Comments on: McNulty Ignored White House Guidance

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:10:15 +0000

I'm with Stormy on this. Libby teaches that you shut up, even when you have nothing to hide. Libby is looking at jail time not for his actions, but because he didn't take the fifth.

By: Pete_Bondurant

Pete_Bondurant — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:10:06 +0000

Yes, there is something going on....incredible stupidity. Yet again, the Republicans (and certain bloggers) get sucked into a non-scandal. It happened with Plame, it is happening again here. The president can fire any lawyer he chooses to for any reason.....that is it, case closed.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:34:58 +0000

If I understand Miers' instructions, she was basically telling McNulty not to discuss "work product." That strikes me as reasonable enough, regardless of whether such product is dubious.

You're almost certainly right on the instinct.

By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:34:46 +0000

Libby taught everyone about the perils of testifying under oath in a partisan atmosphere. Thus, her lawyer referring to Libby in his letter advising Congress that she will plead the fifth.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:27:01 +0000

So the "guidance" was to stonewall, and McNulty cracked? Interesting. As I remind my clients when they're to be deposed, there's a strange human instinct at work -- when someone's asking us questions, we very much want to answer them, whether we have to or not, whether we even know the answer or not.

By: David L

David L — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:16:13 +0000

Paul McNulty needs to go. The president has to show Chuck Schumer that he, the president, runs the DOJ, and not Senator Schumer. The adminstratino can not gain control of the DOJ when staffers show more loyalty to Schumer than they do the either the AG the POTUS.

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