Seeking Justice in the DOJ

I don't have many Republican heroes, in fact David Iglesias, former U.S. attorney from New Mexico, may be the only one I can think of. Iglesias, one of the eight U.S. attorneys on the DoJ's hit list for lack of "loyalty" to Bush, has not gone gently into that good night. A fighter for justice from way back ( a lot of people may be unaware that in his youth Iglesias was was one of the members of the legal team that was the inspiration for the film A Few Good Men, with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, a case involving the assaulting of a fellow Marine at their base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) Iglesias has been struggling to get to the bottom of what really happened in the 2006 Justice Dept purge. The book he's been working on, In Justice, will be published in June, and Dahlia Lithwick's ( Jurisprudence writer for Slate) review of her draft copy of the manuscript is compelling reading indeed. She takes as her title for the article one of Iglesias' chapter titles: All Roads Lead to Rove. Evidently Iglesias isn't going to let Rove or any of the other players in the firing incident go quietly into the night either. Democracy for New Mexico has several posts and links to a current GOP vote-buying story involving Heather Wilson, a big player in the events that purportedly caused Iglesias' firing. Wilson is now running for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Pete Domenici this fall. If Iglesias can help prevent her from sitting in that seat, I for one will be ecstatic. As Dahlia Lithwick says in the conclusion to her review of Iglesias' book:

A year later, the U.S. attorney scandal still matters—and not simply because it ties Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to brazen efforts to manipulate both laws and legal processes for partisan ends. It also has legs because unlike so many of the Bush administration scandals, the trail neither begins nor ends with top-secret legal memos but with dozens of small e-mails, meetings, threats, and phone calls being investigated at various levels of government. Iglesias' book reminds us that while his former bosses may shred the e-mails, sack the bumblers, obstruct Congress and—quoting Sampson again—try to gum this scandal to death, the truth will come out, eventually. His book is a good start.

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