Goodling's opening statements were very revealing......

In Monica Goodling's opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee today we learned a lot of things. Goodling defended herself from Gonzales's accusation( made during a questioning by Chuck Schumer during Gonzales's appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee) that she withheld information from him before he made a briefing appearance, so in other words Gonzales lied at the briefing (he pleaded ignorance regarding the attorney firings) and also to Schumer (when he blamed Goodling for his lies at the briefing).
She also alluded that Gonzales's Judicial Selection Comittee which included Sampson, hatched the attorney purge plan during an infamous meeting, which Goodling was excluded from. She claims she had no final saying with the list that Sampson compiled of attorneys to purge and only made minor suggestions which were never used.
Most importantly during her opening statement she admits she may have broken the law but did not intend to , when political affiliation and ideology was used for hiring criteria at the department of justice, including not only political appointees but judges and career hiring at the DOJ!!!
All of this in the first 5 minutes!!

Confirmed Gonzales lied to Chuck Schumer, Gonzales lied at his briefing and Gonzales had a direct role in the firings after attending the meeting with the Judicial Committee and civil service laws were broken by Goodling with her Bush hack driven hiring techniques of asking applicants about their political leanings!!!!!!