In Justice - Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
By Denis Campbell • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Book Reviews
by David Iglesias
Publisher’s synopsis – “The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story. Iglesias has long served in the Navy as part of the JAG corps. One of his earliest cases, about an assaulted Marine in Guantanamo Bay, became the basis for the movie A Few Good Men. When Bush chose him to become the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, it was a dream come true.
He was a core member of Karl Rove’s idealized Republican Party of the future - handsome, Hispanic, evangelical, and a military veteran. The dream came to an abrupt end when Senator Pete Domenici improperly called Iglesias, wanting him to indict high-level Democrats before the 2006 elections. When Iglesias refused, the line went dead. Iglesias was fired just weeks later. First, he was devastated. Then, he was angry. Now, he is speaking out.
Iglesias recounts his interactions with Bush, Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and other key players as he takes readers into his time at the Justice Department to reveal what top Republican officials said and did, and how they subverted justice.”
While very little about the Bush Administration’s political activities surprises. They have managed to cross over previously taboo lines to advance their goals. I found it a shocking read to see how the SPIN machine dove so deeply into the Justice Department to keep questionable but headline grabbing prosecutions and a culture of fear alive and well in Washington.
A straightforward read, if it does not lead to indictments of the former Attorney General and his minions, we will allow an era of American politics to just skate by. In looking at the numerous real scandals from potential War Crimes to ignoring and raping the environment to looting the Treasury to benefit the companies they formerly ran or worked for, the complete lack of shame, asking if indeed self-interest is enlightened and a sheer arrogant, almost divine right to do whatever they wish by changing or ignoring laws and treaties to suit their purpose must have a day of reckoning or it will be repeated.
Vadimus Post rating A-
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Denis Campbell is a journalist, author and businessman.
From a farmhouse in South Wales overlooking the Irish Sea, he and his wife run Target Point Ltd, an EU-wide strategy firm working with global businesses across a dozen industries on clarifying and executing strategy and changing their culture and focus. As a businessman living in the EU for 10-years, writing was a passionate hobby. He began blogging in 2006 with a number of pieces examining the corrupt climate of deception in the billion dollar spiritual self-help industry and re-published collected business, political and lifestyle features published across the EU since 2001. It has since grown into The Vadimus Post, from the Latin Quo Vadimus – where are we headed? (…and do we know why?), a daily e-magazine for those wanting to dig deeper, learn more together and dialogue on the key issues of the day.
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