Common Sense

Wow, I wasn’t ready for that. Of course, this makes me think that Gonzo is next to the chopping block.

I’m sure we was feeling pressured to resign or fall on her sword or whatever. Her pleading the Fifth amendment was turning into quite the spectacle. How could a top lawyer at the Justice Department fear her testimony to Congress might lead to her prosecution? That in itself made me think there was something going on that we haven’t seen yet.

Now with her leaving (and I’m assuming maintaining her Fifth amendment rights) less attention will be focused on her specifically and more on the two sides for which we was the liason: the White House and AG Gonzales.

Even more specifically, Karl Rove and Gonzales. It is transparent that Gonzales either knows something and has been lying and therefore should step down, or knows nothing at all and is too incompetent to be attorney general. Either way, he’s got one more chance before Congress to show something akin to plausibility before he gets axed.

Gonzo will go before Rove, which is a whole other problem. Without Goodling, Congress will look to Rove who was involved on the White House side. A few weeks ago, I read something that seemed like good reasoning about how using the RNC mail server could be used to argue against their use of executive privelege. It can’t be priveleged if 95% of his emails for government business aren’t on his government email account. If it’s the private RNC account it may also be a violation of the Presidential Records Act; at the very least the spirit of that law is being violated.

We’ll see how this saga continues to play out Monday morning.