What I love most about watching Republicans in distress is how they start feeding on each other like starving rats, especialy when one of the rats is about to talk to a committee that is invesitgating them.
Let the feeding begin.
The Justice Department is investigating whether its former White House liaison used political affiliation in deciding who to hire as entry-level prosecutors in U.S. attorneys' offices around the country, The Associated Press has learned.
Doing so is a violation of federal law.
The inquiry involving Monica Goodling, the former counsel and White House liaison for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, raises new concerns that politics might have cast a shadow over the independence of trial prosecutors who enforce U.S. laws.
Justice spokesman Dean Boyd confirmed Wednesday that the department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility were investigating Goodling's role in hiring career attorneys — an unusual responsibility for her to take.
Goodling "may have taken prohibited considerations into account during such review," Boyd told the AP. "Whether or not the allegation is true is currently the subject of the OIG/OPR investigation."
Of course we all know this is an attempt to block the granting of immunity to Goodling. But then I ask myself what is more fun: Watching them squirm under the lights of a committee hearing, or letting them tear each other apart in the struggle for survival. If there is ever a win-win for us, it's this.
Update [2007-5-2 17:37:56 by RandyMI]:
A number of you have rightly pointed out that DOJ may be blocking Goodling;s tesitmony. But they are also aware that saving Gonzales is a top priority of Bush and Rove. Therefore, someone needs to be served up on a platter for the committee, and who better than another Monica?