"Special prosecutor says Gonzales’s firing of US attorney was not a crime" by New York Times | July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — A special prosecutor has decided not to bring any criminal charges in connection with the firing of a US attorney in 2006 in a political controversy that dogged the George W. Bush administration until its final days, the Justice Department said yesterday.
The special prosecutor, Nora Dannehy in Connecticut, spent nearly two years investigating whether the firing of the US attorney in New Mexico, David C. Iglesias, broke the law and whether Justice Department officials lied to Congress about it.
I'm sure Mr. Iglesias will be happy to hear it.
Dannehy concluded that while the politically motivated firing of Iglesias violated Justice Department principles, it was not a crime. She also concluded that misleading statements made by the former attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, and others at the Justice Department did not rise to the level of a crime, according to a summary of the investigation sent to Congress.
Didn't they SWEAR to TELL the TRUTH before Congress?
The decision completes the last in a string of investigations into the Bush administration’s 2006 firings of nine US attorneys, including Iglesias. The controversy led Democratic critics to charge that the Bush administration had politicized the Justice Department, and it spurred the resignation of Gonzales in 2007....
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Also see: Democrats to Cover For Rove
What a bunch of GAS, 'eh, Americans?
