As mentioned below, now we've got yet another excuse for why former San Diego US Attorney Carol Lam was fired.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) says the problem was that she wasn't aggressive enough prosecuting lower-level drug cases.

Now, Hunter's rationale for Lam's dismissal is of particular interest because he is among that small group of sitting members of Congress who worked closely with Cunningham on bagging those earmarks for which Cunningham was later sent to the slammer. Hunter has never been directly accused of wrongdoing. But he was deeply tied in to the Wilkes-earmark clique. So there's little doubt he would have felt the heat emanating from Lam's investigation.