Griper Blade: Gonzales is Toast

This whole attorney purge has really gotten away from the White House. No one's buying the 'lost' email excuse, Gonzales has to testify before Congress (and he can't keep his lies straight), and we're starting to see what the lawyers who weren't fired had to do to keep their jobs. Things are not going well in the scandal containment department. Not well at all.

And all that bad news could get a whole lot worse in a big hurry.

Washington Post:

The confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys escalated again yesterday as Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said they are weighing an offer of immunity to a potential key witness in the investigation.

At the same time, the Republican National Committee yesterday turned down congressional demands that it hand over e-mails related to the firings, angering Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.).

Frustrated by Monica M. Goodling's refusal to testify, committee Democrats said they may grant limited-use immunity to the former counsel to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

Giving Goodling immunity would be about the worst case scenario for Team Bush. Goodling has complained that testifying would be a 'perjury trap.' I'm not sure how that works -- if you just tell the truth, you're safe. It's pretty damned hard to force someone to lie.

Of course, Goodling was pleading the fifth because she knew she couldn't tell the truth and not admit to committing a crime -- this whole 'perjury trap' business was spin and BS. Giving her immunity removes the only excuse she has, which puts Gonzo in a real bad place...

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