The search for a reason, any reason for U.S. Attorney for Nevada Daniel Bogden’s firing continues.
On Monday, The Washington Post reported that a Justice Department official had raised concerns about Bogden’s performance on voter fraud. Maybe that was why he was canned?
Well, if so, it wasn’t because Nevada Republicans were up in arms about it, reports The Las Vegas Sun. Despite the fact that Karl Rove had “made sure to mention it to state officials during a campaign swing through Las Vegas just months before the contested 2004 election,” the Sun reports, there seem to have been no complaints at all:
Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, said he knew of no cases brought to the U.S. attorneyâs office in recent years. Nevada Republicans say the same.
The biggest case Nevada had seen recently were allegations in 2004 that a Republican-financed group had shredded registration cards from Democratic voters. The FBI investigated but it appears the case was not forwarded to Bogden.
But as we’ve learned in New Mexico, Washington, and Missouri, there doesn’t actually have to have been credible allegations of voter fraud in order for the administration to be unhappy with a U.S. attorney’s lack of attention to it.
