A Bush administration prosecutor recently called the labeling of environmental activists as terrorists “political” and “overreaching.” From The Eugene Weekly’s Alan Pittman, former U.S. attorney David C. Iglesias said:
“It seems to me what happened here should not fit my traditional definition of what terrorism is,” he said. Charging the environmental saboteurs in Eugene with terrorism “just seems like overreaching,” Iglesias said. “Maybe that’s an issue that Congress should revisit.”
Iglesias should know about playing politics with the law. He was fired from his post as U.S. attorney in New Mexico, and has said that it may have been because he refused a request by two members of Congress to speed up charges involving a Democrat prior to the November elections. He told Dan Eggen at The Washington Post: “I didn’t give them what they wanted.”