We already knew that Michael Elston, chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, weren’t best buds. Their acrimonious phone calls over her December 2006 firing as U.S. attorney for San Diego are well known, but according to the DOJ Inspector General’s report issued today, the two butted heads as early as October 2006, over the “deselection” of a young attorney for the Justice Department Honor’s Program.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=176244