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Carol Lam, the former United States attorney for San Diego, is smart and tireless and was very good at her job. Her investigation of Representative Randy Cunningham resulted in a guilty plea for taking more than $2 million in bribes from defense contractors and a sentence of more than eight years. Two weeks ago, she indicted Kyle Dustin Foggo, the former No. 3 official in the C.I.A. The defense-contracting scandal she pursued so vigorously could yet drag in other politicians.
In many Justice Departments, her record would have won her awards, and perhaps a promotion to a top post in Washington. In the Bush Justice Department, it got her fired.
-- Adam Cohen for The New York Times
This has to do with the recent news/scandal of Bush firing an unprecedented number of U.S. attorneys for what looks like purely political reasons. We are so used to this that I was going to just scroll over it, but decided that it is worth being clear why this Administration has been so bad for Americans, or at least for the non-born again, non-Republican Americans.
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Carol Lam, the former United States attorney for San Diego, is smart and tireless and was very good at her job. Her investigation of Representative Randy Cunningham resulted in a guilty plea for taking more than $2 million in bribes from defense contractors and a sentence of more than eight years. Two weeks ago, she indicted Kyle Dustin Foggo, the former No. 3 official in the C.I.A. The defense-contracting scandal she pursued so vigorously could yet drag in other politicians.
In many Justice Departments, her record would have won her awards, and perhaps a promotion to a top post in Washington. In the Bush Justice Department, it got her fired.
-- Adam Cohen for The New York Times
This has to do with the recent news/scandal of Bush firing an unprecedented number of U.S. attorneys for what looks like purely political reasons. We are so used to this that I was going to just scroll over it, but decided that it is worth being clear why this Administration has been so bad for Americans, or at least for the non-born again, non-Republican Americans.
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Date: 2007-02-26 01:51 pm (UTC)From:I met him a few times as an undergrad student and I remember thinking this man feels like "The Klan." I mean, I don't know that he was Klan, but he exuded pure racism and hatred towards me, a stranger to him.
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Date: 2007-02-26 04:55 pm (UTC)From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham