{"id":1722,"date":"2007-05-15T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/deputy-u-s-attorney-general-quits-over-controversy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T15:09:00","slug":"deputy-u-s-attorney-general-quits-over-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/deputy-u-s-attorney-general-quits-over-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy U.S. attorney general quits over controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Deputy Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McNulty\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McNulty<\/a> is resigning, making him the highest-ranking Bush Administration employee to leave over the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> attorney controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It was McNulty whose comments really caused the situation surrounding last year\u2019s firing of eight <st1:country-region st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> attorneys, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Iglesias_%28attorney%29\" target=\"_blank\">David Iglesias<\/a> of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, to explode when he testified under oath in February that at least one was ousted to make way for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Rove\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Rove<\/a> prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can read more about his resignation by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070515\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/fired_prosecutors_resignation;_ylt=At799duln4WU175tjoXmLwfMWM0F\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty is resigning, making him the highest-ranking Bush Administration employee to leave over the U.S. attorney controversy. It was McNulty whose comments really caused the situation surrounding last year\u2019s firing of eight U.S. attorneys, including David Iglesias of New Mexico, to explode when he testified under oath in February that at [&hellip;]<\/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-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}