We know from the Plame case that John Ashcroft was regularly receiving updates on that investigation until he recused himself.

The reason for the updates? Because it was "standard practice" for the DOJ to update management/leadership on "major developments" in cases.

I think that Lam's impending actions of delivering subpoenas/indictments to the CIA and Brett Wilkes would have been a "major development" that DOJ leadership would have been appraised of.

Sampson is obfuscating.

Trust but verify. Who said that? Does what any Republicon say jive with the written record? Republicon's take everything a Republicon says at face value EVEN THOUGH the written record contradicts EVERYTHING they say. Bush or anyone in his cabal CANNOT be taken at face value. The swaggering SOBs must be held to account. Only the Democratic congress can do that. Republicons won't.

amm2000: Go ahead. Let us know what you come up with.

Sampson leaves a couple doors to drive through in his response here, not the least of which are, "there was never any connection *in my mind* between ..." and that immigration was not the sole reason for Lam's dismissal.

Is it just me or does this Sampson guy look like George Costanza?

Things get too "inside baseball" for the average citizen to be able to follow in these Washington scandals.

Two simple facts need to be driven home again and again: (1) Arlen Spector slipped a change into the Patriot Act that allowed the Bush administration to replace US Attorneys without oversight. (2) All the US Attorneys are Republicans, so no one can claim this is a partisan witch hunt.

MUCH MUCH bigger than Watergate

Bet on it.

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Have agree with daCascadian. Watergate was a warm-up act. This is the drum solo and pyrotechnics display.

Someone had better go to jail over this. Corruption of law enforcement for political purposes is a very, very serious issue.

It's The Rule Of Law. Repeat this statement as needed.

So Carol Lam is working on a major public corruption case, making great headway in putting corrupt Republican officials in jail. Next, she issues search and seizure warrants for another Republican figure, and it's looking like she may be onto something that could seriously damage people high up in the Republican party.

Meanwhile, Justice has decided that these cases aren't at all important, but the fact that she's not prosecuting enough immigration cases IS. So let's just have her drop this unimportant corruption stuff and get someone in there who can focus on more important matters.

And we're supposed to buy this crap? This truly is worse than Watergate. Heads--big, fat, bald Baby Huey-lookin' Texas heads--are gonna roll...

My favorite statement was when Sampson said, "There was never any connection in my mind." There might have been a connection, but it wasn't in his mind. It was somewhere else.

Does ANYBODY believe Sampson? This is ridiculous!

What is the deal with Specter? Didn't someone on HIS staff slip into the Patriot Act the line about no Senate confirmation required for interim federal Prosecuting Attorneys? So why is he all hot and bothered? He's just a slimeball--I don't get it!

another impressive Bushie, where do they find the rats? Around the cheese.

Idiots. All of you.

You'd think a bunch of left-wing conspiracy theorists would know better than to believe everything they see on TV or read in the newspaper. The truth is out there...but you putzes are never gonna find it.

Oh, and why are you pulling my name into this?

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