U.S. Attorney David Iglesias

"WITH this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters." The rest is here Judging from this article, this is going to be one of the biggest scandals to hit the White House, Since the Nixon era, and the fallout could be tremendous. Other Blogs talking about this: Macsmind, The Mahablog, Booman Tribune, Riehl World View, The Washington Note, The Sideshow, Bench... Read Full Story

"Where this goes is going to depend on where the Democrats take it," said Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond. "And that's going to depend largely on what the U.S. attorneys have to tell them - what they give the Democrats to work with." Read Full Story

Attorney David Iglesias claims that he was fired for resisting political pressure to rush a corruption probe reportedly focused on Democrats.  He cites phone calls from two Republican members of Congress as evidence of a Republican plot to harm Democratic candidates.  Read Full Story

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"New Mexico needed a new U.S. attorney," Pete Domenici concluded in a written statement. Read Full Story