Nearly four years after signing off on the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agrees it was a bad move. “We should have abandoned the idea of removing the U.S. attorneys once the Democrats took the Senate,” Gonzales is quoted saying in Esquire magazine’s January issue.
Shortly after President George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, Gonzales and his staff — working with the White House — identified top prosecutors who should be replaced. At least one, New Mexico’s David Iglesias, was chosen because some GOP lawmakers didn’t think his office had aggressively targeted Democrats in an election year.
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