If you look on page two of this document, you’ll see the following paragraph:
While she appeared voluntarily and testified on a number of subjects unrelated to the subject matter, Ms. Ralston declined to respond to questions regarding contacts between Mr. Abramoff and White House officials. She indicated that if she were subpoenaed to discuss these subjects, she would invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
Ralston worked for Abramoff from 1998 to 2001, the height of his dirty dealing period, in which he was robbing Indian tribes involved in casino gambling. Then she went to work for Rove. Rove as we know is responsible for many of the names on the US Attorney Purge list. Five of those US Attorneys fired last December were on a DOJ committee involving the prevention of money laundering through tribal casinos.
And note this paragraph from her lawyer, at the time of her previous private testimony on May 10:
The subjects this morning that she will be unable to testify to on those [Fifth Amendment] grounds are the subjects of the relationship between Jack Abramoff and his associates and White House officials, including Ms. Ralston, and the subject of the use by White House officials of political e-mail accounts at the RNC.”
Goodling was the DOJ liaison with Rove, and has documents in her possession that have been subpoenaed, including specifically Karl Rove e-mails using an RNC account, and won’t turn them over to that committee. Ralston, Karl Rove’s assistant and formerly Abramoff’s, pleads the Fifth specifically in order to not talk about White House officials’ “use of political e-mail accounts at the RNC.”
Both of these women are protecting the same thing – Karl Rove’s e-mails made while improperly using an RNC account.
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