Newly disclosed documents have provided more evidence of an extensive Bush administration role in the 2006 firings of nine US attorneys. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of evidence including emails and testimony that had previously been kept under seal. The emails show former New Mexico US Attorney David Iglesias was fired after a lengthy correspondence between White House officials upset with his refusal to address alleged voter fraud. Republicans had wanted Iglesias to take on voter fraud in part to benefit a Republican lawmaker’s re-election campaign. Iglesias spoke about Karl Rove when he appeared on Democracy Now! in June 2008.

David Iglesias: “I only met Karl Rove one time. He was at a luncheon in Albuquerque. He came over and introduced himself. But, you know, he was looking to broaden the base of the party, and as an evangelical Christian, as a military veteran, and as a Hispanic, I represented the future of the party, and that was all in one package. I had run for office. I’m typically conservative on lots of social issues. And I think Rove saw that I represented the future of the party. But I think he also thought I was the kind of person who would file bogus voter fraud prosecutions, I would — was the kind of US attorney that would rush an indictment if it would help a fellow conservative. And, you know, I wasn’t that — I didn’t do that.”