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Scoop Link: Rove Was Asked to Fire US Attorney
SCOOP LINK: Rove Was Asked to Fire US
Attorney
By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
Saturday 10 March 2007
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031107Z.shtml
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16872058.htm
Washington - 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.
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