Senate Ethics Committee kisses Domenci’s butt

Retiring New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici got the mildest of hand-slapes from the Senate Ethics Committee Thursday for calling U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, at Iglesias’ home, no less, and asking him about whether some Democratic corruption indictments were forthcoming, just weeks before the November 2006 general election. Iglesias was later fired for apparently political reasons by then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Anyway, politically active people know the story. Here’s the hand-slap finger-tap from Ethics.

It criticized him in a letter. Ooh, bet Pete was just CRUSHED by that. Why the love tap?

”The committee finds no substantial evidence to determine that you attempted to improperly influence an ongoing investigation,” the committee letter said.

And the committee openly admitted it never looked into the case beyond the actual phone call.

Guess we will never see Dems push current AG Mike Mukasey on the Harriett Miers and John Bolton contempt of Congress citations, with éclair-like backbones like that.