Ex-U.S. attorney speaks out for 'In Justice'

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Source: UNION-TRIBUNE

Fired by the White House with 6 others on same day

As a Navy lawyer, David Iglesias handled a case at Guantanamo Bay that sparked the movie “A Few Good Men,” famous in pop-culture lexicon for the line Jack Nicholson snarls: “You can't handle the truth.”

Iglesias is pretty sure he can handle the truth. He just doesn't know if he'll ever get it.

Eighteen months ago, he and six other U.S. attorneys – including Carol Lam in San Diego – were fired in an unprecedented midterm reshuffling that led to congressional hearings and criminal investigations.

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“I want to know the actual on-paper reason why nine of us were pushed out,” he said. “No president in U.S. history has ever fired nine of his own this way, for partisan political reasons.”

Politics, he admitted, were always part of the equation. U.S. attorneys are appointed, and Iglesias' political party (Republican) was as important to his selection in 2001 as his pedigree: military veteran, Hispanic, evangelical.

“But the Justice Department has always been the untouchable department,” he said. “Politics stopped at the door. Whether it was a Democratic or a Republican administration, people understood that criminal prosecutions have to be based on evidence and the law, not politics.”

Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20080623-9999-1c23iglesias.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. I really think the Justice department should be part of the Judicial branch

not the executive branch.

Precisely because it should never be corrupted by politics.


It is time to remove the zampolits, the political commissars, from the Justice Department.

[Doctor_J]

2. The Judicial Branch is no less succeptible to corruption than the Executive

Do you really want Fat Tony, Slappy, and Roberts hiring all the USA's???

[Doctor_J]

3. Iglesias for Asst AG in charge of racketeering & corruption

AG Edwards should give him the resources and charge to get all the way to the bottom of this travesty, and put a lot of people in prison.