Document former San Diego US attorney Carol Lam has given to the House Judiciary committee:

[laststeamtrain]

The San Diego Union Tribune reports on a 13 page document former San Diego US attorney Carol Lam has given to the House Judiciary committee:

The document contains Lam's responses to questions from the committee, and it sheds some new light on just how aggressively the Justice Department shoved her out the door.

A few days after learning last December that she was to submit her resignation effective Jan. 31, Lam asked Michael Battle, then the head of the U.S. attorney executive office, for extra time to ensure "an orderly transition" especially regarding pending investigations and several significant cases that were set to begin trial in the next few months, Lam wrote in her answers.

At the time, Lam was investigating corruption cases stemming from her successful prosecution of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion charges after admitting to taking more than $2.4 million in bribes. Cunningham was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison. Besides Lam, four other prosecutors were presiding over corruption investigations when they were dismissed.

About a month passed when Lam got a call from Michael Elston, Gonzales' former chief of staff, telling her that her request for extra time was "not being received positively" and that she "should stop thinking in terms of the cases in the office."

"He insisted that I had to depart in a matter of weeks, not months, and that these instructions were 'coming from the very highest level of the government,'" Lam wrote.

To add insult, Battle later accused Lam of prematurely leaking her departure to the press, Lam wrote, then criticized her for speaking with other dismissed U.S. attorneys about their firings.

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/006215.html

[wakeme2008]

1. this is the first I have heard of others FIRED in her office.

This is more than just replacing her with a Loyal Bushie... But killing cases.

[pnwmom]

2. Couldn't the four dismissed prosecutors refer to the other US attorneys?

[luckyleftyme2]

3. what do you expect

we need to impeach and jail these corrupt officals! now not after 08!
this protecting the corrupt needs to stop!

[JTFrog]

4. Any other sources on this?

After the Gore joining the debate scenario, I'll wait to hear it elsewhere first.