What are they finding about our U.S. Attorney?
From: Sampson, Kyle
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:25 PM
To: Mercer, Bill (ODAG)
Cc: Elston, Michael (ODAG)
Subject: San Diego Immigration Enforcement
Importance: High
Bill, this relates (certainly in the AG's mind) to the email I just sent to Elston (cc to you) re our pressing need to, in the very short-term, generate some deliverables on immigration enforcement, and in the long-term, insulate the Department from criticism by improving our numbers. AG has given additional thoughts to the SD situation and now believes that we should adopt a plan -- something like the following:
- Have a heart-to-heart with Lam about the urgent need to improve immigration enforcement in SD;
- Work with her to develop a plan for addressing the problem -- to include alteration of prosecution thresholds; additional DOJ prosecutors; additional DHS SAUSA resources; etc.
- Put her on a very short leash;
- If she balks on any of the foregoing or otherwise does not perform in a measurable way by July 15 [my date], remove her.
- AG then appoints new USA from outside the office.
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Also, on page 48 there is a mail from Mercer to Sampson about the replacement of USA's, mentioning a plan pushed by "WHCO" in 2004.
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E-mail from Paul Charlton to Bill Mercer:
"Bill - media now asking if I was asked to resign over leak in Congressman Renzi investigation. -Paul"
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Internal emails from Paul Charlton to Bill Mercer (from 12/13-20/2007 about what to say to media and the "way forward." (No discussion, just references to talking by phone.) Dan Bogden instructed to call Bill Mercer at Las Vegas office on 12/19/2006. (Lots of duplicate messages.)
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Two internal emails asking Bill Mercer to call Dan Bogden (January 3 & 5 2007)
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Internal email from Regina Schofield to Bill Mercer asking for advice on how to keep Margaret Chiara from calling. Item 2 is redatcted. (January 9, 2007)
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Bill Mercer asks Linda E. Long to print out David Iglesias's extremely gracious good-bye letter. Iglesias's letter gives his new email address DCIGLESIAS@earthlink.com (internal email)
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Bill Mercer's appt. book for June 5, 2006, showing only a meeting between Mercer, Kyle Sampson, and Jeff Taylor with the title (Immigration Enforcement/San Diego USAO
Page 20
Totally unidentified printed notes
Goals for Mercer's firing calls to Bogden and Charlton (basically, be nice to them but let them know it's now someone else's turn), critique of the effect of the calls (basically, we were too nice).
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Page 41, in an email (June 8, 2006) from Bill Mercer to Michael Elston, Mercer seems to be making a joke about firing Lam for incompetence: "What that Carol Lam can't meet a deadline or that you'll need to interact with her in the coming weeks or that she won't just say, "O.K. You got me. You're right. I've ignored national priorities and obvious local needs." Etc. Mercer says something about "these humorous missives."
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Part 11-5 page 5 in an e-mail between Bill Mercer and Kyle Sampson. Responding to Sampson's suggestion that somebody "woodshed" Carol Lamb, or that the AG order 20 attorneys dedicated to only immigration cases, Mercer says, "There are good reasons not to provide extensive resources to SD Ca."
Does the whole performance hand-waving tie into them trying to strangle C.Lam's corruption investigation?
That's where his name shows up from what I can tell.
