Fired USA: Mukasey “Gets It”

Michael Mukasey sought to assure senators (and seems to have been successful) that there’d be no repeat of the U.S. attorney firings scandal on his watch.

So, now that Mukasey’s hearings are done, what do the fired U.S. attorneys think about Alberto Gonzales’ replacement?

Former U.S.A. for New Mexico David Iglesias, for one, is pleased. “It appears to me that he gets it,” he told me. “He understands the necessity for having an independent attorney general and an independent Department of Justice.” Iglesias added that he liked “the fact that he’s a former federal prosecutor. He understands that you have to build an absolute firewall from politics.”

I’d “really be surprised if my colleagues hold different views from this,” he added.