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Posted on 09/30/2008 7:46:44 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
A Justice Department report released Monday concludes that Sen. Pete Domenici was the "primary factor" in the firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias in New Mexico, and that Iglesias was not dismissed for poor job performance as some top department officials claimed.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced the hiring of a special prosecutor to pursue potential charges against former Justice Department officials and others involved in the firing of Iglesias and eight other U.S. attorneys.
The Justice Department report indicates that special prosecutor Nora Dannehy of Connecticut might also seek to determine whether Domenici or Rep. Heather Wilson, both New Mexico Republicans, illegally pressured Iglesias to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats before the 2006 general election.
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In a statement to the Journal, Rogers — who met with Bush administration officials to complain about Iglesias' job performance in 2005, especially his failure to prosecute voter fraud — said the investigation and subsequent report were flawed.
"The internal DOJ "investigation" has not included any effort to obtain the testimony or documents of assistant U.S. attorneys who complained to the Department of Justice about the shortcomings of Mr. Iglesias," Rogers said. "The DOJ has declined other and repeated opportunities to receive evidence that Mr. Iglesias should have been replaced much earlier."
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From the article linked below: "Rowland's demise was triggered by a federal investigation into corruption, and the media's role has been that of a shill for the Feds. The investigators leaked information to the press in an effort to increase pressure on Rowland, information that was gathered in a secret grand jury probe.
With or without the media's intense coverage of Rowland's misdeeds, he was going to eventually end up in federal court. The media quickened his demise, but did not trigger it.
This is another democrat/media attempt to steal the election with dirty tricks by bringing up old accusations.
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He is on the way out. Maybe they are looking for the Casey option?
So let me see if I have this right ... Senator goes to President says he has good cause, vote fraud not being investigated, asks President to fire US Attorney. US Attorney who works at the pleasure of the President is fired. What’s wrong here?
Probably what is wrong is Bush should have fired all US Attorney’s when he took office, like Clinton did. Compassionate conservatism bleagh, wretch ... ugh.
Wanna expand on “Casey Option”?
You remember William Casey?
What in particular are you thinking of?
Something like this? "The objectivity, professionalism, and integrity of the Central Intelligence Agency were compromised by Casey's attitude and behavior in connection with the Iran venture.
To a large degree, the CIA's top professionals were dragged against their better judgment into supporting a questionable venture conducted by NSC staff who lacked competence and expertise in covert operations. At Casey's insistence, two persons -- Ghorbanifar and Secord -- were placed in key roles, although Agency leaders considered them to be unreliable and unfit for such important and sensitive assignments. As a result, key Agency officials felt obliged to adopt a cynical see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, report-no-evil posture."
I was being sarcastic. A lot of people commented that the only reason Casey took such heat during the Iran Contra issue was because he was dead by then and made for an easy scapegoat.
Although dead Casey still confessed to Bob Woodward.
Lol. That was pretty funny
Oh...I see....I wasn’t following your chain of thought. Pete doesn’t deserve having a long distinguished career besmirched by a bunch of hateful burecrats!
I agree with you there. Pete has been a great asset not only to New Mexico, but to the Nation as well.
Sorry for being obscure, but when you work with TS you can get away with it. It’s not too often that one of us trips up the other and we both live in a world of eternal sarcasm.
Who me? The fair haired boy with the light of truth shining from his eyes?
Oh, that's right. Just like this picture of you when you were younger.
You ba$tard! LOL!
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