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Originally Posted by EaseUp
Sorry about your fatigue. Randy Cunningham was removed from office. If there was a Republican fighting for him to remain, it did not make it to any media outlets in my area.
William Jefferson is still in office. Alcee Hastings is still in office.
Business as usual, apparently.
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Okay....let's examine why EaseUp thinks that "both parties" are "just as bad"; I've quoted his justification, and I invite him to counter my research:
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1066080426784
The Power of the Pardon
Tony Mauro
Legal Times
October 16, 2003
Former D.C. criminal defense lawyer William Borders Jr. makes no excuses for the crimes he committed 22 years ago that led to his disbarment. Caught in a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation, he was found guilty of conspiracy to bribe then-federal Judge Alcee Hastings. He spent three years in prison.
But when President Bill Clinton pardoned Borders on his last day of office in 2001, Borders thought his long path of repentance and rehabilitation had finally brought him to a point where he could resume his law practice -- and redirect it toward helping young people and the community.
The D.C. Court of Appeals did not agree, ruling that the pardon did not automatically entitle Borders to reinstatement.....
<h3>....Two powerhouse lawyers who are ideological opposites joined to write Borders' petition: Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree and former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
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"This man has spent two decades apologizing and rectifying a serious error he made years ago. He knows the tarnish will be there forever," says Ogletree. "I can't think of a single reason why he should not have a second chance."
The case puts Starr, a partner in the D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis, in the position of defending a pardon given by Clinton, whose administration he investigated relentlessly. "We felt this case presents very important constitutional issues on core questions of executive power," says Kannon Shanmugam, a Kirkland associate who worked with Starr on the brief.
The National Bar Association has also filed a brief with the Court on behalf of Borders, who was president of the black lawyers organization in 1980, just before his downfall.
To former D.C. delegate Walter Fauntroy, Borders' case has a spiritual quality to it. "Being pardoned by the president is like being pardoned by Jesus," says Fauntroy, a longtime friend of Borders. "Your sins are dropped into a sea of forgiveness, like they never happened. It is the only power a president has that cannot be challenged -- except in D.C., apparently."
D.C. lawyer disciplinary agencies have opposed Borders' reinstatement for more than 10 years -- long before the pardon. <b>The bar brief notes that Borders has repeatedly refused to testify about his role in the bribery of Hastings, who was acquitted of criminal charges, but was impeached and now serves in Congress.</b> ......
.....<b>Clinton's pardon of Borders was not one of the controversial, fast-track pardons Clinton also granted that day</b>. Ogletree and Fauntroy made application for it in the traditional fashion, supported by numerous letters from black members of Congress and others.
"There was no short circuit to it," says Borders. "The FBI did a full background check, spoke to people I knew, everyone. The process took a year."
Borders declines to revisit the subject of the crimes he committed, describing it as a time "when I had gotten away from the church." But since leaving prison, Borders "made a pact with God," he says, to return to church and to rebuild his life......
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BOPWatch/message/1713
washingtonpost.com
Pardoned but Still Disbarred
By William Raspberry
Monday, June 23, 2003; Page A21
....A brief history: Twenty-two years ago Borders, a Washington lawyer, and Hastings, a judge on the U.S. District Court in Miami, were accused of conspiring to arrange a $150,000 bribe to reduce the sentences of two brothers who had been convicted of racketeering and sentenced by Hastings.
Hastings was acquitted, though he was later impeached by Congress and removed from the bench. He subsequently was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he now serves.
Borders, tried separately, was convicted of conspiracy, sentenced to a five-year prison term and disbarred.....
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.....to sum up the Alcee Hastings justification...."the crime" is 26 years old. The man accused of setting up the bribe for Hastings was the beneficiary of a pardon...five years ago, by Bill Clinton, that is described as "non-controversial", and indeed....none other than rabidly partisan lawyer Ken Starr, in 2003, attempted to convince the SCOTUS to restore the right to practice law, to the William Borders, the only person convicted in Hasting's "crime", and Starr supported Borders, who has refused for 22 years to reveal what he knows about Hasting's bribe taking.....
The democratic congressional leadership has reacted to Hastings bid for a key committee post and to Rep. Jefferson..... considering that Hastings was long ago acquitted in a criminal trial and not barred by the US Senate from holding federal elected office.....even though they had the option to bar him when a Senate committee impeached him in 1989....and the fact that Jefferson has not been indicted....in a much more reasonable way than the republican leaders who allowed both republican Reps. Tom Delay and Bob Ney to remain in office as long as they liked, after both were indicted, and even after Ney plead guilty in federal court to selling the influence of his office to Jack Abramoff:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...112900503.html
Pelosi Passes Hastings for Intel Chair
By KATHERINE SHRADER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2006; 9:07 AM
WASHINGTON -- In a decision that could roil Democratic unity in the new House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi passed over Rep. Alcee Hastings Tuesday for the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee.
Hastings, currently the No. 2 Democrat on the panel, had been aggressively making a case for the top position, supported by members of the Congressional Black Caucus.....
....Critics pointed out that he had been impeached when he was a federal judge and said naming him to such a sensitive post would be a mistake just as the Democrats take over House control pledging reforms......
....The chairman of the Black Caucus, Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina, said Hastings' statement showed "an unequivocal commitment to our nation's security, selflessness and true statesmanship. He would have made an outstanding intelligence chairman, and we still hope he will at some point in our nation's future."....
....Hastings, who came to Congress in 1992, was charged in an FBI bribery sting but acquitted by a federal jury in 1983. Some judicial colleagues said Hastings fabricated his defense, and their allegations led to his impeachment by the U.S. House in 1988. He was removed from the bench by the Senate the following year.
In 1997, the Justice Department found an agent had falsely testified against Hastings, but no action was taken to reopen his case......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022801945.html
House GOP Pushes Floor Vote For Rep. Jefferson Appointment
By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 1, 2007; Page A04
......Pelosi ousted Jefferson from his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee in June after federal investigators raided his Capitol Hill office. In an earlier search of his home, $90,000 was found in a freezer. The money allegedly was accepted in a bribery sting involving an African technology company. Jefferson, who has not been charged, has maintained his innocence and was elected to a ninth term in December after a runoff election........
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Please consider that Cunningham is out of office and in a federal prison, but that he was bribed by Brett Wilkes and Mitchell Wade, and that their "activities" have been tied to the following. <b>If you have a comparable example of democrats described in any way similar to the following, during a "time of war", no less.....please post what you've got to share with us.....</b>
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...1n12lewis.html
By Jerry Kammer and Dean Calbreath
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE / STAFF WRITER
May 12, 2006
WASHINGTON – Rep. Jerry Lewis, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, angrily denied yesterday that he or his staff had engaged in any misconduct in dealing with lobbyists or in “earmarking” federal money.
But a federal government source told The San Diego Union-Tribune that investigators were probing Lewis' dealings with lobbyist and former Republican Rep. Bill Lowery of San Diego. The source said the investigation was a spin-off from the corruption probe of now-imprisoned former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
“Investigators are clearly interested in what role the congressman (Lewis) may have played in steering earmarks to certain entities,” said the source, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity.
The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, which has issued subpoenas, the source said. A second government source confirmed the investigation..........
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070321/D8O07EA80.html
Senator Eyes Another Attorney Departure
Mar 20, 8:06 PM (ET)
By ERICA WERNER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday she wants answers about the departure of the former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, who resigned last October before the Justice Department's dismissal of eight other U.S. attorneys sparked controversy.....
......A Gibson Dunn spokeswoman issued a statement on Yang's behalf Tuesday night. "Debra Wong Yang's decision to leave her post as U.S. attorney to pursue a private practice was entirely her own, and she had many options to choose from. We are delighted that she chose Gibson Dunn," it said.
Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said Yang was not asked to leave.
"Debra Yang was a highly regarded and well-respected prosecutor for the Justice Department," he said.
Feinstein noted Tuesday that there are numerous names blacked out in documents the Justice Department has released in recent days in response to the controversy. Feinstein did not specify what her concerns were about Yang, but she has complained repeatedly that six of the eight U.S. attorneys dismissed last year were in the midst of prosecuting public corruption cases, mostly focused on Republicans.
<h3>About five months before Yang's departure, her office had opened an investigation into ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a lobbyist. Gibson Dunn, the firm that hired her, is also the firm where Lewis' legal team works,</h3> but government rules required that she step aside in that case or any other she was involved with while a government prosecutor.
The Lewis case is connected to the corruption investigation in San Diego that began with the 2005 conviction of former GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who is serving jail time for bribery. Former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego, who was among those dismissed last year, was prosecuting that case. Feinstein contends that Lam's dismissal had something to do with the her role in the Cunningham investigation, though the Justice Department denies it.
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.....In the months after Cunningham pleaded guilty, Lewis resisted an independent investigation of Cunningham's activities on the Appropriations Committee. He said he did an informal review of Cunningham's earmarks over several years and was satisfied that they were all legitimate.
Lewis said in his written statement yesterday that he would “welcome a thorough review of these projects.”
His office did not respond to requests that it release the results of his informal review. Copley News Service requested a list of the earmarks, the companies that benefited from them and the amount of money involved.
A former director of the committee's Democratic staff called on Lewis to be more forthcoming about Cunningham's actions.
“I think he has an obligation to explain what happened here because his committee . . . was used for corrupt purposes,” said Scott Lilly, who left the committee in 2004.
According to government and defense industry sources, Lewis and Cunningham worked together to help Poway military contractor Brent Wilkes as he pursued contracts on Capitol Hill. Cunningham admitted taking bribes from Wilkes, who has been identified as co-conspirator No. 1 in Cunningham's plea agreement.
On April 15, 1999, three months after Lewis was named chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, he received $17,000 in campaign contributions from Wilkes and his associates. At the time, Wilkes was vying for a project to digitize military documents in the Panama Canal Zone, which the United States was about to return to Panama.
“If you can't go to people on Capitol Hill, it's very difficult to remain viable as a government contractor,” said one of Wilkes' associates who contributed money to Lewis at the time. “You have to talk to people. And to talk to people, you have to give money.”
But the Panama project hit a snag. The Pentagon did not want to give Wilkes as much money as he requested.
On July 6, 1999, Wilkes wrote to Cunningham saying “We need $10 m(illion) more immediately . . . This is very important and if you cannot resolve this others will be calling also.”
Wilkes' memo – contained in federal documents accompanying Cunningham's guilty plea – then named two people whose names were blacked out by the prosecutors.
According to military and defense industry sources, Lewis and Cunningham got the money for Wilkes, founder of ADCS Inc., by using their clout to threaten the funding of the Pentagon's F-22 fighter jet.
The jet had been criticized as an expensive boondoggle by budget hawks on Capitol Hill. But it had the support of many lawmakers – including Cunningham – until it reached Lewis' committee.
During a closed-door meeting in July 1999, the committee voted unanimously to clip $1.8 billion from proposed funding for the F-22. The move was led by Lewis and Cunningham, who said at a public meeting that month, “I would not want to fly the F-22.”
“Once Lewis and Cunningham stopped the F-22, they trained the Department of Defense to understand their power,” said the former San Diego defense contractor. “So they were able to tell people that if you want to do any document conversion project, you'd better buy from ADCS.”
A Pentagon official told the Los Angeles Times this week that the Pentagon shifted roughly $10 million to Wilkes' flagship company, ADCS Inc., after the F-22 was threatened.
“The Defense Department spends $1 billion a day, so the (ADCS) contract was like a rounding error,” the official said. “It just wasn't worth putting our big programs at risk.”
Funding for the F-22 was quickly restored. And the next year, when Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon tried to cut F-22 funding, Cunningham went to the floor of the House to call him a “socialist.”
“Our kids are going to die, and it's amendments like this that have stopped our military from surviving,” he said.
Lewis has maintained there is no connection between the F-22 funding cut and aid for Wilkes.
<h3>Since 1993, Lewis has received $88,252 in contributions from Wilkes and his associates. Only two other legislators received more: Cunningham and Republican Rep. John Doolittle from the Sacramento suburbs, both of whom have admitted steering millions of dollars in contracts to ADCS.</h3>
During the same period, ADCS received more than $90 million in federal contracts, most of it through earmarks from the Appropriations Committee.
“From the standpoint of the average American citizen, that smells,” said Ned Wigglesworth, executive director of TheRestofUs.org, a liberal political watchdog group in Sacramento. “It's good to see that federal investigators have broadened the investigation into Lewis. His relationship with Wilkes has many of the same hallmarks that Cunningham's relationship had.”....
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....so it's looking like Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is being protected by the very firm that has hired the former US Attorney who initiated an investigation against him for his Randy Cunningham related activity....and if that is not enough....remember the republican "fixer", the man who lied to the senate judiciary committee in 2001, concerning his role in creating the "Arkansas Project", the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/">Richard Mellon Scaife financed, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.</a> managed plan to eliminate the Clinton presidency....(I covered him in my earlier TFP politics thread:
<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=92438">Are Ted Olson and Al Zarqawi both "Supermen"?</a> .....yeah the "Ted Olson" whose name is mentioned as Gonzales's replacement as Atty. General:
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Administration officials say Gonzales should step down - CNN.com
White House aides say Gonzales hurt himself during testimony Thursday ... One name that consistently comes up is Ted Olson, former solicitor general. ...
www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/20/gonzales/ - Apr 21, 2007 - Similar pages
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Yup.....Ted Olson's here, too....he'll be working with Deborah Yang, at "the firm", to presumably protect "Jerry Lewis, et al":
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http://www.gibsondunn.com/news/firm/...pubItemId=8231
U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang Joins Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles
October 17, 2006
Los Angeles. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Debra Wong Yang, the United States Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, will join the firm as partner in the Los Angeles office.
<h3>At Gibson Dunn, Yang will co-chair the firm’s Crisis Management Practice Group, along with Washington, D.C. partner Theodore B. Olson,</h3> the former Solicitor General of the United States, and New York partner Randy Mastro, the former New York Deputy Mayor of Operations. In addition, Yang will play a central role in the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.
“Debra Wong Yang is one of the most respected U.S. Attorneys in the country. <h3>She has done a remarkable job in leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, which handles some of our Nation’s largest and most difficult cases,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.</h3> “She was selected to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, a small group of U.S. Attorneys that I consult on policy matters, and she served in this and other capacities with great distinction. She is an energetic leader and has an amazing ability to build connections with community leaders at all levels.”....
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and there is "plenty more", over at the "Why did Goss Resign?" thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=104278
....and I posted this, 13 months ago:<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?p=2022717#post2022717">What Are We Going to do About Terrorism?</a>
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http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...7&postcount=51
........Is it "odd" that, if not for a newspaper reporter in San Diego, who "broke" the story that Randy Cunningham was taking massive bribes to sell his influence on Pentagon procurement decisions, to Wilkes and his protege, the now guilty Mitchell Wade, it would still be "business as usual"....Cunningham would still be in congress....pressuring the Pentagon to buy things that it didn't need to defend our country, in exchange for more cash from Wilkes and Wade.
Isn't it odd that the chairman Jerry Lewis of the congressional Defense Appropriations committee, even now avoids launching a formal inquiry into the damage to our defense....in wartime"... that Randy Cunningham actaully cost, or to find if other members of congress were also accepting bribes?
Isn't it odd that the White House <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000058.php">refuses to disclose</a> just what it paid Mitchell Wade's company...with the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701856.html">people's money</a>. for? Or....why <b>Tom Delay or his pastor and former chief of staff, Ed Buckham, won't disclose what influence Brent Wilkes bought with the more than $500,000 that Wilkes paid to Buckham's ASG lobbying entity, which employed Delay's wife, Christine, to not perform a "no show" job.</b>
<b>Did congressman Bob Ney act "oddly"</b>, when he entered praise for Brent Wilkes in the congressional record, oddly reminiscent of a similar action that he performed on behalf of convicted lobbyists Abramoff and Michael Scanlon?
Isn't it odd that two scandals, "Abramoff" and "Cunningham" can involve so many government officials and so much money, with a commonality that much of the money enriched members iof the ruling politcal party and their election campaigns, but almost nobody here talks about them? Is it just easier to chat about a vague "war on terror" that does not change the behavior of those charged by the American people to manage it as quickly, efficiently, and as inexpensively, and...of course,
<b>AS OPENLY</b> as possible, with more serious enforcement of all laws, and with the stiffest possible penalties for those who break the law and weaken our security or are "war profiteers"? Isn't actually undermining the "war effort", a crime that deserves to be examined, discussed, and railed against, more vigoroulsy with the attention and vitriol directed against those who merely ask questions like the ones I am asking, or engage in peaceful protest and dissent as they lawfully conduct themselves as per past constitutionally guaranteed precedent?
Why, then the silence, the acceptance, the lack of curious comment, the lack of outrage, the blind, lockstep, recitation of conservative republican official talking points? Odder still, when we observe that the "support" for failure, duplicity, and by intentional negelect....open, unchallenged and uninvestigated corruption committed by key intelligence, defense, and congressional officials, duing wartime, and at the expense of all of us, even those who once called themselves "small government, "fiscal conservatives"!
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http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...3&postcount=17
From 1991 to 1993, a young lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve was working as a program manager in a Pentagon intelligence office. His name was Mitchell John Wade. His boss, the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, was Duane P. Andrews. Andrews's job at the Pentagon was essentially to serve as intelligence advisor to the secretary of defense. The secretary of defense at the time was someone that Andrews knew well and respected immensely: Dick Cheney.....
.......In 1993, at the end of George H.W. Bush's presidency, Cheney went on to become CEO of the oil services giant Halliburton; Andrews joined the massive government contractor SAIC, where he would rise to become CIO; and Wade, then 40 years old, moved to form his own defense contracting firm, MZM, Inc. But it wasn't until 2002 that MZM would get its first federal government contract: a peculiar one-month, $140,000 contract from the White House, later revealed to be for providing computers, office furniture, and specialized computer programming services to the Office of the Vice President.
<p>Wade's company would later get three more contracts from the White House and tens of millions of dollars in contracts from the Defense Department and other federal agencies, many of them for classified intelligence work. In the summer of 2005, of course, it all began to unravel for MZM, after journalist Marcus Stern of the <em>San Diego Union Tribune</em>/Copley News service noticed that San Diego congressman Duke Cunningham had sold his house to a company that listed as its name a Washington, D.C. street address, 1523 New Hampshire Ave. This was the address of MZM. After an extensive investigation that led to a sprawling federal probe run out of the San Diego U.S. attorney's office (the now-fired Carol Lam), Wade pled guilty last year and is awaiting sentencing on charges related to bribing Cunningham, who himself pled guilty on bribery-related charges and is serving out an eight year prison sentence. In February, three more indictments were issued in the case, this time against a San Diego-based defense contractor and Bush/Cheney Pioneer with whom Wade had closely worked, Brent Wilkes; Wilkes's longtime friend-turned-CIA executive director Kyle Dustin Foggo, who is accused of steering Wilkes CIA contracts and has since resigned; and the nephew of a Greek American businessman who is accused of laundering some of Wilkes's and Wade's bribes to Cunningham......
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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007..._123_28_07.txt
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......Waxman released a letter he wrote to White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolton, wherein Waxman asserted that in July 2002, MZM received a White House contract. The $140,000 contract called for providing computers and furniture for Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
"To date ... there has been no examination of the circumstances surrounding MZM's initial federal contract and the role that White House officials played in the award and execution of the contract," Waxman's letter stated.
In the letter, Waxman asked the White House to provide the documents to the committee by April 6, including:
- all contracts, subcontracts and task orders between MZM and any associated firms,
- all invoices and payments made,
- all reviews of MZM's performance and contacts with its employees and
- communications between MZM, the White House, the General Services Administration and the Departments of Defense and Interior and members of Congress or their staff.
White House officials did not return phone calls seeking comment.....
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....and reconmike.....this is why, if it still isn't clear.....<b>WHY IT MATTERS:</b>
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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002582.php
The Honorable Alberto Gonzales
U.S. Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Attorney General Gonzales:
Last week, Congressman Emanuel sent you a letter requesting that former U.S. Attorney in San Diego Carol Lam be appointed as outside counsel to finish her work on the Duke Cunningham Case. Unfortunately, your office has not yet responded to that letter.
<b>Two days ago, Lam's investigation continued to bear fruit as a federal grand jury charged Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and Brent Wilkes with at least 11 felony counts related to their involvement with Cunningham.</b> As Elana Schor's article in The Hill yesterday points out, "Justice Department officials have praised the Cunningham probe as the linchpin of their growing pursuit of public corruption cases, yet prosecutor Lam is nonetheless slated to step down[Thursday] after the Bush administration cited unspecified 'performance' issues in requesting her resignation late last year. Six other U.S. attorneys, several involved in ongoing corruption investigations, were dismissed at about the same time."
As you know, of those seven fired U.S. Attorneys, Lam was not the only one investigating sitting public officials before being dismissed. For example, Daniel Bogden of Nevada and Paul Charlton of Arizona were dismissed while their offices were conducting probes concerning elected officials.
Schor's article also notes that Deputy U.S. Attorney General Paul McNulty was scheduled to brief members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday with information on the decisions to dismiss the U.S. Attorneys. During last week's public Senate hearing, Deputy U.S. Attorney General McNulty confirmed that Bud Cummins III, the former U.S. attorney for Eastern Arkansas, was dismissed without cause to install Timothy Griffin, a former aide to White House adviser Karl Rove.
Carol Lam's indictments of Foggo and Wilkes underscore the importance of last week's request and the need for an explanation of why these diligent public servants were dismissed. It is vital that U.S. Attorneys be able to prosecute wrongdoing free from political pressure. We are pleased that the Department of Justice has also agreed to brief members of the House Judiciary Committee on the dismissals of Carol Lam and other U.S. Attorneys. <h3>We look forward to further details regarding the date for that briefing and your response regarding the request to appoint Carol Lam as an outside counsel to finish the Cunningham and related investigations.</h3>
Thank you for your prompt attention to these matters. We look forward to hearing from your office.
Sincerely,
Rahm Emanuel
Member of Congress
Howard Berman
Member of Congress
John Conyers
Chairman, Judiciary Committee
Linda Sánchez
Chairman, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
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I've "studied" this "mess" for the last 18 months.....this is a ticking time bomb, and if republicans think that they can "defuse" it, by bringing "Ted the Fixer" in to replace Gonzales, right after he installs the prosecutor, Deborah Yang who was investigating Jerry Lewis, onto Lewis's criminal defense team, consider what "Ted" once told the SCOTUS justices:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...9291-2002Mar20
......a conflicting statement by Solicitor General Theodore Olson to the Supreme Court on Monday has the ring of perverse honesty.
It is "easy to imagine an infinite number of situations . . . where government officials might quite legitimately have reasons to give false information out," the Justice Department's senior trial lawyer said to the justices, who are weighing Jennifer Harbury's claim that she had the right to the truth about the torture and murder of her Guatemalan revolutionary husband by CIA-financed Guatemalan forces in 1993. .......
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/ne...posts?page=181
Mayor Giuliani Annouces Theodore [Ted] Olson as Chair of Justice Advisory Committee
joinRudy2008.com ^ | 3/1/07 | Campaign press release
.....“Ted Olson is a renowned Constitutional expert, one of the very best lawyers in the United States and I am honored to have his support," Mayor Giuliani said. "Judith and I are even more honored by his friendship."......
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UNPLUG YOUR NEW "Express" SCROLL WHEEL, reconmike.....go back to the beginning of this post.....read it slowwwwwly.....note the names tied into this, Abramoff.....Delay....Buckham....Ney....Doolittle....Cheney....Olson....Foggo
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