Think Progress: Was Carol Lam Targeting The White House Prior To Her Firing?

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/19/carol-lam-white-house

Was Carol Lam Targeting The White House Prior To Her Firing?

Referring to the Bush administration’s purge of former San Diego-based U.S. attorney Carol Lam, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said recently on the Senate floor that she was let go because she was “about to investigate other people who were politically powerful.”

The media reports this morning that among Lam’s politically powerful targets were former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo and then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA). But there is evidence to believe that the White House may also have been on Lam’s target list. Here are the connections:

– Washington D.C. defense contractor Mitchell Wade pled guilty last February to paying then-California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes.

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To re-cap, the White House awarded a one-month, $140,000 contract to a criminal contractor who never held a federal contract. Two weeks after he got paid, that same contractor used a cashier’s check for exactly that amount to buy a boat for an imprisoned congressman at a price that had been pre-negotiated.

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[jaysunb]

1. What's that I smell ?????

it smells rather "fishy." wouldn't you say ??? :evilfrown:

[elehhhhna]

13. mendacity

What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?

Big Daddy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

[originalpckelly]

16. Smells like a gun that's just been fired. What is that called again?

:evilgrin:

[donkeyotay]

2. Must be another coincidence.

Wow, MZM had a meteoric rise, from tricking out Dick's office to contracting with cifa to spy on us.

[deminks]

3. BINGO.

I have no other words at the moment

[SharonRB]

4. Thom Hartmann is talking about this now

I love the smell of impeachment in the afternoon.

[Hissyspit]

5. Thanks for the 'heads up.' n/t

[Justice]

6. I am thinking Lam was the target and the others were fired as a distraction

They selected the others based on who people might like to replace for political reasons if they had a choice.

I bet the reason it is so hard to figure out the origins of the story is that they want to keep this out of the light of day. Imagine though, you were fired as collateral damage, and then under pressure from questioners they had the nerve to suggest you failed to do your job.

[cascadiance]

14. If she helps us brind down Chimperoom, we need to get her more flowers!

[Jackpine Radical]

22. But remember that the Guam USA firing long predated

Lam, and was connected to Abramoff, who had his own WH connections. I think that the Puggies were so dirty that they had to head off a whole bunch of investigations. I also bet that a lot of investigations were dropped on orders from Way Up There by the compliant 85 who kept their jobs.

[Justice Is Comin]

7. Sampson sent an EMAIL to the deputy White House counsel

the day after she issued subpoenas to the #3 highest ranking official in the CIA, tied directly to Cunningham, and asked him to call to discuss


"The Problem" we have with Carol Lam.

It don't get no closer to obstruction of justice than that. :popcorn:

[nashville_brook]

17. word.

[Frustratedlady]

8. But look at what she got in return...

Isn't she the one who got a job and $1.5M incentive? Won't she be a lawyer on the other side of the case she was on before she was fired? Who, Lewis...Foggo? I read something on it yesterday and have just now been able to push my lower jaw back in place from the shock. Shock, I tell you!

On that note, I wonder if Pretty Boy Santorum's new job was also landed with a little help from the Good Ol' Party? They're going to wear their coffers out.

[The Doctor.]

10. No, that wasn't her.

But I wouldn't be surprised if she received a similar offer.

[July]

12. That wasn't Lam.

There was a previous thread about this.

Editing to add that it's in a thread in GD:P started by babylonsister. Sorry, I'm computer illiterate, so I can't link it for you, but I read it earlier today.

[Frustratedlady]

18. Well, darn! So much for memory.

Thanks for straightening me out. I'll search for it.

[Jackpine Radical]

23. No. That was Yang, not Lam.

[jaybeat]

9. Yeah, baby!

I'm sorry, but connecting the dots doesn't get any easier than this!

Although MZM had no experience with government contracts, the General Services Administration in May 2002 placed the company on a list of approved information technology service providers, a key step for the company to get business from federal agencies.

The first contract, worth $140,000, came from the White House — to provide office furniture and computers for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Two weeks later, on Aug. 30, 2002, Wade purchased a yacht, later christened "Duke-Stir," for $140,000, according to court documents. Cunningham used the yacht, docked at the Capital Yacht Club, as his home in Washington — and the scene of parties for lobbyists and others.

The money and gifts MZM gave Cunningham were a small price to pay for the ultimate prize. In September 2002, the General Services Administration signed a so-called blanket purchase agreement with MZM totaling $250 million over five years.

Lots more dirt here.

Turn on the lights and watch the rats scurry!

(But first, make sure you're in a comfy chair!)

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[SharonRB]

11. I'm buying stock

in Orville Redenbacher.

[Faryn Balyncd]

15. Like Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" - - U. S. Attorney Purge Will End with Bush Fall.....

[caligirl]

20. USA Yang is now working for the defense team defending Lewis,

after it had been her job to investigate him for corruption. They got a USA to help them keep this guy from ever standing trial and connecting him to the WH. I hope Bush falls as well. former solicitor general Olson( Bush Repub team) works there as well.)

[faithnotgreed]

19. kicking

[caligirl]

21. another thread same topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3170418