Emails show "not tough enough on immigration" = "facts fixed around the policy."

[quiet.american]

(This info has been posted before, but bears repeating):

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16964237.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation

Jennings, a political operative, had earlier passed along complaints from Republican Party activists about U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who was fired from his job in New Mexico. Some Republicans were angry that Iglesias hadn't been more aggressive in investigating Democrats.


The e-mails also show that administration officials struggled to find a way to justify the firings and considered citing immigration enforcement simply because three of the fired prosecutors were stationed near the border with Mexico. While the e-mails don't provide evidence of partisan motives for the firings, they seem to undercut the administration's explanation that the prosecutors were dismissed for poor performance.


"The one common link here is that three of them are along the southern border so you could make the connection that DOJ is unhappy with the immigration prosecution numbers in those districts," Tasia Scolinos, a senior public affairs specialist at the Justice Department, told Catherine Martin, a White House communications adviser, in an e-mail.

"Which ones are they?" Martin replied.

[indepat]

1. With this cabal, the facts are fixed around all its policies and actions

[Igel]

2. Timeline. n/t