Curious Phrasing

The Kansas City Star (a McClatchy newspaper) is reporting this morning that "Lam notified the Justice Department on May 10, 2006, that she planned to serve search warrants on Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, who'd resigned two days earlier as the No. 3 official at the CIA."

As you might recall, on May 11, 2006, Kyle Sampson, then Gonzales' chief of staff, sent an e-mail to deputy White House counsel William Kelley, asking Kelley to call to discuss "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam that leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her 4-year term expires." Curious phrasing.

I wonder if Mr. Sampson would be willing to talk under oath about why Justice and the White House had a problem with Ms Lam and not with her high profile Republican targets--Dusty Foggo or Rep. Lewis. It is pretty obvious that Sampson's solution to the Lam problem was to fire Lam.