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Sampson Admits Lam Was Never Confronted on Immigration
Here it is, under questioning by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kyle Sampson admits that Carol Lam was never told of the Justice Department's disaffection with her performance on immigration prosecutions, the supposed reason for her firing.
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"I meant to do it, but oops! I forgot."
March 29, 2007 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which means Lam's record on "immigration cases" was a mere pretext for her termination.
March 29, 2007 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good memory!
March 29, 2007 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boy, doesn't Feinstein know that being telepathic was in Lam's job description?
Jeeez!
March 30, 2007 1:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rep Darrell Issa was in charge of swiftboating Carol Lam on these fake immigration concerns, just as Issa was the bankroll behind getting rid of Governor Gray Davis in California.
Somebody get Issa under oath.
March 30, 2007 1:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe they expected Lam to be...psychic?
Bushiemer's Disease(TM).
March 30, 2007 3:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kyle Sampson is a physical, emotional, and intellectual clone of a Rove figure. I am continually struck with how smart, devious, bland, puffy, and amoral he appears. This is the pup who is talked about as Rove's successor. Sampson knows nothing that is gained from life experience - he is a human machine with vast computing powers. But he seems to have no 'rudder'. It is chilling to watch him speak about the attorney firings.
March 30, 2007 4:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I try hard not to engage in "personal attacks' but having watched all the Segretti/Attwater/ Rove dirty trickster raise up in the GOP in the last thirty odd years -its really very hard for met to watch Sampson & not think now there goes the prototype fascist brown shirt for the American Nightmare in the 21st Century.
We the People need to make sure to put these brownshirts in jail-at the very least.
"When fascism comes to America it will be carrying a Bible, and wrapped in our Flag," Upton Sinclair,
Sic'um & Get'um Sen Schumer & Sen Durbin !
March 30, 2007 5:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe if he'd kept a proper file, like a competent executive, he would have remembered to call her. It's easy to lose track of important tasks if you just toss lists into a folder in your bottom drawer.
He must have lost the piece of paper with "To Do: Call Carol Lam to woodshed her on immigration. Make sure to record it for use later as a pretext when we sack her."
March 30, 2007 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
The manager of a McDonalds always checks the written record to ensure a to-be discharged employee has been officially warned twice.
Gonzalez signed off on Lam's firing with no prior notice.
Criminal incompetence is the most sympathetic characterization of this kind of conduct.
March 30, 2007 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
The previous comment highlights how any performance evaluation system works in a multi-location operation whether McDonald's or DOJ district attorney offices. Two of the Senators on the Judiciary Committee are already intimately familiar with the DOJ system because of their own work and have briefed others on the Committee as to just how irregular the whole Gonzales/Rove/Sampson procedure was.
I suspect that deeper more detailed analysis of the list of eight versus the formal evaluation system would further undermine Gonzales in any pretense that he was managing DOJ and not just working as Rove's tool.
Consider this: Sampson, McNulty and Moschella give long pious speeches about how important it is that DAG's follow White House priorities, but they give no feedback to Senate approved appointees short of dismissal. To me this looks like gross incompetence and fostering partisan prosecutions at the same time. The "performance evaluation system" at DOJ under Gonzales is just a "quaint" relic of former times. All personnel decisions are made independent of the system for strictly partisan reasons -- hence no documentation.
A follow up question for Senator Feinstein's staff: were ANY of the DA's confronted with feedback that they were not following Department priorities?
March 30, 2007 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I watched the Watergate Hearings in their entirety and loved them as political theater. This is shaping up as being just as delicious. I can't wait for Bush's "I am not a crook!" moment. What will it be?
Security code: shame. This is just to obious. It is a damn shame these guys are still breathing.
March 31, 2007 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
I watched the Watergate Hearings in their entirety and loved them as political theater. This is shaping up as being just as delicious. I can't wait for Bush's "I am not a crook!" moment. What will it be?
Security code: shame. This is just too obvious. It is a damn shame these guys are still breathing.
March 31, 2007 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink