Official: Bush relayed criticism of Iglesias to Attorney General

[deminks]

Source: AP

(AP) - President Bush took concerns about former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last October, Kyle Sampson told congressional investigators over the weekend.

Sampson was Gonzales’ chief of staff.

Not long after the October conversation between Bush and Gonzales, Iglesias’ name appeared on a list of seven U.S. attorneys the administration would oust on Dec. 7. An eighth prosecutor was dismissed earlier.

Read more: http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=31669&cat=NMTOPSTORIES

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Smirky lied.

[Greeby]

1. I did not have misleading relations with those facts

:eyes:

[Subdivisions]

14. Damn you!

I just spewed soda all over my monitor!

[understandinglife]

2. # 2 ...

Peace.

[ClassWarrior]

3. ~pop!~ fizzzzz...

:party:

NGU.

[frogcycle]

11. I know! I know !

never gargle underwater!

[youngdem]

4. Bush did more than that. He talked with Sen. Domenici on the phone

about a political firing of a US Atty because the Atty didn't seek purely political prosecutions to damage the Democrat and assist the Republican running for office. The week before Bush spoke with Pete, Iglesias isn't on the firing list. The next week - there he is on the list to be fired.

This is the basest corruption of law enforcement a president can possibly engage in.

Sad such corruption has to fight for coverage among all else that is wrong in Bush's America.

[LaStrega]

17. Agreed.

"Sad such corruption has to fight for coverage among all else that is wrong in Bush's America."

Here here ... that's what's blowing my mind. I'm thinking *this is huge* while collectively the mainstream media places their heads firmly in the sand.

[krkaufman]

19. Don't ya know... it's just political spectacle. Nothing to see. Move along.

(pretty much exactly what I've heard Dobbs, and others, "reporting")

[Tin Man]

5. #6

:popcorn:

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. How many of you are getting this horrible suspicion, that the GOP

was getting strong enough, so that a Republican with a pesky neighbor problem was just one donation away from making life miserable for his neighbor?

[frogcycle]

10. yep

I was asking myself earlier - why did domenici even think he could demand to have this guy fired?

they must have had some great times talking in private about how they had everything all sewed up, were capable of anything they wanted - how many of them, for example, have heard details of how the elections were stolen? they were so emboldened as to
have the minions start demanding their piece of the action

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. We need a Department of homeland security for Democrats who

feel they've been dirty-pooled by Republicans.

[krkaufman]

20. Well, whatever is uncovered...

... know that most of the political appointments are still in place, and they *have* stacked the courts. We have a long way to go (to get back to a healthy govt).

[deminks]

7. Here are some of the Smirk's past statements

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=663265&mesg_id=663265

President Bush, at a press conference in Mexico, March 14, 2007:

I specifically remember one time I went up to the Senate and senators were talking about the U.S. attorneys. I don't remember specific names being mentioned, but I did say to Al last year -- you're right, last fall -- I said, have you heard complaints about AGs, I have -- I mean, U.S. attorneys, excuse me -- and he said, I have. But I never brought up a specific case nor gave him specific instructions.

(snip)

Dana Perino, on March 13, 2007, according to the AP:

"At no time did any White House officials, including the president, direct the Department of Justice to take specific action against any individual U.S. attorney."

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Bingo!

[rateyes]

9. I hope this comes out in tomorrow's hearing...

if the chimp doesn't get impeached for this, he won't get impeached. Interfering with justice for political gain...people understand that.

[Morgana LaFey]

12. The hearing is postponed to Thursday, I think it is. nt

[deminks]

13. Here is a McClatchy link with more details

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17087965.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation

WASHINGTON - New details emerging from Justice Department interviews and e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and perhaps President Bush were more active than they've acknowledged in the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys, lawmakers said Monday.

Gonzales will be under pressure to explain those contradictions when he testifies Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his role in the firings. The hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, but lawmakers delayed it after a shooting spree Monday at Virginia Tech left at least 33 people dead, including the gunman.

The attorney general also faced more pressure after a group of conservatives that includes former Reagan administration Justice Department official Bruce Fein sent a letter Monday to Bush and Gonzales calling for the attorney general's resignation "for the good of the country."

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, told congressional investigators on Sunday that Gonzales remembered talking to Bush last October about concerns with then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico.

[Senator]

16. Yep. He just "relayed." And Karl was just a "conduit."

It's not like anybody would consider acting on anything they say, right?

Who could imagine that they'd ever be, you know, resposible for anything?

Time to invoke the blessed words of Saint Ronald:

"I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages fire US Attys to steal elections. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

And append the post-2000 corallary:

"But either way, it's not like the DC Dems are going to DO anything about it. They don't even stand up to our war crimes. So what's a little dishonest "gumming to death" of their pointless investigations."

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[Kool Kitty]

18. Karl is a conduit, all right.

A real sewer pipe full of shit.