Iglesias meets with White House investigators.
Fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias held a three-hour meeting this week with the staff of the Office of Special Counsel, which last month launched “a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.” Iglesias also reveals:
Weeks before the 2006 midterm election, …Iglesias was invited to dine with a well-connected Republican lawyer in Albuquerque, N.M., who had been after him for years to prosecute allegations of voter fraud.
“I had a bad feeling about that lunch,” says Iglesias, describing his meeting at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen with Patrick Rogers, a former counsel to the New Mexico Republican Party.
When the voter-fraud issue came up, Iglesias said, he explained to Rogers that in reviewing more than 100 complaints, he hadn’t found any solid enough to justify criminal charges. […]
Unbeknownst to Iglesias, a few months before that lunch, Rogers and another Republican attorney from New Mexico, Mickey Barnett, had complained about Iglesias at the Justice Department in Washington. The session was arranged with the assistance of the department’s then-White House liaison, Monica M. Goodling, and an aide to White House political strategist Karl Rove, according to e-mails released recently by congressional investigators.
One of those they met with was Matthew Friedrich, a senior counselor to Gonzales. Friedrich would meet again with Rogers and Barnett in New Mexico, where, he told congressional investigators, the pair complained about Iglesias. They made it clear “that they did not want him to be the U.S. attorney…. They mentioned that they had communicated that with Sen. Domenici, and they also mentioned Karl Rove,” Friedrich said, according to a transcript provided by congressional investigators.
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Is it Impeachment, yet?
May 19th, 2007 at 8:05 amWhy are the thugs in our White House?
May 19th, 2007 at 8:07 amBesides underhanded and unprincipled activities to keep Republicans in office, what else does Karl Rove do to get a US Gov’t paycheck? You would think that if the GOP had a message people wanted to hear and follow Rove wouldn’t have to resort to shenanigans to try to keep them in power.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:27 amClearly the Republicans just want fair elections. So why not brag about thier efforts? Why cant Gonzo strut his stuff with pride from the get-go? Why all the humility over protecting the public? What do they have to hide?
May 19th, 2007 at 9:49 amPappadeux’s food sucks.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:01 amI’d expect CONTURDS and Republi-SCUM to plan their dirty deeds there. But, finding fresh seafood or Cajun in the desert is a challenge
in itself.
Flying around the country to facilitate bogus, political prosecutions?
Who Paid?
The Republican Crime Syndicateâ„¢ in action.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:15 amBullies. This all reminds me of high school.
I mean junior high school.
Pathetic.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:56 amFor the latest news, document dumps, email archives, hearing transcripts and other essential materials in the firings of U.S. attorneys, see:
May 19th, 2007 at 10:59 am“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”
I believe that the reason for Bush to ask Gonzales to replace US Attorneys who would not prosecute voter fraud cases with no merit was because it is getting harder and harder for the Republics to steal elections. They need all the help they can get. And they saw their worst nightmare occur in the 2006 election. They had set the bar at 4% for stealing the election. Unfortunately for them the voting came in at 6% and more, thus defeating all their candidates they had set up to have the election flipped. If the fix had not been in at 4%, there would be quite a few more Democrats in Congress and possibly another couple of Senators.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:22 amThe staff of the Office of Special Counsel, or as it’s quietly called the Henhouse’s pet Fox brigade.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:22 amWhy not face the SIMPLE TRUTH and do something about it: Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and all the other war criminals, terrorists. conspirators and stooges for the corrupt business interests that are looting America, are guilty of waging an illegal war and of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Push for the enforcement of any and all available laws to punish these mass murderers. If we fail to execute these vicious war criminals who have so much blood on their hands, we can look forward confidently to the ascension of future mass murderers to the highest positions in our government.
May 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pm