{"id":1636,"date":"2007-04-25T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/probe-looks-at-roves-involvement-in-iglesias-firing\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T20:21:00","slug":"probe-looks-at-roves-involvement-in-iglesias-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/probe-looks-at-roves-involvement-in-iglesias-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe looks at Rove’s involvement in Iglesias firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Karl Rove<\/a>, political adviser to President Bush<\/a>, is coming under increasing scrutiny for actions that include his role in the firing of David Iglesias<\/a>, New Mexico<\/st1:state>\u2019s former U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> attorney. <\/p>\n

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The Office of Special Counsel<\/a>, a federal investigative unit, has begun a far-ranging probe into the firing of Iglesias, White House e-mails and efforts to keep Bush appointees on message, according to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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None of that is, necessarily, improper. It\u2019s how it was done that matters. Iglesias has alleged that he was fired for refusing pressure from two members of Congress to speed indictments in a public corruption probe to sway voters in the November 2006 election.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Iglesias told MSNBC\u2019s Hardball with Chris Matthews<\/a> on Tuesday that he filed a complaint with the OSC on April 3 against Rove and others in the administration alleging a violation of the Hatch Act<\/a>, which prevents employees from doing political work and protects them from being pushed to do political work while on the job.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the office is looking into the creation of a special e-mail system installed at the White House and other offices by the Republican National Committee<\/a> as a way to avoid public records requests. It\u2019s also probing a Power Point presentation a Rove aide made to the General Services Administration this year. The presentation detailed battleground House and Senate races in next year\u2019s election and, allegedly, the head of the non-partisan GSA urged workers to \u201csupport our candidates,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n

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The central question is whether Rove and his staff exerted improper political influence over government decision-making. And, the Times reported, the investigation is noteworthy because the OSC has never conducted such a far-ranging probe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will take the evidence where it leads us,\u201d Scott J. Bloch, head of the OSC and a Bush appointee, told the Times. \u201cWe will not leave any stone unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karl Rove, political adviser to President Bush, is coming under increasing scrutiny for actions that include his role in the firing of David Iglesias, New Mexico\u2019s former U.S. attorney. The Office of Special Counsel, a federal investigative unit, has begun a far-ranging probe into the firing of Iglesias, White House e-mails and efforts to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}