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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
Wiley
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0470261978
EAN: 9780470261972
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice
Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of
seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited
public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to
any of the Bush administration's other political debacles.
David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now
he tells his story. Iglesias has long served in the Navy as part of the JAG
corps. One of his earliest cases, about an assaulted Marine
in Guantanamo Bay, became the basis for the movie A Few Good
Men. When Bush chose him to become the U.S. Attorney for New
Mexico, it was a dream come true. He was a core member of
Karl Rove's idealized Republican Party of the future --
handsome, Hispanic, evangelical, and a military veteran. The
dream came to an abrupt end when Senator Pete Domenici
improperly called Iglesias, wanting him to indict high-level
Democrats before the 2006 elections. When Iglesias refused,
the line went dead. Iglesias was fired just weeks later.
First, he was devastated. Then, he was angry. Now, he is
speaking out. Iglesias recounts his interactions with Bush, Rove, Alberto
Gonzales, and other key players as he takes readers into his
time at the Justice Department to reveal what top Republican
officials said and did, and how they subverted justice.
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