CBS/AP: GOP Chief Says He Approached Rove About Ousting U.S. Attorney 'After The Fact' Of Firing

[PhilipShore]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/11/ap/politics/main2556379.shtml">Link

Mar. 11, 2007

(AP) The chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party was quoted Saturday as saying he urged presidential adviser Karl Rove and one of his assistants to fire the state's U.S. attorney. He said later, however, the decision had already been made by the time he talked to Rove.

McClatchy Newspapers reported that Allen Weh said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove, asking that he be removed, and followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.

"Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?" Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event.

"He's gone," Rove said, according to Weh.

[Erika]

1. Obstruction of justice n/t

[solara]

2. I am in shock! This story was actually reported on the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque! nt