TPMMuckraker Pat Rogers: August 2009
David Iglesias
Iglesias: "I Feel One Hundred Percent Vindicated"
Zachary Roth | August 13, 2009, 10:05AM
David Iglesias has reacted with a combination of satisfaction and indignation to this week's release of documents on the U.S. attorney firings.
"I feel 100 percent vindicated," Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, whose dismissal was the most controversial of the bunch, told TPMmuckraker in an interview.
Topics: David Iglesias, Harriet Miers, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Pat Rogers, U.S. Attorneys
David Iglesias
Rove Aide Longed to Replace Iglesias With GOP Lawyer Who Helped Get Him Fired
Zachary Roth | August 12, 2009, 11:25AM
After firing David Iglesias as U.S. attorney for New Mexico, Karl Rove's top aide longed to replace him with a Republican party activist who had helped agitate for the firing in the first place, newly released documents reveal.
In early January 2007, several weeks after the firings had been carried out, the Albuquerque Journal reported, based on a press release from New Mexico senator Pete Domenici, that there were four leading candidates for the newly vacant post.
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