Fired U.S. attorneys

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Daniel Bogden

Daniel Bogden was one of nine U.S. Attorneys fired for political reasons by the Bush administration. He was fired by the Bush administration in December of 2006. President Obama reappoited him to be U.S. attorney again in July, 2009. Bogden was the only one of the nine fired U.S. attorneys to get his job back.


2007

2008

2009

Bud Cummins

Bud Cummins was one of nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration.

2007

Paul Charlton

Paul Charlton was one of nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration.

David Iglesias

David Iglesias was one of nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration.

2007

2008

2009

"David Iglesias -- the former US Attorney who was fired in 2006 for failing to prosecute politically motivated cases as aggressively as the Bush administration and its allies wanted -- has a new job. "Iglesias, a member of the US Naval Reserve JAG corps, has been reactivated as part of a special prosecution team for Guantanamo detainees, he told a New Mexico news station this morning. `One hundred percent of what I'm doing is prosecuting terrorist cases out of Guantanamo,' he said. Igleisas explained that he had already begun the work, having travelled to the facility once, and expecting to go back."

"A federal grand jury probe of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration is focusing on the role played by recently retired Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and former senior Bush White House aides in the 2006 dismissal of David Iglesias as U.S. attorney for New Mexico, according to legal sources familiar with the inquiry. The federal grand jury is investigating whether Domenici and other political figures attempted to improperly press Iglesias to bring a criminal prosecution against New Mexico Democrats just prior to the 2006 congressional midterm elections, according to legal sources close to the investigation and private attorneys representing officials who prosecutors want to question. Investigators appear to be scrutinizing Iglesias' firing in the context of whether he was fired in retaliation because Domenici and others believed that he would not manipulate the timing of prosecutions to help Republicans."

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