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…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Former Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson on August 11 in Albuquerque.
U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson appeared alongside former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove at an event in Colorado this week, prompting Democrats to criticize Wilson once again for her role in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
The U.S. Justice Department will file no charges in the Bush administration’s firing of U.S. attorneys, the Associated Press is reporting.
The news service is quoting an official close to the investigation who says that prosecutor Nora Dannehy has…
David Iglesias, the former U.S. Attorney from New Mexico, today discussed new rules in put in place by the Obama administration military commissions, The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman reported.
In another New Mexico-themed rebuke of former White House senior advisor Karl Rove’s upcoming book “Courage and Consequences,” Ambassador Joe Wilson blogged at The Huffington Post that Rove’s book “is less memoir than hoax.” Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson,…
Some of the least convincing score-settling in “Courage and Consequences” comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment of U.S. attorneys — the chapter dealing with this is titled “Rove: the Myth.” For…
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the Bush administration should have abandoned the idea of firing U.S. Attorneys in 2008 because they could not count on Republicans to stop an investigation. His comments appear in Esquire’s Meaning of…
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who is now among those prosecuting detainees at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, was profiled in this month’s edition of Esquire magazine. Iglesias spoke about waterboarding (“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen waterboarding, but…
Controversial Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio and former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias are involved in a controversy related to an FBI investigation, Talking Points Memo highlights. Arpaio, known as “America’s toughest sheriff” is currently under investigation by…
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to discuss what was called ”the truth about the lies about ACORN.” ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been the target of a…
Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., had little to say when asked today about two high-profile federal investigations. One is the ongoing investigation into whether any crimes were committed during the process that led to the 2006 firings of New…
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias has responded to GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh’s claims that he took the Republican Party on in Iglesias’ firing by saying Weh’s claims are “a world class display of chutzpah” and that Weh “may not be…
Controversial former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will appear in Hobbs on Sept. 10 and speak at the Hispano Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet, the Associated Press is reporting.
As all regular readers of the New Mexico Independent should know by now, former White House advisor Karl Rove and former deputy chief of staff Harriet Miers gave behind-the-scenes testimony to the House Judiciary Committee. Now, Jason Leopold of The…
One health care bill currently circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives would reimburse doctors for discussing end-of-life decisions with patients. This is what some health care reform opponents are lying about, turning voluntary counseling into what a well-informed former Alaska governor called the “death panel.”
As former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias continues his impromptu media tour following a document dump and the release of House Judiciary Committee testimony by Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, he told Talking Points Memo that he “feel[s] one hundred…
“I didn’t need a state Senator from Roswell, New Mexico opining about who the U.S. Attorney ought to be when this is going to be largely the province of the United States Senator who is going to give us a…
Scott Jennings, a special assistant to then-President George W. Bush — and Karl Rove’s-right hand man — wanted to replace fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias with prominent New Mexico GOP attorney Pat Rogers, who he described as “the dream” candidate. Rogers had aggressively lobbied Iglesias to pursue cases of voter intimidation, which he said was “the single best wedge issue ever in New Mexico.”
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias told Newsweek that the new e-mails released related to the controversial 2006 firings of U.S. Attorneys across the nation, including himself, “There were improper and potentially illegal — as in criminally illegal — reasons…
It isn’t just former GOP Congresswoman Heather Wilson who has her name getting put through the press for the wrong reasons. Former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh has his name in the David Iglesias firing case, the one that state…
