Some of the prosecutors recently fired for no apparent reason by the Bush Administration, are going before Congress to to tell their story.

Today, one of those former prosecutors told how he received a phone call from Sen. Pete Domenici , and how Domenici just hung up on him, when he told him there would likely be no indictments in a corruption case involving Democrats, before the elections.

From CNN:

A fired federal prosecutor told a Senate committee Tuesday that he felt "leaned on" and sickened as Republican Sen. Pete Domenici hung up on him in disgust last fall when told that indictments in a corruption case against Democrats would not be issued before the fall elections.

"He said, 'Are these going to be filed before November?' " former federal prosecutor David Iglesias, one of eight U.S. attorneys summarily fired in recent months, told the panel. "I said I didn't think so. And to which he replied, 'I'm very sorry to hear that.' And then the line went dead."

The Bush administration also applied a heavy hand after the firings of eight prosecutors became public and some of the dismissed U.S. attorneys had been quoted in media, according to one of those ousted, Bud Cummins of Arkansas.

Ex-prosecutor says lawmaker tried to leverage him

Of course, the biggest news item of the day is the conviction of Scotter Libby (Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff) in the CIA leak trial.

Libby was convicted on 4 out of 5 counts, including obstruction of justice, making false statements to the FBI, and perjury before the grand jury.  In other words, today justice was served for former CIA covert operative Valerie Plame (whose name we, the American public, should not even know).

After the announcement of the verdicts, one of the jurors spoke out, and had something very interesting to say.  They convicted Scotter Libby because they believed him to be guilty, based on the evidence.

But also, they felt he had been set up by the Bush Administration to be their "fall guy."  And they said that they often wondered where some of the bigger guns were, like Karl Rove.

From MSNBC:

“I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury,” said the juror, Denis Collins, a former newspaper reporter.

“It was said a number of times: ‘What are we doing with this guy here? Where’s Rove? Where are these other guys?’ ” Collins said, referring to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who was identified during the investigation as one of the senior officials who revealed the identity of the operative, Valerie Plame, to journalists.

‘Where’s Rove? Where are these other guys?’

Juror says Libby was guilty but was set up to take the fall in Plame probe