From Salon ...
Dont it make your brown eyes blue?
All I ever wanted to do was serve this president and
this administration and this department. -- Regent
University Law School graduate and Justice Department
White House liaison Monica Goodling in a teary
conversation with Associate Attorney General David
Margolis on March 8, 2007.
In an interview released by the House Judiciary
Committee yesterday in advance of Goodlings immunized
testimony today, Margolis says Goodling came to his
office on the evening of March 8 -- about a month
before she resigned from the Justice Department -- and
asked if Kyle Sampson had talked with him. When
Margolis said yes, Goodling proceeded to bawl her eyes
out. How long did the crying last? It seemed like
forever, Margolis says, but it was probably only 30 or
45 minutes.
What had Goodling so upset? Could it have been her
involvement in the firing of U.S. attorneys last year?
Her failure to brief some of her colleagues on just
how involved the White House was? Her efforts -- for
which shes now under investigation -- to block a local
U.S. attorney from hiring a line prosecutor because
she thought he was too liberal?
Well, an inquisitive or responsible or even mildly
sympathetic man might have asked Goodling what was on
her mind. But in Alberto Gonzales Justice Department,
Margolis figured it was better not to ask. I wasnt
anxious to hear so I didnt probe, Margolis tells a
House investigator. I -- I changed the subject to give
her -- to try to make her laugh, which didnt work, and
to give her some personal advice, which she didnt
take.
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