Posted on 03/18/2007 10:36:38 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Senate Democrats signaled Sunday that of the eight U.S. attorneys abruptly fired by the Bush administration, the case in San Diego is emerging as the most troubling because of new allegations that U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was fired in a direct attempt to shut down investigations into Republican politicians in Southern California.
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Lam spearheaded the case against Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the former Republican congressman from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who pleaded guilty to bribery and income-tax evasion. He was sentenced in March 2006 to eight years and four months in prison.
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Feinstein said that, on May 10, Lam "sent a notice to the Justice Department saying that there would be two search warrants sent in the case of 'Dusty' Foggo and a defense contractor. The next day, an e-mail went from the Justice Department to the White House."
That May 11 e-mail was from D. Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, to White House Deputy Counsel William Kelley. "The real problem we have right now with Carol Lam ... leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her 4-year term expires," it read.
Sampson, who resigned last Monday, may also have been referring in that May 11 e-mail to a report that morning in the Los Angeles Times concerning a parallel investigation by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles into activities by Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a former GOP congressman, Bill Lowery of San Diego.
Yawn. The AGs serve at the pleasure of the POTUS. He can fire whomever he wants to for whatever reason he wants to.
Would Bill Clinton apologize for firing an AG? Hell no.
Why Bush didn't just say that to begin with is why the Republican party is in the minority right now.
Cut the PC bullcrap Republicans. Rats have no mercy. We shouldn't either.
Dummies have the wrong US Atty:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/update_on_us_attorney_firings.html
Would Bill Clinton apologize for firing an AG? Hell no.
She ok'ed the murder of 80 people in waco and was not fired.
I would like to see someone bring that up.
Not to mention how she snatched away the Gonzalez kid from his family in Florida and massacred others at Ruby Ridge.
Republicans pander way to much. It's annoying and disheartening.
Thanks. I hadn't known that it was the US attorney in LA who was looking into Lewis, not the US attorney in SD.
Obviously, neither do the Sen Dems making this ridiculous charge nor the reporter who printed it.
the Dems are so praying for a Nixonian blunder here. Vietnam and Nixon's tearing down are their crowning achievements.
Well .. I happen to know the contractor who supposedly bribed Cunningham will go on trial about the 10th of April. I know that because I was asked to serve on that jury - but my job prevents me from being able to do it.
I have no idea if this was a continuation of Lamb's investigation or not.
The dems are just plucking at straws .. and their concerns are really a condition called "projection technique". According to a psychiatrist .. the projection technique is used to accuse your enemy of doing things that you have either ALREADY DONE - OR ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING.
The Clintons have already done this .. they fired their 93 AG's in order to hide the fact that 2 of them were the target - because those 2 AG's were investigating FOB's. Soooooo .. they assume the Bush's would do the same thing they were doing.
Believe me .. I lived with a person with this type of personality and I can tell you for a fact that it's devastating to be accused of doing things (you're not doing) when in truth the person who's accusing you is really doing those things.
THIS IS A STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR THE DEMS - they have just now confessed they fired their 93 AG's FOR PURE POLITICAL REASONS!! LOL!!
Oh .. and if anybody hasn't figured out what the mistake was .. IT WAS BECAUSE GONZALES SAID THAT THE FIRINGS WERE NOT DONE FOR POLITICAL REASONS .. WHEN IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT THESE ARE POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS.
Duke Cunningham was a true blue hero of the Vietnam War and then turned into a power corrupted POS who deserves every year of prison to which he was sentenced. To fire a U.S. Attorney for digging into the corruption of Cunningham or any other legislator is every bit as despicable as taking a bribe from a defense contractor. Political power can corrupt nearly everyone, regardless of party, and such corruption should never be excused or covered up. If the AG knew about or ordered it, he ought to resign or be fired himself for being corrupt himself. And if the POTUS or anyone else in his White House knew about it or ordered it, then they deserve the same fate. Serving at the pleasure of the President is not license to wield power capriciously.
Or those making causations without knowing the facts and only ASSUMING they know the facts, should keep their mouths shut.
That is why the loony left should never be taken seriously. They have always had the need to make claims that they can not or will not back and shame on the Republicans who do not put them in their place.
Much of the our so called Democrat leadership have shown they aren't even qualified to run as dog dogcatchers let alone be politicians.
Today, Victoria Toensing have gotten to be somewhat a hero to me and I think some of the Republicans should review how to handle liars like Waxman and his monkey buddies. The Republicans should learn to take them to task or they deserve their fate.
The Democrat leadership should be shown the error of their ways and sent away.
Ahem. See post #5. Then chill.
In california if voteing worked they wouldn't let us do it.
I agree with you.
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