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Ex-aide: Gonzales deputy 'not fully candid' - Politics - MSNBC.com

WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales’ deputy knew more about the firings of U.S. attorneys than he let on to congressional investigators, Gonzales’ former White House liaison testified Wednesday in a House hearing where she also said she herself had crossed a legal line.

Testifying under court-approved immunity, 33-year-old Monica Goodling acknowledged that she had given too much consideration to whether candidates for jobs as career prosecutors were Republicans or Democrats.

“You crossed the line on civil service laws, is that right?” asked Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.

“I believe I crossed the line,” Goodling replied. “But I didn’t mean to.”

Goodling, 33, testified at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in a room packed with so many photographers that panel chairman John Conyers spent several minutes shooing them away from her witness table.

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