Posted by Orin Kerr: Monica Goodling Testimony: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_20-2007_05_26.shtml#1179942941
I watched about an hour of Monica Goodling's testiony before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, and thought it was pretty uneventful. Based on what I saw, Goodling was a far more skillful witness than the House members were questioners. Most of the Democratic House members were just reading questions off a script prepared by staffers, and they didn't seem comfortable enough to go off-script to pursue something Goodling said. Meanwhile, Goodling was very skillful as a witness. She would often give a partial answer to the question that was technically true but very vague, and would then pivot and then turn the focus elsewhere and start talking for a while to help run out the clock. All in all, it went much better for the Administration than I would have expected. _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
