Was Carol Lam fired by Gonzales and Co. because of ongoing investigations into GOPers?

Question

It certainly appears that it did. I remember when Duke Cunningham was going down and the outcry from Bushies that he was "innocent". Well, he was guilty. Carol Lam prosecuted and convicted Duke and she was going after Dukes friends including another GOP politician. Shouldn't those efforts now be redoubled to convict them?

Blame Clinton is not an acceptable excuse, and ALL justices were purged, which is customary at the beginning of an administration. Clinton was investigated to the extreme. Now it is time to put Bushies under oath and investigate them. That is the way it works.

Answer 1

Seems like shades of the "Saturday Night Massacre", where Nixon had Bork fire Cox after the two guys ahead of Bork refused to do Tricky Dick’s dirty work. Nixon wanted to get rid of Cox because Cox had subpoenaed the tapes, and Nixon knew that the tapes would reveal that he had ordered the Watergate burglary and then directed the cover-up. On Feb 13th, Carol Lam announced that Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes have been indicted for, among other things, fraud against the US government. I bet our boy Dusty has all sorts of interesting stories to tell about how no-bid black-ops contracts were awarded by the CIA during his tenure there.

Hearings & subpoenas will be flying for quite a while. Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans, and 298 involved Democrats. The main source of this partisan tilt was a huge disparity in investigations of local politicians, in which Democrats were seven times as likely as Republicans to face Justice Department scrutiny.

DOJ fired eight or ten prosecutors because they wouldn’t play ball. Doesn’t that imply that the prosecutors who were not fired kept their jobs becuase they allowed political pressure to subvert the integrity of their office?

Answer 2

That's the current theory.

I work in the San Diego criminal defense legal community, and everyone I've talked to on both sides of the aisle had nothing but good things to say about Lam's competence and integrity.
And when even defense attorneys are saying that the federal prosecutor has integrity and does her job fairly, that pretty much defines the point.

Answer 3

I am sure that all the firings were done for political reasons, that is why Gonzales is on the hot seat, but it is my thought that it is Karl Rove that is behind it all and he is the one that really has to go from the Bush white house staff. I think he is probably more responsible for the corruption then anybody even the corrupt president.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It appears that's exactly why she was fired. This is going to produce a firestorm of Congressional inquiry and it should.

Answer 6

Of course.

Answer 7

What about the ones that Reno fired?