DOJ Official Brings Storm by Taking the Fifth in Gonzales Flap As White House liaison, Goodling was part of a small cadre of senior Justice officials responsible for vetting U.S. Attorneys, a position that became far more significant after the 2006 reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act, which gave Justice authority to install interim U.S. […]
Starting Thursday, I took a sabbatical from being politically obsessed. We had a honest_to_god expert dendrochronologist come look at our "trees" – a bunch of crooked trees in our forest we think are Cherokee Trail markers – but it’s never been proven. So we located a young professor who took us seriously and came to […]