Rep. Wilson Says She Contacted Prosecutor

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Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) acknowledged today that she contacted a federal prosecutor to complain about the pace of his public corruption investigations, as the Senate Ethics Committee signaled that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into a similar communication by the state's senior senator, Pete V. Domenici (R).

Wilson denied allegations from former New Mexico U.S. attorney David C. Iglesias that she was pressuring him to speed up the pace of a public corruption investigation involving Democrats in the waning days of a tight election campaign.

"I did not ask about the timing of any indictments and I did not tell Mr. Iglesias what course of action I thought he should take or pressure him in any way," Wilson said in a statement to the Washington Post. "The conversation was brief and professional."

Iglesias, one of seven U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department on Dec. 7, is expected to testify to Congress tomorrow that Wilson and Domenici were indeed trying to sway the course of his investigation. Domenici acknowledged Sunday that he called Iglesias about the corruption case, but said he did not pressure him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501241.html

[DemKR]

1. How we long for thee Patricia Madrid n/t

[Donnachaidh]

2. complaining about the pace of a suit ISN'T pressuring?

How much koolaid did this woman drink on a daily basis?

Brief and professional in a pig's ass! :grr:

[antonialee839]

3. And if you believe this one, she also has a bridge

to sell you.

[BuyingThyme]

4. They didn't tell them what to do. They just asked questions

like, "What the fuck are you doing?" or "Do you love your children?"

[Sydnie]

5. This SCREAMS talking point memo!

From what Domenici said -
"However, at no time in that conversation or any other conversation with Mr. Iglesias did I ever tell him what course of action I thought he should take on any legal matter. I have never pressured him nor threatened him in any way."

From what Wilson said -
"I did not ask about the timing of any indictments and I did not tell Mr. Iglesias what course of action I thought he should take or pressure him in any way," Wilson said in a statement to the Washington Post. "The conversation was brief and professional"

Sound damn similar to me!

[EST]

6. Set's see, now--

This woman insisted, republican style, that she did not call and now, seeing that the hammer is about to descend on her mentor, knowing that a suitable penalty in congress-a democratic congress-can range from a no harm, no foul, to expulsion, decides to come clean.

Again, typically republican, she thinks that telling a half truth will expunge a previous lie. And with other republicans, of course it would.
Truth means nothing to them except when it will get themselves out of a scrape. The truth is a fluid thing, a strong spice, to be used only in tiny, careful measure.

What about the interference in the prosecution of whatever case the guy was hunting for?

So now we are expected believe her?

[longship]

7. Tick... tick... tick... tick...

The fuse is lit. This might very well blow up.

I love the smell of obstruction of justice indictments in the morning.