Friday, May 4, 2007

Harriet Miers focused on Debra Yang.

Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Ms. Lam and most of the other purged prosecutors were fired on Dec. 7. Ms. Yang, in a fortuitously timed exit, resigned in mid-October.
Ms. Yang says she left for personal reasons, but there is growing evidence that the White House was intent on removing her. Kyle Sampson, the Justice Department staff member in charge of the firings, told investigators last month in still-secret testimony that Harriet Miers, the White House counsel at the time, had asked him more than once about Ms. Yang.

He testified, according to Congressional sources, that as late as mid-September, Ms. Miers wanted to know whether Ms. Yang could be made to resign.

Yang's resignation, as has been discussed here before, found her land at the powerful Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher firm with a nice bonus. We don't know if they enticed her to leave public service or recruited her after the resignation, but as Cohen says, these questions should be asked under oath.

Well well With Ms Yang working at the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher with a nice bonus and the firm defending Mr Lewis, I suppose she will tell all the evidence against Mr Lewis. So he should get off nice.

It must be nice to be Republican, have a brain like a Karl Rove, a nominess for Supreme Court who loves like a dove but is really a vulture while smiling, and an attorney general who cant remember, and a war with the insurgents "in their last throes" for 3 years.

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