Take the 5th, take a hike

New York Daily News: Incriminating herself? She's worried about incriminating herself? That's a hell of a thing for a Justice Department official to be worried about.
Monica Goodling, top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, nothing less than the Justice liaison to the White House, has every constitutional right to invoke her Fifth Amendment protections. But refusing to talk to Congress about what is supposedly a non-criminal matter because you're afraid you're going to incriminate yourself is unbelievable.
Particularly when the president has announced that Justice officials up to and including Gonzales will go before congressional investigators and make full disclosure about everything they know in the matter of the eight fired U.S. attorneys.
Inquiring minds
We've been of the mind that this fracas has been much tempestuous to-do about relatively little, mostly a case of congressional Democrats licking their chops at the prospect of pouncing upon anything whatever. Federal prosecutors are political appointees, serving at a president's pleasure, removable at any time, for any reason a president chooses to cite. What's to investigate?
Conversely, what's to hide? Which is a legitimate question, now that Goodling has chosen to plead the Fifth like a common mobster. At this point, we side with the Congress in demanding answers. Let's have them. And let's be rid of Goodling.