A few more nuggets from the Post piece on the Iglesias charges.
In his interview with the Post Iglesias speculates on the probable chain of events that got him fired …
“I didn’t give them what they wanted. 
That was probably a political problem that caused them to go to the White House or whomever and complain that I wasn’t a team player.”
If you’re a nervous member of Congress in a tight election and you’re pissed you can’t get any action out of Iglesias, you probably don’t call the DOJ. You call the White House, specifically the political office. So who at the White House got called? And what did they do?
There’s another interesting tidbit down at the bottom of the article — a few brief comments from former Deputy AG James Comey. Remember, when the Plame case started to heat up in late 2003 and Attorney General Ashcroft had to recuse himself from participation in the case, it was Comey, the Deputy AG, who appointed a prosecutor he knew would get to the bottom of the mess, Patrick Fitzgerald. Here’s Comey …
Former deputy attorney general James B. Comey this week praised Iglesias as “a fired-up guy.”
“David Iglesias was one of our finest and someone I had a lot of confidence in as deputy attorney general,” said Comey, now general counsel for Lockheed Martin.
But Roehrkasse said Justice “had a lengthy record from which to evaluate his performance as a manager, and we made our decision not to further extend his service based on performance-related concerns.”
Who do you believe?
