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Under Leahy's Boot

3.30.07 @ 12:01AM

THAT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
Re: Jeffrey Lord's A Tale of Monica and Pat Leahy:

I was dismayed when I heard that a Justice Department official was planning to take the Fifth, if necessary, before Mr. Leahy's committee. After all, even the Democrats acknowledge that there is no air of criminality surrounding the attorney firings.

However, after reading Mr. Lord's account of his own and other's experiences in dealing with Leahy's minions, I'm surprised that anyone would dare walk into that hearing room, voluntarily or otherwise. Why should Ms. Goodling open herself up to charges of perjury, which would surely follow if she forgot the slightest detail of the most innocuous conversation with the most minor of officials at Justice?

From his leaky sojourn on the Intelligence Committee to his Stalinist rule over Judiciary, Mr. Leahy is a disgrace, and has been for over two decades.
-- Richard Meade
Bayside, New York

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is indeed a banana republic-type thug. It turns my stomach to think that he is a United States Senator. The voters of Vermont should be ashamed, but lovely Vermont apparently has been overwhelmed over the years by the influx of too many left-wing nutcases (think Howard Dean) Too bad, too, that so much of the MSM has been captured by the extremist left, so that Leahy and his ilk won't get the close-in public attention they deserve. Goodling is absolutely correct to invoke her Fifth Amendment right not to testify; and as long the committee includes such as Leahy, and his lefty cohorts no member of any Republican administration should fail to do so. What are these despicable partisans doing to our system of government?
-- John G. Hubbell
Minnetonka, Minnesota

Why would anyone in their right mind agree to testify at ANY congressional hearing? The inquisitors, politicians all, when not pontificating on every subject under the sun, are neither under oath, nor are they are bound by any rules of interrogation, while the person testifying is under threat of perjury should they make a misstatement.

Hell yes, I'd take the fifth. Or a quart. Or both.
-- Al Markel
San Francisco, California

Thank you so much for the having the column, and to Mr. Lord for writing it. I now know what some of the comments I have heard mean about Ms. Goodling. I had watched O'Reilly with the law professor on, and they were talking about the situation with Ms. Goodling... and the Fifth. I now completely understand.

As an American, I want to thank you both for getting the info on Leahy out there. It is so important. I personally can not stand the man, and he is "another" of the Democrats that is/was just a foot outside a jail cell. It is depressing now, with the Democrats acting like children, especially since they are putting my family in danger. It is also depressing that history is repeating itself with the votes in the Congress concerning the troops and the funding. THIS happened during the Vietnam war, all this same stuff. I know. My family/friends were on the receiving end of those Democrats. I am so angry. I personally think many of the Democrats are ruled by the devil. I am moderate, independent voter, not a radical, crazy Christian, and I deeply love this great country.

I hope that people like you, Mr. Editor, and Mr. Lord keep trying to save us with the truth. It must be like a speck of sand against the appeasers, but I pray that you and others make a difference, and somehow the Leahy, Kennedy, Clinton, Reed, Pelosi, Durbin... all of them, including my two Senators (Baucus/Tester), get what they deserve, and that the American people stand up for this country.

Thank you, and keep getting the truth out there.
-- Linda Airhart

Reading Jeffrey Lord's article about the execrable Patrick Leahy just confirms the opinion I've had of that man since I first heard words from his mouth.

I truly am fearful of what is happening to the Democratic Party. It seems no rule or law can stand in their way since the mainstream media just looks the other way when Democrats do truly outrageous, illegal or unethical things. We conservatives must hang together or, as Ben Franklin said, we shall most assuredly hang separately with Democrats in charge. One can hardly fault Monica Goodling for protecting herself in the climate of "get any Republican we can" that has emerged since Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over in January.

The radicals on the left have taken control of the Democrats, the Congress, the media, the campus and the legal profession. What happens when they take the White House as well? And, if there is a close election, any guesses which party will come out on top -- regardless of who really wins? (Just check the results of the Washington state governor's race for a clue. Hugo Chavez would be proud.) Better hang on to your wallets and go buy a gun while you still can -- oh, and if you're Exxon-Mobil, good luck keeping your profits since Hillary said she would take them. Can you say "banana republic"?
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

A big thank you to all those self-described conservatives who punished the Republicans in 2006 and empowered Democrats. Because of your continued efforts to punish and humiliate Republicans, 2008 looks to be even a better year for Democrat politicians. That heralds even higher taxes and more tyranny from Patrick Leahy and the resurgent Democrat majority. Happy days are here again.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

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