ERIC MULLER: “Monica Goodling has a valid basis for asserting the Fifth Amendment privilege.”

Not really my area of expertise, but he’s certainly no apologist for the Bush DoJ. As I’ve done before, I’ll just recommend my former colleague Peter W. Morgan’s The Undefined Crime of Lying to Congress: Ethics Reform and the Rule of Law, 86 Nw. U. L. Rev. 177 (1992), which explains the way in which the False Statements Act (18 U.S.C. 1001, which applies to statements made to any federal official, not just Congress) has been used and abused. Sadly, Morgan’s piece is not available on the web anywhere, as far as I can tell.

UPDATE: A contrary take from Orin Kerr.