. . . Rep. [Sheila] Jackson Lee also caused a few observers to scratch their heads when she opened her questioning of [Monica] Goodling this way: “Allow me just to simply begin a series of questions, Ms. Goodling, and I would ask that they — your answers — be as cryptic and as brief as possible, however truthful, because we do have a shortened period of time.”
“Cryptic?” whispered one reporter. “Did she say cryptic? I think she did.”
Indeed she did. But Goodling did not follow Rep. Jackson LeeÂ’s directions. In fact, her answers were quite clear and direct. . . . |