TPM Reader SL on Schlozman …
Monica Goodling told the truth as she saw it, which is different from the truth but is all you can hope to get from someone. Sampson and Gonzales told neither lies nor the truth; they didn’t say much of anything, sort of a pregnant silence. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Schlozman lied. Specifically, I think he lied about contact with the White House over the Acorn indictments. His whole tone and demeanor changed when he gave those particular answers. He became monosyllabic, his delivery was flat (prior to that it had been passively aggressive), and a hard look of despair took over his demeanor.
I had a slightly different breakdown of Schlozman’s testimony yesterday. But on balance I agree with SL. Sampson and Gonzales, for better or worse, played the faulty memory card on pretty much every significant question. But Schlozman gave a number of pretty unequivocal answers that I think were almost certainly false. A number of readers have commented on his often telling affect. But in addition to being a first class weasel who appears to have dedicated much of his professional career to cutting down on minority voting I think it’s pretty clear that a number of Schlozman’s claims will be easily contradicted in subsequent testimony.
We’re going to have a video compilation of Schlozman’s testimony up later this morning.
