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Second Republican lawmaker calls for ouster of Gonzales. North County (Ca) Times:
Update: California reader C writes, "Wonder just how involved Issa was in the atty firings. I think he is in CYA mode and is trying to distance himself from the issue. In this article of the North County Times, Issa admits to having many one-on-one conversations with Lam. Hmmm....did he call her? How many times? ... I find it odd that Congressfolk would call and discuss anything other than whether they have all the manpower and resources they need. Somehow I think Issa was on the WH team to keep the US Attys prosecuting the right stuff. Also, I heard on a news show that the budgets of both Carol Lam's office and the Los Angeles attys office were cut after Lam started prosecuting Cunningham. What other offices were cut I wonder and was that purely political?"U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday he was "outraged" that executive branch officials recently gave a congressional hearing misleading and inaccurate testimony based on information that both the Department of Justice and the White House knew to be untrue.
"We can soft-pedal it a lot of ways, but Congress was lied to," Issa, R-Vista, said in a Wednesday phone interview from his Washington office.
Issa's 49th District covers large parts of North San Diego County, including Oceanside and Vista, as well as portions of Southwest Riverside County.
He said that if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had any role in false information being given to Congress, "he should not be able to continue in his job." [...]"I am concerned that we have lost trust in the attorney general's office," Issa said. "Everybody who is part of us getting false testimony must go, up to and including the attorney general himself."