Via TPM. Here’s the Associated Press version: Retiring Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., created an appearance of impropriety when he called a federal prosecutor in New Mexico to inquire about the timing of corruption indictments, the Senate ethics committee said Thursday. The committee criticized Domenici in a letter to the senator, but it recommended no punishment. [...]

As this article in The Hill makes clear, the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006-07 has disappeared from the front pages since Alberto Gonzales resigned as US Attorney General last year. The article asserts that investigations into the firings will bring a renewed focus on the scandal, and, of course, New Mexico plays front-and-center: [...]

A reader just sent this link to a video interview that David Iglesias, former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, did with Truthout. I’ve not watched it yet, but consider this an open thread to comment on the video. What do you think?

It looks like LP has been sifting through the latest DOJ document dump: Yet another set of e-mails relating to the firing of the US Attorneys has been released by the DOJ. Included were some e-mails relating to David Iglesias.  The interesting of which was the “draft talking points” on why he was fired. Still [...]

According to TPM Muckraker, the House Judiciary Committee has approved immunity for Monica Goodling, the former Alberto Gonzales aide many think can answer a whole bunch of questions regarding the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys: The House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 32-6, just authorized a subpoena for Monica Goodling’s testimony and an [...]

I’m heading to a Town Council meeting, but I just saw this over at Think Progress: Tonight on MSNBC, fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias revealed new key details about the Official of Special Counsel’s (OSC) probe into Karl Rove and other White House officials reported today by the Los Angeles Times. Iglesias said that on [...]

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo reminds us about the big picture: But let’s not get distracted by Alberto Gonzales. He’s just a cog. In almost every case, what we’re talking about here is Gonzales’s willingness to take orders from the White House — most importantly from Karl Rove and President Bush — on firing [...]

From TPM Muckraker: Gonzales could not recall details about his conversation with Karl Rove about voter fraud, although he testified that he did have such a conversation. He said that it covered three jurisdictions — New Mexico, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. He could not recall when or where or how it had occurred, only that it [...]

With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifying this morning, it’s good to remember just how far the Bush Administration will go (and has gone) to politicize arms of the federal government. I’ve written about this before, but McClatchy brings some new information to the forefront today: For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department [...]

The House Judiciary Committee, which was set to vote on immunity for Monica Goodling this morning, has delayed the vote until next week, according to TPM Muckraker. Here’s the statement from Committee Chair John Conyers: “At the request of our Ranking Minority Member, Lamar Smith, I have announced a one-week delay in the Committee vote [...]

Via TPM comes the news at the Politico: The Senate just adopted a resolution (S. Res. 153) stating that “for matters before the Select Committee on Ethics involving the preliminary inquiry arising in connection with alleged communications by persons within the committee’s jurisdiction with and concerning David C. Iglesias, then United States Attorney for the [...]

Paul Kiel, who has been nailing the US Attorney purge story for TMP Muckraker, has a lenghty piece online regarding the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division: Over the past six years, the Bush administration has aggressively reshaped the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Many career analysts and attorneys have either been transferred or driven out; their [...]