{"id":4590,"date":"2007-05-23T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2007-05-24T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:57:50","slug":"fired-us-attorney-david-iglesias-invokes-watergate-in-la-times-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"Fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias Invokes Watergate in LA Times Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-iglesias23may23,1,7904903.story?ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DavidIglesias.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>New Mexico&#8217;s fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-iglesias23may23,1,7904903.story?ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">op-eds in today&#8217;s <i>LA Times<\/i><\/a> on Gonzeles et al. in advance of this morning&#8217;s testimony by Monica Goodling:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">WHAT HAPPENS in a presidential administration when loyalty, to borrow a phrase from &#8220;Star Trek,&#8221; becomes the &#8220;prime directive&#8221;? What happens when its all-encompassing fog obscures all other values &#8220;\u201d such as fealty to the Constitution, the rule of law or simple humanity?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat has become clear already is that the &#8220;loyalty <em>uber alles<\/em>&#8221; mentality has infected a wide swath of the Bush administration. Simple notions like right and wrong are, in their eyes, matters of allegiance, not conscience.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nLoyalty is a virtue with limits. That was one of the many hard lessons from Watergate. In that scandal, some of President Nixon&#8217;s staffers carried their loyalty to the president all the way to federal prison.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico&#8217;s fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias op-eds in today&#8217;s LA Times on Gonzeles et al. in advance of this morning&#8217;s testimony by Monica Goodling: WHAT HAPPENS in a presidential administration when loyalty, to borrow a phrase from &#8220;Star Trek,&#8221; becomes the &#8220;prime directive&#8221;? What happens when its all-encompassing fog obscures all other values &#8220;\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,223],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-dept-of-justice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}