US Attorneys - more email evidence of DOJ lie

Didn't see a diary on this particular new email from Friday.

truthout has some new info gleaned from Friday's document dump and reported by Arlen Parsa.

Tuesday 27 March 2007

   According to emails released by the Department of Justice late Friday evening, DOJ officials tried to manufacture public reasons for firing several US attorneys late last year.

Here is another piece of obvious evidence that the "soft on immigration" line was a lie - a piece of spin is floated in an email in November:

A November email between Public Affairs Director Tasia Scolinos (a lead spokesperson for DOJ), and vice presidential assistant Catherine Martin offered a suggestion of how to explain the firings of three US attorneys. "The one common link here is that three of them are along the southern border," Scolinos suggested after reviewing a list of six US attorneys the administration was planning to fire. "You could make the connection that DOJ is unhappy with the immigration prosecution numbers in those districts."

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After Lam was fired, the explanation the administration put forward was that her record on immigration was indeed to blame. But newly released documents show that the Department of Justice was prepared to back Lam up in her fight against Congressman Issa at a time when immigration was a major political issue. The department had prepared statistics demonstrating that immigration-related prosecutions had gone up under Lam's tenure, to counter the media fallout from the altered document Issa had leaked.

   Emails between key Justice Department officials show that they had clearly taken Lam's side in the matter.

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