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Press Clip from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

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U.S. attorney scandal smacks of Watergate

SOURCE: Tim Wheeler // People's Weekly World

4 May 2007 // President Bush gave Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a vote of confidence last week. But labor, peace and civil rights activists in New Mexico are raising sharp questions about Gonzales’ firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, suggesting it was revenge for Iglesias’ failure to carry out the White House agenda just before the Nov. 7 elections.

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