California attorney's firing draws Dems' spotlight [a Duke Cunningham connection alleged]

LA Times ^ | March 18, 2007 | LA Times

[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.

[the Real fifi]

Today's story (McClatchy) is that Lamm's firing interfered w/ the Foggo investigation (he was the CIA official charged w/ corruption related matters). It, too, is nonsensical:

The memo suggesting she should be replaced was written one year earlier, in March 2003. And the Foggo subpoena was served w/out a hitch in May 2006:

Foggo's Home and Langley Office Swept in Corruption Probe

By Dafna Linzer and Charles R. Babcock
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 13, 2006; Page A01

Federal agents yesterday searched the CIA offices and Northern Virginia home of Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the spy agency's No. 3 official who was forced to resign this week amid a widening criminal investigation into allegations of government corruption and bribery.

Officials inside CIA headquarters saw agents hauling away items from Foggo's seventh-floor suite, and neighbors outside his rented house in the Oakdale Park section of Vienna said officers, some wearing plastic gloves, placed materials in vans parked at the front and rear of the split-level brick home.
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And Foggo was just indicted.
So (a) there seems no nexus between the decision to fire her and the Foggo subpoena and (b) there is no sign at all that firing her interfered at all w/ the case involving Foggo.