TPMDC
U.S. Attorney

« March 2011

Heather Wilson

Wilson's Role In U.S. Attorneys Scandal Could Haunt Her Senate Bid

Susan Crabtree | March 7, 2011, 4:25PM


Former Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)

Now that former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) is throwing her hat into the ring for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), expect a nasty, bitter race and plenty of ghosts turning up from Wilson's decade-long Washington career.

Wilson, a former Air Force officer and director at the National Security Council, was a rising GOP star and a standout on defense and intelligence matters post-9/11. But her Washington career ended in 2008 when she lost a GOP Senate primary to Rep. Steve Pearce, who then lost the general election to Democrat Tom Udall.

In the lead up to that primary, Wilson suffered a series of public relations blows for her role in the U.S. attorneys' scandal, improperly politicized firings of U.S. prosecutors by the Bush administration, which Democrats spent months investigating in 2007 and 2008. A lot of information about Wilson's role wasn't ever really scrutinized to the extent it could have been because she lost her first Senate bid.

Read more »

PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)
Topics: David Iglesias, Heather Wilson, House Judiciary Committee, Jeff Bingaman, Karl Rove, Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney

Barack Obama

Gibbs: 'Nobody' In WH Aware Of Baucus' Girlfriend Issue

Christina Bellantoni | December 7, 2009, 2:36PM


Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked to respond to the news Sen. Max Baucus recommended his girlfriend for a U.S. attorney post.

"Senator Baucus did not give us any information about those three names," Gibbs said.

"Nobody here was involved in it," Gibbs said, adding, "I don't mean anybody besides those who know Senator Baucus, I mean nobody."

The RNC called for an investigation, but there has been relatively little reaction as Baucus talks about health care most of today on the Senate floor.

PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)
Topics: Barack Obama, Ethics, Max Baucus, U.S. Attorney, White House

« March 2011

Follow us!

TPM Top News