Former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias was interviewed in GQ. Don’t know what’s going on? Here’s that mag’s intro: Last December, U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, along with seven of his colleagues, was “asked” to resign. The move was a head-scratcher: Only ten US Attorneys had been fired mid-term since 1982—and of those ten, [...]

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, aside from the ethical questions raised by the U.S. Attorney scandal, a side effect has been a window into the way the Bush administration operates. What I wrote at the time: This scandal has been emblematic of the entire Bush years. That’s why this is so important. The [...]

Over at Hullabaloo, we see a little more info on some radio ads that are hitting the waves here in the Land of Enchantment: Well it looks like the Rovian character assassins have decided it’s time to go after the US Attorneys. Here’s a new attack ad playing on New Mexico radio stations. The ad: [...]

That’s what Michael Isikoff is reporting today: New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici’s chief of staff sent a cryptic thank-you note to Karl Rove just as the senator was recommending replacements for David Iglesias, the fired U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to internal White House and Justice Department documents. “Thanks for everything,” Domenici chief [...]

Via Josh, this KOB-TV report, part of a larger AP story on the situation: Additionally, Goodling was involved in an April 6, 2006, phone call between the Justice Department and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., who had complained to the Bush administration and the president about David Iglesias, then the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque. Domenici had [...]

Clay Bennett makes the case (as he usually does) easy to understand:

With Sen. Pete Domenici dipping below the 60% approval mark (for the first time!) in a recent poll, it looks like the scandal is making traction in th Land of Enchantment. As I mentioned last night (and as Josh Marshall added) the scandal has been representative of the Bush administration’s entire term in office: making [...]

In a follow up to my earlier post, I wanted to link to this piece by Josh Marshall: We know that Republican members of Congress sought to pressure the prosecutors in question to push these indictments. And we know at least in the case of David Iglesias in New Mexico that Sen. Domenici’s (R-NM) complaints [...]

Let’s begin with a look at what Kevin Drum said: They’ve now had nearly two months to come up with a simple, clear, understandable explanation for why they chose those eight to fire but not the others. So what is it? And why has it taken such an interminable amount of internal chaos to come [...]

Clay Bennett on the Justice Department and Purgegate: Meanwhile, Josh Marshall has the latest, including a link to this WaPo article: The conflict between documents released this week and previous administration statements is quickly becoming the central issue for lawmakers who are angry about the way Gonzales and his aides handled the coordinated firings of [...]

According to the New York Times (hat tip to Josh Marshall), the guy who orchestrated the US Attorney purge for the Justice Department, Kyle Sampson, resigned yesterday: The role of the president and his advisers in the prosecutor shakeup is likely to intensify calls by Congress for an investigation. It is the worst crisis of [...]

So good, I’m just going to copy and paste the whole thing: It’s remarkable. The Bushies quietly got a shiny new Patriot Act power to fire and replace U.S. Attorneys without Senate approval, so they went ahead and used it. Then they got called on it. So how did they react? Well, they could have [...]