About time……now my question is, how does this play on her testifying? Funny a girl who attended a college that is “committed to an embracing evangelical spirit,” is so worried about perjury. Doesn’t she know the truth will set her free???

WASHINGTON: A top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on Friday, becoming another casualty of the political storm that has rocked the Justice Department since the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors last year.

The aide, Monica Goodling, had helped to coordinate those dismissals with the White House, an episode that has provoked demands for Gonzales’s dismissal. Even his allies, including President George W. Bush, say the dismissals were bungled from the standpoint of public relations and politics.

Goodling, who has been on leave as the Justice Department’s liaison to the White House, notified the Senate Judiciary Committee through her lawyer on March 26 that she would invoke her constitutional right not to testify in the panel’s inquiry about the dismissals - not because she had anything to hide, the lawyer said, but because she did not expect fair treatment in the current climate of political hostility.