The Department of Justice was hijacked by Rove and Gonzales to use the offices of U.S. Attorneys to prosecute Americans to achieve partisan ends and to influence elections to favor the Republican Party.

It is stunning, and all the more so because Rove and Gonzales have not been indicted, prosecuted and jailed. And it is likely that Bush and Cheney were aware of the firing of U.S. Attorneys who upheld the rule of law and the appointment of those whose first loyalty was to the Republican Party without regard to the Constitution.

This is the story of David Iglesias, former U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, who was fired because he wouldn't engage in political prosecutions to benefit Republicans in his state.

It is important to remember his story -- and remember that the U.S. Attorneys that went along with this scheme to make the Department of Justice an arm of the Republican Party are mostly still in power.

Through the assertion of executive privilege and the ongoing stonewalling of the DOJ, justice has yet to be done.

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"A year later, the U.S. Attorney scandal still matters—and not simply because it ties Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to brazen efforts to manipulate both laws and legal processes for partisan ends. It also has legs because unlike so many of the Bush administration scandals, the trail neither begins nor ends with top-secret legal memos but with dozens of small e-mails, meetings, threats, and phone calls being investigated at various levels of government. Iglesias's book reminds us that while his former bosses may shred the e-mails, sack the bumblers, obstruct Congress, and—quoting Sampson again—try to gum this scandal to death, the truth will come out, eventually. His book is a good start."
—Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

"In Justice is a chilling tale of the subversion of the Constitution for political purposes. What was done to David Iglesias and his colleagues constitutes complete and utter disregard for the rule of law that underpins our great republic. Americans will rightly be appalled and Republicans ashamed at this abuse of power."
— Joseph C. Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth

"The lasting value of David Iglesias's outstanding book extends far beyond its fascinating, insightful, and candid account of the political firestorm ignited by the simultaneous firings of seven United States Attorneys. Its account of the courageous, principled commitment of these U.S. Attorneys to assess cases according to the facts and the law rather than succumb to political pressure and partisan loyalties reveals how he and his colleagues turned an attempt to corrupt the finest traditions of the Department into a victory for the continued independence of U.S. Attorneys and the rule of law."
—James Eisenstein, Professor of Political Science, Penn State