Friday, January 12, 2007

The scandal beneath the scandal

Carole Lam, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego who prosecuted the Cunningham case, is being "axed" to leave her job -- as are, apparently, other prosecutors going after this and similar matters. Lam's sin, it seems, was to keep digging after the Duke went into the pokey: "Lam's office has recently been troubling the CIA and Capitol Hill by pushing for documents related to the Cunningham investigation."

What, in specific, triggered this reaction? I'm thinking Hookergate, which involved the CIA's Porter Goss and an unspecified number of congressmen. But something else might have aroused Lam's bloodhound instincts...

2 comments:

dqueue said...

Gosh, it feels like Brent Wilkes may rank higher than Wolfgang Bohringer in the octopus...

Anonymous said...

is the "something else" besides Hookergate?

at the rate prosecutors are being axed, anyone who voted Dem or suspected of being a Dem supporter/sympathizer might get axed as well since it is well known that anyone working for the CIA who votes Dem (or is found out to have voted Dem) will have a very short career and extremely limited job opportunities like Valerie Plame.