CNN does BIG REPORT on Foggo Indictment but Never Mentions Prosecutor Lam who was Fired

[KoKo]

by Bush! Incredible!

Made me sick...THEY REPORT...but they LEAVE OUT THE MAJOR CONNECTIONS...ALWAYS.

CNN does report...but not giving background that Carol Lin the CA Prosecutor is now fired by Bush from futher investigation and that Bush Bot Crony will take over the lingering investigation into Foggo's connections with Porter Goss, Prostitutes and Congress for Hire.

They report about Foggo and say he did influence peddling with Govt. Contractors...yet fail to make the connections that there average viewers would even understand or care about.

CNN/NYT's/WaPo/MSNBC/USA TODAY...supposedly MAINSTREAM are NOTHING BUT TOOLS OF THE REPUGS! Why don't they just admit that the are the "Smooth Arm of Fox News Networks" and be done with it. :puke:

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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/playing_politics.html

Playing Politics with Prosecutors

February 6, 2007

Disturbing reports surfaced late last year that U.S. Attorneys from around the country were forced out of their positions and replaced without Senate approval under an obscure provision of the PATRIOT Act amendments passed in a rush as the Republican-controlled 109th Congress passed from the political scene.

Members of the new 110th Congress, led by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Mark Pryor (D-AR), are already working to push legislation that will reinstate former rules allowing the Justice Department to only temporarily appoint U.S. Attorneys without Senate confirmation. In addition, the Senate Judiciary Committee will meet today to discuss whether the Justice Department is politicizing the hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys.

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Scott Lilly last month examined the circumstances under which these U.S. Attorneys were replaced, showing the provision Sens. Leahy, Feinstein, and Pryor are trying to reinstate is a necessary check on presidential power. His column remains very germane today today’s hearings, which is why reproduce it today on the front page of our website:

Blood on the Courthouse Floor

By Scott Lilly

Frederick Black had served for more than a decade as acting U.S. Attorney to the territory of Guam, having been appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1991. In 2002 he was directing a long-term investigation into allegations of public corruption in the administration of Gov. Carl Gutierrez—a probe that had already produced numerous indictments of Guitierrez’ cronies. But a day after a Guam grand jury issued a subpoena demanding records from the Guam Superior Court that documented payments to Republican lobbyist extraordinaire Jack Abramoff, Black was relieved of his position.

In an article headlined, “Bush Removal Ended Guam Investigation,” The Los Angeles Times reported that “a U.S. grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.” With at least six prominent federal prosecutors recently removed from office, many of them managing large scale public corruption cases, many are wondering if history is not repeating itself.

Among those fired were Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney for San Diego, who last year won a conviction against Congressman Duke Cunningham (R-CA) in the biggest bribery conviction in history, and Paul Charlton of Arizona, whose office is investigating charges involving land deals and influence peddling against of Republican Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ).

Also stepping down is the U.S. Attorney for Nevada, Daniel Bogden, whose office last year won corruption convictions against two Clark County, Nevada Commissioners and may be looking into campaign law violations by at least one member of the state’s Congressional delegation. Next door in New Mexico, David Iglesia is being asked to leave after winning convictions in the past year of two former New Mexico State Treasurers.

Then there’s northern California’s U.S. Attorney, Kevin Ryan, who has not made his mark by ferreting out wrongdoing by public officials but is certain to have stepped on the toes of a number of their most generous contributors with his high profile investigations of back-dated stock options given to numerous executives in major corporations. He has also announced that he is leaving his job.

What does U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have to say about all of these departures? He told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week:

What we're trying to do is ensure that for the people in each of these respective districts, we have the very best possible representative for the Department of Justice. I would never, ever make a change in a United States attorney for political reasons or if it would in any way jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it.

Yet Congressman Daryl Issa (R-CA), who has himself been dogged by ethical issues, appeared to have a good deal of inside information on the Lam firing. He has made public statements that the Justice Department decision was based on Lam’s failure to prosecute enough immigration cases. He also told to The San Diego Union Tribune:

She serves at the pleasure of the president. She won't always remember that, but that's the reality. She's made it abundantly clear by other actions she's not pleased to be leaving before the end of this administration.

But was the emphasis that each of the fired U.S. attorneys placing on public corruption—which clearly came at the expense of other activities—out of line with official departmental and administration policy? Not according to an address made by Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller in 2002 and subsequent publications by the FBI, in which corruption was declared a top priority of the Bureau, ranking only behind the prevention of terrorist attacks, counter intelligence, and the prevention of cyber attacks against American computer networks.

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How far this web of corruption extends into the government is a question that can only be answered by a competent, unbiased, and energetic investigation. It now appears that effort will be left to whomever the White House and the Justice Department name as Lam’s successor. There is ample reason for concern on that score.


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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/playing_politics.html

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Carol Lam? Yes, she should have been mentioned prominently.

(I called her Carolyn Tam earlier...:blush:)

[KoKo]

2. You are Correct! Carol Lam!

[KoKo]

3. Kick because the Media still Sucks...and we need to keep on top of it! n/t