AP reporting Goodling to Testify before House Judiciary with immunity

[Perky]

Gonzo is in Europe nest week....I bet he does the G8 summit and then resigns.

[bobbolink]

1. Will anyone have the gumption to keep pressing her?

Or will all her "I don't recall"s suffice?

[AndyA]

2. Since she has immunity, I don't believe she can get away with "I don't recalls"

To get immunity, she agreed to a deal. She has likely already revealed what she knows, because if there's nothing there, she would not have been granted immunity. They want to know what they're getting in return for immunity, so I suspect she'll sing like a Bird.

Cue up Silver Convention:

Fly Amy, Fly
Up up to the sky...

[bobbolink]

8. I will hope that you are right. I've seen too much shit to have much faith

anymore, and I don't see much spine in those "committees".

Certainly not what I had hoped for.

If anything comes of it, I think it will be a fluke.

[woodsprite]

3. Gonzo could decide to return via Paraguay. n/t

[elocs]

4. It may mean nothing, but I just had an uh-oh moment.

Could this be the moment when somebody testifies who seems to be relatively insignificant, but is the catalyst that starts to bring the whole thing down?
I think of the end of the movie "The Return of the King" when the armies are battling before Mordor and the One Ring is destroyed and Sauron and the great eye come crumbling down. When this is all finished I think we will look back and remember one moment and think, "Ahh, that is when it started and everything started coming apart". It may not be this moment, but in hindsight I think we will remember one.

[senseandsensibility]

5. kick

Here's hoping that she has agreed to reveal something in exchange for immunity. They wouldn't give her immunity for nothing would they?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. She CANNOT lie about anything.

She cannot lie about anything, since they gave her immunity. The committee already knows what she is going to testify to. She has told them in private, similarly to a grand jury. And if she deviates ONE BIT from anything she has told them already, she gets hit with a perjury charge.

The canary in the Watergate case was Alexander Butterfield, who casually mentioned in his testimony that there was a taping system in the Oval Office that Nixon had had installed. That broke the case open. And then John Dean had the conscience, as the President's counsel, to tell the truth. He was a young man at the time. I still have a great deal of respect for him.

I distinctly remember him testifying at the Watergate hearings with his beautiful wife, Maureen, sitting behind him.

[sam sarrha]

7. and ...she CAN'T leave anything out, or she will be charged and convicted of it