DiFi Busted

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[HawaiianGecko]

DiFi Busted on Carol Lam

March 30, 2007

RUSH: Folks, you gotta hear this. I'm going to briefly touch here on the so-called scandal of the fired US attorneys. Dianne Feinstein making a huge stink about whether US attorney Carol Lam was fired mistakenly or unfairly because she's making a case here about how great Carol Lam was on immigration cases.  This is yesterday during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with the former chief of staff to Gonzales, Kyle Sampson. It's just a portion of what Di Fi said.

 

FEINSTEIN: An accumulation study done by USA Today places Carol Lam as one of the top three attorneys in the United States for the prosecution of these cases. It is a real surprise to me that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases. 

 

RUSH: Dianne Feinstein says an accumulation study done by USA Today places Carol Lam as one of the top three US attorneys for prosecution and immigration cases. "It's a real surprise to me," she said to Sampson, "that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases." Ladies and gentlemen, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers excerpts of a letter written by Dianne Feinstein to the honorable Alberto Gonzales June 15th of 2006. In this letter she specifically asked Gonzales whether Carol Lam, the US attorney for the Southern District of California, was doing her job by prosecuting enough illegal immigrants. She just yesterday cited USA Today survey, said that Carol Lam was doing a great job on immigration cases. Here are the excerpts. 

 

"It has come to my attention, Attorney General Gonzales that, despite high apprehension rates by Border Patrol agents along California's border with Mexico, prosecutions by the US attorney's office Southern District of California appear to lag behind. A concern voiced by Border Patrol agents is that low prosecution rates have a demoralizing effect on the men and women patrolling our nation's borders. It is my understanding that the US attorney's office, Southern District of California, may have some of the most restrictive prosecutorial guidelines nationwide for immigration cases, such that many Border Patrol agents end up not referring their cases. I'm concerned that lax prosecution --" she's talking about Carol Lam here, "I'm concerned that lax prosecution can endanger the lives of Border Patrol agents. 

 

"In 2005, the US attorney's office in southern California --" that would be Carol Lam "-- convicted only 387 aliens for alien smuggling and 262 aliens for illegal reentry after deportation. When looking at the rates of conviction from 2003 to 2005, the numbers of convictions fall by nearly half. I'm concerned, Mr. Attorney General, about these low numbers. I would like to know what steps can be taken to ensure that immigration violators are vigorously prosecuted. I appreciate your timely --" This is unbelievable. June 15th, 2006, she writes a letter to Gonzales complaining about Carol Lam, prosecution of illegal immigrants and the smugglers decreasing dramatically, and she is concerned. Now, she wants to know from the attorney general, is this not what Chuck Schumer did to Patrick Fitzgerald? Sent a letter demanding to know what's going on here? Isn't that what they're saying is all out of whack here? They've been tampering with these investigations; tampering with these offices of US attorneys. Isn't that what they're mad at Pete Domenici about for, because he sent letters off to Rove complaining about the US attorney in Arizona not doing the same thing? 

 

Here is Dianne Feinstein not even a year ago whining and moaning about Carol Lam and here she is yesterday quoting a newspaper, USA Today, citing Carol Lam as one of the top three attorneys in the US for prosecution of illegal immigration cases. I don't know what else we need. Anything else that's happened in these hearings can be washed out with this one instance. You talk about pure politics. There's no scandal here whatsoever. By the way, you know where this letter is posted? Huffington Post, a left-wing blog. That's where we found it. It's on the Huffington Post. You heard right. 

 

I don't know if you call it dishonesty, but it certainly is disingenuousness and indicates that even somebody of the stature of Di Fi is entirely capable of pure politics and a memory that is so scant that she doesn't even remember a year ago, not even a year ago, she was on Carol Lam's case for lack of prosecution, which is exactly why the president and his people decided they might need to replace her out there. She was demanding to know what's going to be done. She was de facto California senator demanding action on this because Carol Lam wasn't doing diddly-squat. She's on the same page as the justice department was and the attorney general's office. But no longer, because the Democrats now run the Senate and it's about getting Bush. It's about embarrassing Bush, and it's about politicizing and criminalizing every political decision the administration makes. Thank you, Senator Feinstein, for showing us who you are. 

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[Darkwolf377]

I may be wrong but I'm getting the sense the Gonzales witch hunt isn't doing a thing for the dems. They may just drop it when they realize it's only hurting them with Hispanic voters, and no one else really cares. It looked touch and go for awhile, but maybe the Republicans realized that turning on Bush at this level did nothing for them, and only empowered the dims.

[Ronin]

Probably right. It's all politics and power to the dims.

[HawaiianGecko]

It looked touch and go for awhile

I watched the entire Senate hearing yesterday on CSpan3 and the AG's ex-chief of staff really pounded sand up the Democrats tail.  Last night I simply couldn't believe the headlines in the NYTimes, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, USA Today etc.  Every single one of them said that Gonzo's chief of staff said Al lied.  It's just not at all the way the hearing went yesterday.  It clearly showed there is no scandal.

[Graybeard58]

Who you gonna believe, the MSM or your lying eyes?

[Condor 63]

no one else really cares.

Their strategy is this: throw enough darts and eventually you might hit a baloon and win the stuffed rabbit.

[KJC1]

This should be seen by everyone. BTTT

[nutmeg]

bookmark

[srmorton]

If it were not for a totally biased MSM, Democrats could not get away with such hypocrisy. If DiFi were a Republican criticizing a Democrat, her lack of candor would be the lead story in every major newspaper in the United States.

I can not believe someone like DiFi who will make a statement that can so easily be proved false. I will never forget the first time my eyes were opened to the fact that people will actually blatantly lie to make themselves look good or to achieve their own objectives. I was 30 years old and somewhat naive about the personal integrity of others. I took most people at face value and believed that everyone was basically honest. I was working in a hospital microbiology laboratory under a supervisor who was always trying to make herself look good at the expense of others. One day, the pathologist came by and asked her a question about a particular patient's results. I was the only other technologist in the department at the time. She out and out lied to him knowing she was lying and knowing that I knew she was lying. I think my mouth dropped open as I stared at her in disbelief.

Now at well over 50, I would not hesitate to call her on it, but at the time I was too intimidated by her and too speechless to say a word. Though she got away with it, the experience taught me a valuable lesson and showed me that she could not be trusted - a fatal flaw in someone who held the well-being and even the lives of patients in her hands. I have been teaching in the field for over 20 years and she has long since left the profession. The last I heard, she was a financial planner - another unfortunate choice of professions for a dishonest person.

[Peach]

Mark for later read

[Arrowhead1952]

From the Rush thread yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809295/posts

Reply to me by A.Hun at #234
Couldn't find the letter, but here is the Justice Dept's response.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/doj-lam/?resultpage=1&;;

My reply to A.Hun at #252
I found the letter. See pages 20 & 21 at the link.

http://www.judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/DOJDocsPt11-5070319.pdf

[Pistolshot]

The Defeatocrats return to power only mean one thing, look for the skeletons, create the scandals, build up a hatred for Republicans, by any means necessary, so the chances of winnning in '08 are better.

That's what this is all about. It's not about if the DOJ was right, or the President has the authority to fire US Attorneys that are not doing their job. It is about creating the illusion there has been any wrong-doing by the administration and by Republicans are not to be trusted.

Will Waxman's committee investigate kickbacks to DiFi's husband? Only when hell freezes over, and she had the gall to admonish the administration for the Walter Reed fiasco, when her husband controlled the companies that were supposed to perform the modifications to the buildings that are in question.

This is about an effort to stay in power, nothing more.

[NonValueAdded]

I may be wrong but I'm getting the sense the Gonzales witch hunt isn't doing a thing for the dems.

I Disagree. As long as they keep the AG talking, he keeps the issue alive by his surprising weakness. Gonzales sounds like a weak fool and the pubbies will not give cover through the blind party loyalty a RAT could expect from his side. RATs are gaining points but the DiFi gaff might mean it is time to take the winnings off the table and go to the bank. They own Alberto as much as they Own Defeat^™.

[Darkwolf377]

I've yet to encounter anyone outside these web forums who's brought up Gonzales.