U.S. Attorneys

TPM Muckraker talked to some experts to get their take on the significance of President Obama’s new government transparency orders, and they’re concluding that this might finally allow us to see some key documents that the Bush White House worked mighty hard to keep hidden.
Some of these documents detail high-level executive involvement in the politically [...]

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 [...]

Arthur Davis (D-Al.) made a point at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today that’s been overlooked in the resurfacing of the fired U.S. attorney scandal: What about the federal prosecutors who weren’t ousted?
The Justice Dept. internally investigated how the White House/Justice Dept. decided which U.S. attorneys were considered disloyal to the Republican Party and should [...]

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing now into the U.S. attorney firings. Committee members’ questions to Glenn Fine, inspector general of the Justice Dept., have centered on whether Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, former top White House counsel, will ever talk to anyone about the dismissals (they didn’t cooperate with the IG report).
It [...]