Political interference? What political interference?
McClatchey nails Karl Rove in yet another lie:
Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the state’s U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state.
In an interview Saturday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event that month.
“He’s gone,” Rove said, according to Weh.
This was one of the firings Rove called “normal and ordinary.”
Well, let’s be generous. Perhaps he wasn’t lying. Maybe in the Bush Maladministration its is “normal and ordinary” for the head of a state political party to ask for, and get, the head of the chief federal law enforcement officer in the district.