This gem out today highlights what appears to be a lot of subpoenas that will be issued soon here in San Diego for issues related to the Duke Cunningham investigation. There was an article a day or two ago about Carol Lam looking to get out a subpoena for Brent Wilkes before she leaves office on February 15th. The gist of this sounds like her office has also been talking to Duncan Hunter and his staff too, so, one wonders if he and others will also get the word soon too! Perhaps Bushco just PO'd Ms. Lam enough so that she ramped up the schedule to get the goods on these bums!
Folks, if Carol Lam can get these the likes of Wilkes and perhaps even Duncan Hunter indicted before she leaves office, might I make a big suggestion to the Democratic Underground community to deliver on one of our past traditions! If she can get these done (or even if she just gets Wilkes indicted), perhaps we can do the "room of flowers" treatment for Carol Lam like the day or so before she's supposed to leave office! I'd volunteer to help orgnize getting the flowers and delivering them here if the rest of the community can start pitching in to get the batches of roses.
I think this is a great opportunity for us to show that we care about having decent people (whether they be Democrat or Republican) serving in office doing their job, and to thank her for her service in doing the RIGHT thing! I would bet that would do more to help us reach out and attract more from the independents, etc. out here, especially the large Asian American community here in San Diego which in the past has been apolitical in many elections, but I'm told is very upset with her being forced to leave!
What do you all think?
If we do do it, we don't have much time (only about three weeks). I'm hoping we can get some tangible news in the next coming day or two of Wilkes going down. I'd also like to giver her the opportunity to do what she's going to do first, so it doesn't look like she's being influenced by our gestures to do what she's about to do. Let's all get the radar up and try to quickly get the news out as soon as any subpoenas/indictments come out!
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012307/subpoenas.htmlSubpoenas raise new questions
By Susan Crabtree
A flurry of subpoenas issued late last year to three powerful House committees and two staffers are raising new questions about House policies on document retention as well as internal House rules governing response to subpoenas.
A U.S. district court in San Diego sent subpoenas to the House Appropriations, Armed Services and Intelligence committees late in the year, according to notices in the Dec. 27 and Jan. 4 editions of the Congressional Record.
Elizabeth Phillips, an Appropriations staffer, and Rebecca Kuhn, who formerly worked as ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s (R-Calif.) executive assistant, were also subpoenaed to testify, according to letters they submitted to then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), as required by House rules.
The subpoenas originally carried a Jan. 11 deadline, but the assistant U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego has extended it to Jan. 31 to give the new Democratic majority and new leaders of the three committees time to “compile documents that are responsive to the subpoena,” said Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
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Josh Holly, a spokesman for Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, said that his boss, then-Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), and top panel aides also were in the process of cooperating with prosecutors and were even setting up a time for the U.S. attorney to meet with Hunter and committee staff when the subpoena came.
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