Hers is just one example of why the perfermonce issue was not the whole issue and may just be the cover story.

They couldn't decide how to handle her performance issue until one day after she notified the Justice Dept of her intent to issue search warrants to Wilkes and Foggo as part of the Cunningham investigation?

"Please call me at your convenience to discuss the following," Sampson wrote, referring to "[t]he 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."

from: [link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801263.html|http://www.washingto...007031801263.html]

If she had been on the list for 2 years, what did Sampson mean by the 'real problem'? Wouldn't he have just said that the perfermonce issue is the issue we need to talk about? It begs to be investigated further.