David Iglesias Joins Maddow For "Truth About The Lies About ACORN" Segment (VIDEO)

David Iglesias Joins Maddow For "Truth About The Lies About ACORN" Segment (VIDEO)

David Iglesias, who was one of the U.S. attorneys (New Mexico) that the Bush Justice Department ousted for political reasons, joined Rachel Maddow tonight to continue her ongoing segment "The Truth About The Lies About ACORN."

Iglesias says he was forced out from his position in part because he refused pressure from Republicans to investigate bogus claims of voter registration fraud against ACORN.

Iglesias recounts to Maddow the work that ACORN was doing to register New Mexico voters and the intense political pressure he was receiving from Republicans to halt ACORN's efforts:

As a matter of fact, I set up one of only two voter fraud task forces in the country. I worked with state and local officials. I worked with the FBI. I worked with the Justice Department in Washington. And we took over 100 complaints. We set up a hotline. I mean, I believed there to be prosecutable cases, but I wasn't going to make up evidence. And at the end of two years I couldn't find one case I could prosecute.

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