in front of the nation, coming across as an incompetent, well-meaning, amiable pinhead to protect Bush.

Is there no process available to congress to summarily hamstring or fire this cheeseball and crimp the camorra?

yup. impeachment

JEP@179-
Ya made my heart leap into my throat at the thought of TRex asking questions there

oh my. wouldnt that be fun.

“Men are filled, at last, with only lust and evil. There is no one, any more, in whom enlightening goodness prevails: no real wise man, no saint, no one uttering truth and standing by his sacred word. The seemingly holy brahmin is no better than the fool. Old people, destitute of the true wisdom of old age, try to behave like the young, and the young lack the candor of youth. … The will to rise to supreme heights has failed; the bonds of sympathy and love have dissolved; narrow egotism rules. Indistinguishable ninnies conglomerate to form a kind of sticky, unpalatable dough. When this calamity has befallen the once harmoniously ordered City of Man, the substance of the world-organism has deteriorated beyond salvage, and the universe is ripe for dissolution.”

What is lacking is the will to reveal the truth. There used to be people called philosophers, then there were scientists, now we have … what? … the U.S. Duma, subservient to the czar?

That said, confront the AG with the memo giving Sampson/Goodling hire/fire authority but requiring the Ag’s sign-off: walk him through how that all worked, with examples. If he “doesn’t recall” how it all worked, put him on sick leave and call him a cab.