David C. Iglesias: Dangerous New Turn in Justice Department Investigation



Last week brought a dangerous new turn to the on-going United States Attorney and Justice Department disaster. Based on the evidence, career, non-partisan investigators recommended the appointing of a special prosecutor to determine whether criminal laws were violated in my ouster and that of my colleagues. No longer just a civil matter to blithely ignore, this ominous development could result in current and high level officials being indicted for crimes. I suspect the special counsel will "follow the emails" in the way that "follow the money" brought down Nixon's men during Watergate.

The Justice Department's independent watchdog offices, the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility, finished the definitive investigation about the firings, stating that U.S. Attorneys may not be removed for an "illegal or improper reason." I was not disappointed or surprised by the findings contained in its blistering report which I cooperated with fully. Every reason given for my ouster was examined and rejected as "disingenuous after-the-fact rationalizations" by former Justice Department personnel, thus sounding the death knell to my alleged "performance-related" problems. More importantly, the firings of my colleagues and me "severely damaged the credibility of the Department and raised doubts about the integrity of Department prosecutive decisions" according to the investigation. Several Republican officials took key roles damaging America's premier crime fighting organization.

The 392-page report described a "fundamentally flawed" process of termination, one in which politics were allowed to overrule the historic independence of U.S. Attorneys. Pat Rogers, the New Mexico Republican committeeman, despite his incessant drone of criticism, curiously refused to cooperate with the Justice Department investigators, as did Senator Pete Domenici, his chief of staff Steve Bell, former White House Advisor Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, and former DoJ official Monica Goodling. The Attorney General, Michael Mukasey called it straight, the removals were "haphazard, arbitrary and unprofessional". He further stated the reputations of the terminated US Attorneys were "unfairly tainted by the removals and their aftermath."

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"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell

USDOJ: Office of Professional Responsibility: Investigative Reports

you can find the report here

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"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell

This one is going to rock the republicans world

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"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell

yeah, this pretty much crushes Bush's chances for reelection.

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"Now don't touch the knobs now, we're going to have some fun around here"-peter wolf

Obama still sucks! Nothing can change that.

George Bush sucked our rights right out of the Constitution, and no on the right seems to care. McCain will continue. He has to to protect the previous crooks from being exposed.

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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." A.E.
Push a liberal hard enough, and he will clean out the temple.

yawn

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

Overly dramatic. For a retired Marine, you sure are a drama queen.

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"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the United States was too strong."

President Ronald Reagan

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism”

Barry Goldwater

Probably a retired Marine can see what another retired Marine saw.

Old Gimlet Eye up there sussed it out years ago.

If you want a nation of laws then you'll ensure that no-one is above the law and no-one, regardless of power of office, can use the law and that power for their own personal or partisan ends.

If you want a nation ruled by a King who wields personal power then you will support what happened in NM and you will cede the power of the people to the ruler.

I think you're going backwards but if that's what you want, so be it.

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I've seen the wild horses, I've heard the bull roarers

Wow--I don't think even WE have anyone that idealistic. OK Maybe one or two but most accept that there can never be total equality no matter how hard we stive for it. With all these claims of martial law and losing our civil rights etc etc. I can't think of a thing has changed as far as I and the feds go. We still have nothing to do with each other.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

An Australian knows our history better than some Americans.

Smedley Butler not only won 2 Medals of Honor and wrote the book, War is A Racket.

He also prevented an attempted coup by some rich old bankers to depose FDR and impose a pro Nazi Government.

You might want to look up who those industrialists were.

I'm no Smedley Butler, but I also believe in this country as a free country where rich and poor and even the president obey the laws.

Fuck your drama queen remark. We are closer to losing our freedoms than ever before and this time not from an external enemy.

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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." A.E.
Push a liberal hard enough, and he will clean out the temple.

You're delusional. The new pres and congress can correct anything the find objectionable. Are you particpating from a federal prison ?

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

We keep asking for that list of rights we lost, no one seems able to provide one.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

The only people that routinely ignore our laws are democrats. Ya lets elect another to the white house.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)