{"id":4297,"date":"2007-03-20T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2007-03-20T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T22:02:48","slug":"doj-emails-cunningham-compained-about-lam-in-letter-to-doj-just-prior-to-his-guilty-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"DoJ Emails: Cunningham Complained About Lam in Letter to DoJ Just Prior to His Guilty Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybackground.com\/2007\/03\/19\/exclusive-cunningham-complained-about-lam-to-attorney-general-before-he-plead-guilty\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CunninghamLam_NiceTry.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Citizen journalist, Arlen Parsa spent some time pouring through <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4295\">last night&#8217;s document dump<\/a> from the DoJ, and sends us the following today, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybackground.com\/2007\/03\/19\/exclusive-cunningham-complained-about-lam-to-attorney-general-before-he-plead-guilty\/\">link to his exclusive<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The document dump released by the Department of Justice Monday night reveals that Republican Representative Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham complained about Carol Lam to Attorney General Gonzales barely a month before he plead guilty in Lam&#8217;s corruption investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, who by this point was acutely aware that Lam&#8217;s investigation was breathing down his neck, was a co-author of a letter 19 House Republicans sent to the Attorney General complaining about Lam&#8217;s record on prosecuting cases related to illegal immigration. However, at the same time, Department of Justice reports indicate that Lam&#8217;s office was doing a good job prosecuting immigration related cases.<\/p>\n<p>Also: after Lam notified the DoJ that more investigation was expected following the investigation that put Cunningham behind bars for more than eight years, the White House got a letter from the Department of Justice saying there was a &#8220;real problem&#8221; with Lam. A week after the White House was alerted to the &#8220;Lam problem,&#8221; one Republican lawmaker Darryl Issa (R-CA) [from the Congressional district adjacent to Cunningham&#8217;s] stepped up his efforts to smear Lam&#8217;s record on immigration, leaking altered documents about Lam to the Associated Press and appearing on CNN&#8217;s Lou Dobbs Tonight to complain about Lam&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybackground.com\/2007\/03\/19\/exclusive-cunningham-complained-about-lam-to-attorney-general-before-he-plead-guilty\/\">Read a report about this here<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen journalist, Arlen Parsa spent some time pouring through last night&#8217;s document dump from the DoJ, and sends us the following today, with a link to his exclusive&#8230; The document dump released by the Department of Justice Monday night reveals that Republican Representative Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham complained about Carol Lam to Attorney General Gonzales barely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,223],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-dept-of-justice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}