David Iglesias

Breaking news from The Washington Post:
The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and transcripts of closed-door House testimony by [...]

I just got off the phone with David Iglesias, a former U.S. attorney and newly named Guantanamo Bay prosecutor, who discussed the fate of the Gitmo cases now that President Obama has announced that he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials.

“It’s unclear right now,” Iglesias said about whether his new [...]

If President Obama is drafting an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials, does that make fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ new gig as a Gitmo prosecutor irrelevant?
If the Gitmo prosecutions get moved from military jurisdiction to federal courts, it would seem that Iglesias’ [...]

Of the nine dismissals in the U.S. attorney scandal, the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Atty. David Iglesias was probably the most blatantly partisan.
A Justice Dept. inspector general report released last week concluded that Iglesias was forced to leave because he didn’t pursue public corruption and voter fraud cases that New Mexico Republicans wanted [...]