Did anyone watch Sara Taylor's testimony yesterday? It was riveting.
She was unflappable in some Nabisco-I've-been-eating Lorna Doones-my whole-life-and-I'm-the-girl-next-door-and-I'm really-pretty-and-I'm-smart-as-a-whip kind of way. And the senators were so apologetic that she'd been placed in this "difficult" situation by the White House and Mr. Fielding, made to walk a tight-rope, if you will, so appreciative that she had agreed to testify to the best of her ability under such trying circumstances as she repeated the same answer over and over, so well-prepared that it came out as an ad-lib every time, "If I understand Mr. Fielding's letter," (hesitate here, as if she's really trying to parse whether the question does fall into this category), "I am directed not to answer -- any -- questions -- about internal or -- external deliberations and I believe this falls into that category."
Until it became clear that she was selectively answering questions that spoke to her opinion that to her knowledge, there was no wrong-doing in the White House, that there were no politics in play, at all, and her friend Tim Griffin was the best person for the job. And that her memory was, also, selective, that she could not recall whether anyone had ever complained to her about any Attorney General, in fact, she couldn't even recall what she had for breakfast last week." (Come on, Sara, you're not that old. I know what I had for breakfast last week -- I had a really great waffle at the Four Seasons in Chicago; it was a little crusty, but it was great.) That she could not recall whether she'd signed an employment agreement at the White House and whether it had a "confidentiality" clause in it that extended beyond her employment term.
She did say that she had taken an oath to the president and that she took that oath very seriously. One of the senators reminded her that she had not, in fact, taken "an oath to the president", she had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.