In advance of tomorrow’s testimony by arch-Purgemeister and former Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson, we’re trying to assemble all the relevant information 
together so you can best understand and interpret just what Sampson says and whether and how it comports with the facts as they are presently known.
One part of the story which is coming into focus pretty quickly is the position of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and the coterie around Gonzales himself.
McNulty was the one who went up to the Hill and said the firings were for poor performance. But McNulty has since told Sen. Schumer that he explicitly asked Goodling and others, who were briefing him for his testimony, various questions about what had happened in the attorney firings and that they lied to him. ‘Misled’ him might be the term of art. But the key point from what McNulty is saying is that if he misled Congress it wasn’t intentionally. It was because Goodling et al. misled him. If true, that would be a crime. And that’s almost certainly the real reason Goodling will take the fifth when called to testify.
In any case, we’re going to have all this information laid out for you in time for the big event tomorrow. And with so much muck around, that reminds me that our DC Muckraking Fundraiser (for details click here) continues!
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