Domenici: I Want My Involvement In The Attorney Scandal To Be Over

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/10/domenici-scandal-over

Domenici: I Want My Involvement In The Attorney Scandal To Be Over

On MSNBC earlier today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) about “the controvesy over the firing of the U.S. attorneys, in particular David Iglesias,” who the senator infamously called soon before he was asked to resign. “Would you testify if called by your colleagues on the Judiciary Committee,” Mitchell asked.

“I wouldn’t testify unless I am supposed to under our rules or unless I have to,” replied Domenici. “From my standpoint, I’m not going to talk about it because I want mine over with, if six senators can pass on it ... It has little or nothing to do with this case,” added Domenici, in reference to the President’s invocation of executive privilege yesterday to prevent his aides from testifying before Congress about the scandal. Watch it:

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As much as Domenici may want to believe that he “has little or nothing to do” with the attorney scandal, in reality, he is central to it.

Iglesias’ name did not appear on the Bush administration’s prosecutor hit list until Domenici talked to President Bush in a call presumably arranged by Karl Rove. Additionally, one of the aides whose testimony Bush is blocking, Harriet Miers, is also implicated in firing Iglesias at Domenici’s behest. On December 7, 2006, the day the attorneys were fired, Miers’s deputy, William Kelley, wrote an email to Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, saying that Domenici’s chief of staff “is happy as a clam” about Iglesias being removed.

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hypocrite.

is serve his sentence after the conviction & I'll be willing to let him off the hook.

RESIGN!

made the damn phone calls then Pete! Sounds like another case of sorry you got caught to me!

What a pack of thieves and liars republicons are.

Sorry, Pete. Not gonna happen.

BED.


MADE.


LIE.


(And that goes for Heather Wilson, too.)

Asshole.

Would he like some cheese with that whine?

The hooker scandal? The missing WMDs? Torture? I can't keep up with them all. We should number them in order to keep track.

This mean, petty man is revered in N.M. to where even the Dems are afraid to stand up to him (wow, Democratic leaders afraid to stand up to powerful republicans---why I've never heard of such a thing-----someday, by the way 'I'll figure out how to insert the sarcasm emoticon)...Even press releases from the party (ours) only claim he and heather Wilson have "changed"... as if they weren't always right wing enablers of the Bush crime family and all the other Republican-neo-fascists over the past decades...I pointed that out to a local Dem official, who more or less agreed with my point, but said he had to be careful not to criticize St. Pete (he actually is referred to that way here!) too much, and alienate independents, conservative Dems, moderate Repubs, whoever. I don't understand this whole fear thing with our party; never will...