VIDEO: Iglesias Details Calls From Domenici and Wilson

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VIDEO: Iglesias Details Calls From Domenici and Wilson

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings today on the Bush administration’s purge of at least eight U.S. Attorneys. Committee chairman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) turned first to former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.

Iglesias first described the call he received “at home” from Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), noting it “was the only time I had ever received a call from any member of Congress while at home during my tenure.” Domenici called to prod Iglesias “about corruption matters or the corruption cases that had been widely reported in the local media.” Here’s how Iglesisas described the conversation:

Domenici: “Are these going to be filed before November?”

Iglesias: “I didn’t think so.”

Domenici: “I’m very sorry to hear that.”

Iglesias also detailed his call from Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), which occurred roughly two weeks prior to Domenici’s call. Iglesias said that after some light chit-chat, Wilson said “she’d been hearing about sealed indictments” and asked Iglesias for details. “The second she said any question about sealed indictments, red flags went up in my head,” Iglesias said. “We specifically cannot talk about a sealed indictment.” Iglesias likened it to calling up a nuclear scientist and saying, “let’s talk about those secret codes, those launch codes.”

Watch it at link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/06/iglesias-domenici-wilson/