Reply #42: Monica Goodling, Former Justice official, says Congress was misled about Griffin

[L. Coyote]

Former Justice official says Congress misled about Griffin
Thursday, May 24, 2007
By Aaron Sadler
Stephens Washington Bureau
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/05/24/WashingtonDCBureau/342141.html


WASHINGTON - A former Justice Department official testified Wednesday that the No. 2 man at the department misled a Senate panel ....

Monica Goodling told the House Judiciary Committee that Paul McNulty, the former deputy attorney general, was aware of White House involvement to appoint Griffin as interim U.S. attorney in Little Rock. ...

"I believe that the deputy ... failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas," Goodling said.

In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February, McNulty said he did not know the reason behind Griffin's appointment. Goodling said McNulty had known about the plan for months.

McNulty has denied misleading Congress. .........

Pryor spokesman Michael Teague said the e-mail illustrates why Griffin shouldn't be U.S. attorney.

"Everything's political to him," Teague said. "He e-mails Karl Rove and he's bragging about how he took a swipe at Pryor. This e-mail was sent to the entire White House team right at the time everybody was saying, 'Oooh, Karl Rove's got nothing to do with this.'" ..........

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I FIND THIS MOST INTERESTING:

"Goodling is a friend of Griffin. Both were opposition researchers for the Republican National Committee during the 2004 election and Goodling said in an e-mail made public Wednesday that "Tim and I speak daily." "

Griffin's "opposition research" is alleged to include caging voters in Florida, an effort directed at election rigging. How much does Monica Goodling know about this?