Fired U.S. attorney says colleague told him politics was behind his ouster

[sabra]

Source: mcclatchy dc

WASHINGTON — A longtime protege of President Bush told former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias that he was fired for political reasons and that he shouldn't fight his ouster, Iglesias says in a new book.

"This is political," Iglesias recalls Texas U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton telling him shortly after he was ousted. "If I were you, I'd just go quietly."

Iglesias, a former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, is one of eight federal prosecutors whose firings triggered a yearlong controversy at the Justice Department and led to the resignations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and 11 other Justice Department officials.

Iglesias cites the exchange with Sutton in his upcoming book, "In Justice," as further evidence that he was forced out because Republicans were displeased with his refusal to prosecute Democrats.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing: a U.S. attorney all but admitting that a colleague was being hung out to dry for reasons that had nothing to do with performance or professionalism," he wrote in a draft of the book, which McClatchy obtained.


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[indepat]

1. I'm shocked, utterly shocked

:D

[nightrain]

2. let's not forget who was involved in this as we move into

the elections--Senator (R-NM) Pete Domenici, and his protege Rep Heather Wilson (R-NM01) who is seeking Domenici's seat in the Senate!!!

Wilson has been accused of "buying votes" in a recent Republican ward conventions. (http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/2008/03/more-on-allegat.html#more)

Her Republican opponent, Darren White, is also a rabid Bush supporter. They are involved in a good ole Republican thrashing of each other.

More Republian slime.

There are three good Democratic choices running for that Senate seat, my favorite is Martin Heinrich.

[robcon]

3. Politicians fired somebody over politics!!!! What's next?????

I'm extremely surprised. Not.

[Robbien]

4. The Attorney General Purge case which goes no where

Because all witnesses are hiding behind Bush's executive privilege.

Do you hear any presidential candidate talking about correcting this mess? I don't.

[tom_paine]

5. Confirmation of the obvious. Standard Bushie-Totalitarian Operating procedure.

There are two reasons this confirmation, while nice, is futile:

1) Those of us who know are an incredibly small portion of the Imperial Subjects of Amerika (0.5-2.0%, I would guess, perhaps less), and the other 98-99.5% will never ever EVER be permitted to hear about this on Corporate Media (maybe Page 32 of the Style section to provide a little Plausible Deniability).

2) No matter how much ironclad evidence, no matter how many witnesses could be called, it doesn't matter in the absence of the will to prosecute criminals.

Imperial Amerika is no longer a Nation of Laws. Like it's fellow BushPutinist States, Russia and China, it is a nation of rules the little nobodies have to follow (plus any of the Ruling Classes that dare to oppose Party Power in even th tiniest way) but not the Bushies, Putinists or ChiComs who rule.

Sad but true. Please don't shoot the messenger because the news is bad.

[hootinholler]

6. It's not the ones who were fired that are the problem...

It's the ones that weren't that re the problem. Ask Don Seigelman.

-Hoot