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 for my removal.”
That’s pretty much the same thing Iglesias, once a rising star in the state Republican Party, said to NMI’s Heath Haussamen.
Iglesias also told the magazine that the revelations “confirm[ed] my worst nightmares.”
Iglesias says that the new documents show that Rove was more than a mere “conduit” as he called himself in House Judiciary Committee hearings last month.
Republican Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee, however, said that such talk is unfounded. “Despite all evidence to the contrary, House Democrats continue to falsely accuse former Bush administration official Karl Rove of wrongdoing in the dismissal of several U.S. Attorneys,” Smith said in a statement to Newsweek.
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