David Iglesias

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 Republicans wish would just go away.

Former George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove spoke to the House Judiciary Committee in July and now the committee has released the transcripts of his testimony as well as that of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers.
So we at NMI are looking for your help at looking through the transcripts and [...]

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.

It appears that a documentary about the U.S. attorney scandal that plagued the Bush administration is going to be quite revealing — or salacious, depending on your point of view.

Former White House deputy chief of staff and current Fox News commentator Karl Rove once again failed to appear to give testimony in front of a House committee. Rove was scheduled to appear in front of the House Judiciary Committee to discuss his role in the firing of U.S. attorneys.

In an Albuquerque Journal Op-Ed today, Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Brian Colón says political motivations are at play in the federal investigation into whether there was a pay-to-play deal between the Richardson administration and CDR Financial.

The full version of The Associated Press story detailing a subpoena of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici’s records is now available.
It looks like Domenici isn’t the main target of the investigation by federal prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy — even if he might be eventually implicated in some sort of wrongdoing.

The David Iglesias firing is the scandal that just won’t go away for former Republican U.S. Senator Pete Domenici. The Associated Press is reporting that Domenici has had his records subpoenaed by federal investigators in relation to the firing of Iglesias in 2006.

Talking Points Memo’s Muckraker reported that former Sen. Pete Domenici is the focus of a federal grand jury probe into the firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias in 2006.
Muckraker reported that “according to legal sources familiar with the inquiry,” Domenici and former senior White House aides are being investigated. There could be some heavy [...]

Talking Points Memo’s Muckraker spoke to a lawyer who worked for President Bill Clinton about an executive order signed by President Barack Obama. The executive order, signed on Wednesday, was regarding presidential records.
Neil Eggleston, a White House counsel under Clinton, told TPMmuckraker that in his view, the Obama White House issued the order with specific [...]

Talking Points Memo (TPM) looked into former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ new job of prosecuting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, aka Gitmo.
TPM noted that Iglesias isn’t on the job because of anyone from President Barack Obama’s staff or Obama himself. His appointment is actually a couple of weeks old.
Of course, it is moot — at least [...]

It’s getting ugly out there, people. “Obama has embraced Richardson’s approach to governing, and so even without Richardson, the president-elect is welcoming corruption and corporate influence into his administration,” says an opinion piece posted today on dcexaminer.com. The piece argues that one of Richardson’s favorite terms — public-private partnership — “is often a euphemism for [...]

Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias watched Patrick Fitzgerald with a sense of what could have been Tuesday. The hard-charging Fitzgerald is the U.S. attorney whose investigation led to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich earlier today.
Iglesias, as many know, wound up at the center of the U.S. attorney firings that cost former U.S. Attorney [...]

It is something that Republicans, including a number of those in New Mexico, wish would just go away. According to Public Record writer Jason Leopold, a grand jury has issued subpoenas in a probe into the firing of U.S. attorneys.
In late September, the U.S. Attorney General appointed Nora Dannehy as a special prosecutor looking into [...]

Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers refused to say Thursday if a private detective who visited the addresses of two of the 10 Albuquerque voters cited at a news conference last week about voter fraud was working for the GOP.