Monica Goodling is scheduled to testify today before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings of U. S. Attorneys, under an offer of immunity, thereby blunting her attempt to invoke the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
"All I ever wanted to do was serve this president, this administration, this department," Goodling tearfully told a senior Justice official shortly before she quit, according to a transcript of his interview released by the House committee last night.
The reality is that Goodling had no business whatsoever being put in a high level position in the Justice Department. She is an inexperienced political hack from Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School, a 4th tier Christianist law school, that historically has the worse failure rate on the Virginia Bar Exam of any law school in the state. Here’s the Washington Post’s description of Goodling:
"All I ever wanted to do was serve this president, this administration, this department," Goodling tearfully told a senior Justice official shortly before she quit, according to a transcript of his interview released by the House committee last night.
The reality is that Goodling had no business whatsoever being put in a high level position in the Justice Department. She is an inexperienced political hack from Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School, a 4th tier Christianist law school, that historically has the worse failure rate on the Virginia Bar Exam of any law school in the state. Here’s the Washington Post’s description of Goodling:
A 1999 graduate of Regent University law school in Virginia Beach with six months of prosecutorial experience, Goodling was among a small coterie of young aides to Gonzales who were remarkable for their inexperience and autonomy in deciding the fates of seasoned Justice Department lawyers, according to current and former officials who worked with the group.
2004, Goodling spent six months in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, in a special program designed to give Justice employees and other government lawyers a chance to gain courtroom experience. Reviews of her tenure there are mixed. Three current or former Justice officials said she quickly developed a reputation for having an antagonistic and sharply ideological style.
Sadly, the Bush administration has hired 150 Regent Law Law graduates, obviously putting extremist religious and/or political ideology ahead of competence. It is truly frightening what has happened in this country to religious freedom and civil rights under Chimperator Bush and his administration.
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