I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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Karl Rove has admitted that he forwarded complaints to the Justice Department about David Iglesias, the United States attorney in New Mexico, who says he was fired for political reasons, the New York Times reports.
Rove, the former political adviser to President George W. Bush, told the Times that he played a small role in the controversial 2006 firing of nine US Attorneys, but said he passed on to the White House complaints about Iglesias that came from the office of former Sen. Pete Domenici.
From the story:
Mr. Rove’s e-mail messages showed he received a number of messages with reports of political corruption cases and complaints about prosecutors, sometimes through direct contacts with staff members for legislators like Pete V. Domenici, a Republican who was a senator from New Mexico.
Mr. Domenici and his aides complained repeatedly about David C. Iglesias, one of the prosecutors who was dismissed.
“I was the recipient of complaints,” Mr. Rove said, referring to Mr. Iglesias, “I passed them on to Harriet Miers to pass on to the Justice Department.”
Mr. Rove said he did not personally verify the criticism but said if true, “it’s really troublesome.”
Iglesias had been the subject of criticism from New Mexico Republicans who believed he did not aggressively pursue allegations of voter fraud.
As Rove told the Times:
He also said he had expressed an interest in the issue of voter fraud as a policy matter but did not ask the Justice Department about specific cases, although he sometimes passed on reports of voting irregularities to the White House counsel’s office.
“I am concerned about voter fraud,” he said, noting that it was “far more of a problem and widespread” than has been acknowledged. “It always mystified me why the issue was not a higher priority for the Justice Department. I never got a satisfactory answer.
