Via Carpetbagger Report comes

That’s according to the Albuquerque Journal (subs. required): At some point after the election last Nov. 6, Domenici called Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president. Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue. The [...]

Via TPM comes this post over at Muckraker: Here’s another new document from the ones released today. And it’s a good one. They are two pages of handwritten notes, apparently taken by Monica Goodling — the now former Justice Department official who’s pled the Fifth. The notes appear to have emerged from a brainstorming session [...]

From Election Central: The DCCC is going up on the air with a second radio ad targeting New Mexico GOP Rep. Heather Wilson for her role in the Attorney Purge. You can listen to it here. Transcript: In Washington Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United States, is testifying under oath about his role [...]

Via Laura Rozen is this depository of documents related to the firings of the 8 U.S. Attorneys.

In a post that reminded me of my recent rant on “Old Media” vs. bloggers and other “amateurs,” Glenn Greenwald shows the incredible turnaround of the Washington Post editorial board: Even more than most national journalists, The Washington Post‘s Fred Hiatt has been a stalwart defender of the Bush administration with regard to the U.S. [...]

The Washington Post reports today on the U.S. Attorney for Montana, Bill Mercer, who is apparently never in his Montana office: His regular absence from the U.S. attorney’s office in Billings has caused severe friction between Mercer and U.S. District Chief Judge Donald W. Molloy, a Clinton appointee. Molloy wrote a letter to Gonzales in [...]

From Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly: Michael Isikoff reports that Alberto Gonzales has wiped his schedule clean and brought the Justice Department to a “state of paralysis” in order to prepare for his April 17 testimony before Congress. Apparently it’s not going well. The article lays it out clearly: At a recent “prep” for [...]

Monica Goodling, an aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, announced her resignation yesterday. Goodling, who was involved in Sen. Pete Domenici’s call to then US Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias, had refused to testify before Congress, utilizing her Fifth Amendment rights. According to the Associated Press (via TPM Muckraker): Monica M. Goodling, the Justice [...]

The Justice Department just can’t catch a break on this scandal. According to TPM Muckraker, the Office of Special Counsel is launching an investigation to see if Iglesias was wrongly fired for his Naval Reserve Duty: When Justice Department official William Moschella was asked why the Department had fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, he told [...]

So, remember the Domenici and Wilson phone calls, where they pressured asked then U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to speed up about an investigation? Well, indictments were finally issued today in the case. I’ve been watching Greeks beat up on Persians, so let’s head to Heath’s place for the latest: Former Senate President Manny Aragon was [...]

NMFBIHOP has a thorough examination of the group behind that Republican attack ad I mentioned yesterday: But first, let’s take a look at this group, the New Mexicans for Honest Courts.  No, I have not heard of them either. Let’s see their PAC reports.  And here is a more detailed look at  the PAC Report [...]