By Susan Crabtree, The Hill
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) wants more information than Monica Goodling, a former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is willing to provide when she testifies before Conyers’s panel Wednesday.
John Dowd, Goodling’s attorney, said his client refuses to hand over unredacted documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys last year because they are official Department of Justice (DoJ) documents and she does not have the department’s permission to do so.
That response was not sufficient for Conyers, who demanded in a follow-up letter that Goodling, who has resigned in the wake of the U.S. attorney scandal, comply fully with the committee’s subpoena.