Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers:
WASHINGTON – Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday.
Feinstein, D-Calif., said the timing of the e-mail suggested that Lam’s dismissal may have been connected to the corruption probe.
Ya think?
Oooh, no. I’m sure it was just a coincidence. They said she was fired because she didn’t prosecute immigration cases enough, and whyever would they lie to us about that??
Here in Illinois, honesty within state government was eaten away by having too much unchecked Republican control for too long. Please note that one key inner-agency corruption control person, the then Inspector General of our State Department, was using his position to block investigations and help cover-up the wrong-doing of his crony Republicans…..including wrong-doing by GOP Governor Ryan [since indicted and found guilty] Ryan’s sleaze while Secretary of State, sleaze termed ‘licenses for bribes’, resulted in the deaths a number of children.
Our then US Senator, Republican Peter Fitzgerald [his leaving office led to Obama winning that seat], is a real unusual Republican and therefore a genuine public hero. Peter Fitzgerald chose Patrick Fitzgerald [no relation] from New York to become our USA, knowing that any in-state attorney from our Republican ranks could not be trusted to tackle the rot.
I hope there is are Republicans of Peter Fitzgerald’s integrity somewhere at the national level who can be counted on to put good governance ahead of party. The thing is that this kind of Justice department rot is akin to allowing termites to severely weaken foundation timbers…..and then weeding out the termite inspectors who were doing their jobs.
Hopefully we’ll find out this week. If Leahy’s demand for public testimony under oath of the principle conspirators comes to be we might find out why certain USA’s were targeted, or at least get to see them dig themselves deeper into their lies.
Gonzales has already been caught in his lies, so his survival in office is looking shakey. It’s pretty bold to claim you were out of the loop when the documentation says you weren’t.
my first marriage was to someone who was related to the mafiosa in detroit. when we came out of the church, men in black suits with walkie-talkies were all over, looking at cars, taking down license numbers of cars that belonged to guests in the church. i asked who they were, my father-in-law said, f.b.i. and they are checking to see who is in town from other “families”. i saw how these families operated, heard talk over the course of my marriage.
i have been reading about these u.s. attornies and the threatening way they were treated, and i feel like i am back living with relatives of the mafiosa. every american, who has a brain, should feel real dirty. bush supporters and congress should be ashamed. but then his supporters do not have brains.
mamameow — Hopalong Cassidy and a mobster husband. Your life has been a lot more interesting than mine!
they do have very low echelons. my nusband was only related to them, i think his father maybe when he was younger, was low level wise guy. but family gatherings were huge and lots of gossip and i had big ears. the high school i went to, st ambrose, was supported by the “detroit family”. their kids got away with things the rest of us could not. the church where i was married, holy family, was totally supported by the mob. funerals were held at Bagnasco Funeral Homes. the old man bagnasco was “the” funeral man. someone from the Purple Gang wanted a funeral for someone who was not really dead but needed to permanently disappear but not dead. he refused and his fould him the next morning on the front lawn in his coffin. this was during prohabition.
teamster boss who disappeared, jimmy hoffa, was meeting with a member of the “family”. he will never be found. all of these families were at mass every sunday with the diamonds and furs and not one drop of shame.