If you believe the testimony he gave Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was "largely out of the loop in the Justice Department's firings of U.S. attorneys." What, then, to make of Monica Goodling's testimony that "there were a number of things that I did brief him on and that that information wasn't fully -- wasn't fully revealed" when McNulty appeared before Congress.

GOODLING: I'm just saying that I didn't believe he was fully candid.

And the point that I was trying to make is that I did give him some information, I didn't withhold information, I gave him a lot of information, and he had some of that information and didn't use of all of it.

NADLER:Although, in fact, he stated things directly contrary to what your written statement says he knew to be true.

GOODLING:Those would be conclusions for others to draw.

As Monica invites, feel free to draw your own conclusions about McNulty. Gonzales also claims to have been absent from the loop. Perhaps there was no loop. Perhaps the Justice Department is loopless. Or perhaps the strategy is to point fingers in every direction (except inward) with the hope that confusion reigns until it's time to move on.