I have never attended a meeting of the White House Judicial Selection Committee. The attorney general and Kyle Sampson attended those meetings. To the best of my recollection, I’ve never had a conversation with Karl Rove or Harriet Miers while I served at the Department of Justice. And I’m certain that I never spoke to either of them about the hiring or firing of any U.S. attorney.
Not that I would place any of these characters above flat-out Bush Administration-patterned bald faced lies, but I believe we have reason enough from past performances out of White House criminals to believe Monica might be parsing her words carefully so as to not actually perjure herself. So let's think about what that statement doesn't say. It doesn't say she never met with Karl Rove or Harriet Miers (perhaps before she was hired, to talk about what they expected out of her if she took the position), and it doesn't say she never discussed the hiring or firing via email or other written communication with either of them. And it doesn't say that she didn't get orders passed on to her from a go-between. And finally, "to the best of my recollection."
Of course, there's a possibility that they brought this naive young hard-ass-Christian-Republican girl into the den of thieves to use as needed for hatchet work and then leave her hanging in the wind. There is some hint of that in her opening statement today. (Not the hard-ass part - she says she's a quiet person who tries to treat people kindly and do the right thing.)
....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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