In the Friday night trash, Monica Goodling, the fragile DOJ-WH go-between, resigned rather than continue to be the only Justice official in the history of the Republic to threaten to take the fifth and stay on the job...
The question I have simmering on the back burner is whether the rest of the 93 US Attorneys ought to resign of their own volition, despite whatever Gonzales and the WH come up with for lawmakers on the Hill about "improper reasons"? It's not that I'm suggesting that they should do, rather, I'm wonder what I would do if I were one of them, under similar circumstances.
At a minimum, we know so far that the job-evalution that was used to keep them employeed as servants of the (*cough*) people, was based on chitty-chats that D. Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' deputy chief-of-staff, had with various people and a file with a chart that he reported that he kept in a drawer without many notes or anything. In other words, so far we know it was a joke of a performance evaluation process ...
It's easy to imagine how Gonzales is going to spin his role in all this, but, if the "mistakes that were made" relate to the absence of a credible, dispassionate evaluation program, the rest of the Attorneys do seem to owe their continuation to the same bogus set of "mistakes" that caused others to lose their own...
Background from WaPo on Gonzales staff, here.
Meanwhile, speculating on whether Gonzales will resign has been all over the map:
