Oh surprise, surprise. After Carol Lam was fired last December, she had a conversation with DOJ official Michael Elston. When Lam asked to be able to stay on briefly to oversee certain key cases. Elston told her she had to be gone in “weeks, not months” and that the order for her firing was “coming from the very highest levels of the government.”
‘Very highest levels of the government’. I don’t think Monica Goodling or Kyle Sampson count in that category, do they?
Also of interest, given the DOJ’s cover story for Lam’s firing, Lam called Deputy AG McNulty and asked why she was being fired. According to Lam: “He responded that he wanted some time to think about how to answer that question because he didnât want to give me an answer ‘that would lead’ me down the wrong route. He added that he knew I had personally taken on a long trial and he had great respect for me. Mr. McNulty never responded to my question.”
I guess no one had clued McNulty in on the ‘immigration enforcement’ talking points.
