Know your BFEE: Bush and His Crooks with Badges Sent an Innocent Man to Jail

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Hey America! Can it get any more obvious?

The Siegelman case shows Bush is more than a crook.

Bush is a TRAITOR!



The little turd from Crawford and his brain grossly abused their authority.
As Adlai Stevenson noted, “Corruption in public office is treason.”
Perhaps most of you reading will agree with that great statesman. I do:
What Bush and Rove and their flunkies in the Department of Just-Us have done is TREASON.

The Siegelman Case — A Political Prosecution Exposed

By: Scott Horton Monday March 3, 2008 12:00 pm
Firedoglake.com

EXERPT…

Republicans Lead the Attack

But the show was dominated by one of 52 former attorneys general from 40 of the 50 states who have called for a Congressional probe of the conduct of the Siegelman case, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods. He leveled a series of blistering accusations at the Bush Administration’s Justice Department. With the Alabama G.O.P. this evening issuing a near-hysterical statement in which it characterizes the CBS broadcast—before its transmission—as an anti-Republican attack piece, it was notable that Woods, like the piece’s other star witness, is a Republican. Not just any Republican, either. Grant Woods is co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee, and a lifelong friend and advisor to the presumptive 2008 G.O.P. presidential candidate. Woods is also godfather to one of the McCain children.

SNIP…

First, we know that the first two career prosecutors assigned to the case, including the most experienced prosecutors who worked on it, came to the same conclusion that Grant Woods did: no reasonable prosecutor would ever have charged this case. The Justice Department has consistently made false statements about the roles of the two earlier prosecutors, and their role only emerged in the last few months. It’s extremely noteworthy that throughout the history of this case, whenever a career prosecutor concluded that charges should not be brought, that career prosecutor ran into a bump in his career and was off the case. The message to the remaining career prosecutors was plenty clear. In fact it is clear that the career prosecutors’ views were overridden by political appointees driven by a strong partisan political agenda.

Second, they claim that the case was brought on a fair reading of the law. It was not, and indeed reasonable career prosecutors never would have acted on the basis of the reading they advanced, and a fair detached judge never would have allowed the case to go forward. This case offered neither.

Third, they claim that evidence was produced to sustain the charges. But the key evidence that the prosecutors brought forward was false, and they knew it was false. In this case proceeding on the basis of that false evidence was a corrupt wielding of prosecutorial power, pursued for a corrupt partisan political end—the elimination of a political adversary. They withheld the Bailey notes which would have demonstrated that his memory on this was conflicted or wrong and would therefore have devastated his testimony. There is mounting evidence that one or more witnesses were unethically pressured to give false evidence or face retaliation. This suspicion surrounds not only Nick Bailey, but also Jefferson County Republican Commissioner Gary White. Note the affidavit of his wife, which a federal judge in Birmingham stated only two weeks ago he found “established a prima facie case of impermissible conduct” by the prosecutors. The claim put forward there goes precisely to these facts. White was pressured to give false evidence supporting Bailey on his false claims about the meeting. It is suggested that he would be prosecuted if he failed to do so. He refused, saying the testimony would be false. And he was prosecuted. This seems to summarize the crooked criminal justice system that Karl Rove and his friends have promoted in Alabama.

This is Only an Introduction

CBS conducted dozens of interviews and has much more that it hasn’t shown. The additional footage concerns the Canary team—husband Billy who advised the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidates against Siegelman, and wife Leura Canary, whose prosecution of Siegelman was essential to the G.O.P.’s efforts to secure the Montgomery statehouse. And they have much more on the inexplicable conduct of federal Judge Mark Fuller, appointed by George W. Bush, a former member of the Alabama G.O.P.’s Executive Committee, and a man who publicly stated that Siegelman had a grudge against him—but who refused to recuse himself from the case.

CONTINUED…

http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/03/first-monday-the-siegelman-case-a-political-prosecution-exposed/#comments

Rove and Bush have abused their authority to and the Department of Justice to prosecute an INNOCENT MAN.

That makes the case against Bush and his regime clear and simple:

Bush and Rove abused their authority, using their offices to commit the crime of imprisoning an innocent man who also is a political rival.

That’s something Mao Tse Tung would do.
That’s something Josef Stalin would do.
That’s something Adolf Hitler would do.
That’s something Augusto Pinochet would do.

That’s not something a GOOD American president would do.
Only an evil one would.

One whose family does business with Mao's heirs.
One whose family did business with Stalin.
One whose family did business with Hitler.
One whose family did business with Pinochet.

Going by the kind of people who evil presidents have appointed to the federal bench, it certainly may be that this isn’t America any more.

It does happen in America

The political trial of Don Siegelman

By Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal Guest Writer
Special Reports
Feb 29, 2008, 01:03

EXCERPT…

However, Federal District Judge Mark Fuller, a Bush appointee, ignored the tainted jury. Fuller himself was part of the prosecution. He bore a strong grudge against Siegelman. Fuller had been an Alabama district attorney before Bush made him a federal judge. Fuller’s successor as district attorney was appointed by Siegelman and produced evidence that Fuller had defrauded or attempted to defraud the state retirement system.

Despite his known animosity toward Siegelman, Fuller refused to recuse himself from Siegelman’s trial. According to the WOTM Special Report, Fuller owns a company that was receiving federal money during Siegelman’s trial. Fuller did not disclose this conflict of interest. Everyone knew the trial was Karl Rove’s effort to rid the Republicans of the candidate they could not beat, and the Republican judge presiding over the trial had a company whose coffers were being filled with federal money.

The Justice Department’s answer to the exposure of its frame-up of Siegelman is that Siegelman was indicted by career prosecutors and convicted in a fair trial by a jury of his peers. These claims are no more truthful than anything else the DOJ says. Horton reports that career prosecutors advised against the case, concluded it was a political vendetta and walked away from it. Canary’s "girls" were "flailing about trying to find loyal troopers who would shut up and do what is expected of them," a category into which Scott Horton says Louis Franklin and his deputy Stephen Feaga fell. The jurors were presented with Bailey’s perjury suborned by the US attorney‘s office and misled about what the testimony actually meant.

SNIP…

Unable to defeat Siegelman even with leaks from a phony investigation designed to smear him, the Republicans decided to steal the election. After all districts had reported the vote count, Siegelman thanked the voters for reelecting him and went to bed. During the night the Republicans, with no Democratic voting officials present, "recounted" the ballots in Baldwin County. Six thousand Siegelman votes that had been reported disappeared in the recount. The next morning Republican Bob Riley declared himself the winner.

The theft was so hastily arranged that the thieves forgot to change any of the other vote outcomes on the ballots. All other races had the same totals as originally reported, a statistical impossibility had there actually been a computer glitch as the election thieves claimed.

The Republican attorney general, Pryor, refused a recount. The Republican Justice Department and Republican federal judges looked the other way, as did the Republican propaganda sheets that masquerade as news media in Alabama.

CONTINUED…

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3013.shtml

Here's what could get people -- the supposed 19-percent of Americans who support the crooked warmonger -- to change their minds about him (never thought I’d write these words):

Must-see TV

the CBS 60-Minutes broadcast on the case.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4511971799162153726&q=Siegelman+60-minutes&total=20&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

But wait, thanks to DU and the miracle of the Intertubes, there’s more to send.

The brilliant and heroic lala_rawraw and other great DUers helped shine the light of Truth on a most hideous chapter of American history. And you know what? It has started to make a difference.

Hissyspit
*** Official 60 Minutes Siegelman/Rove Story Thread *** Blocked in Alabama! (TRANSCRIPT & VIDEO)

L. Coyote
Political Prisoner Don Siegelman: Will the 60 Minutes Spotlight Make a Difference?

L. Coyote
HORTON on McCain, Abramoff and the Riley Band of Choctaw Republicans

blm
Kerry to FCC: Will be monitoring Siegelman story blackout investigation closely.

sfexpat2000
FCC looks into "60 Minutes" blackout

L. Coyote
HORTON on McCain, Abramoff and the Riley Band of Choctaw Republicans

happydreams
HERO ALERT: FCC Commisioner Michael Copps

Pamela Troy
"Grotesque Imaginings"

fascisthunter
Have any Democratic Officials Said anything about Siegelman?

MelissaB
Finally in local paper (Siegleman): Alabama in spotlight not always good

trof
Mobile Register: "CBS (60 Minutes) guilty of bad journalism."

sfexpat2000
Someone needs to ask McCain about Don Siegelman.

Jeffersons
History on Siegelman's Opponent Bob Riley from ALABAMA...

mod mom
Harpers: The Pork Barrel World of Judge Fuller (GOV SIEGELMAN'S JUDGE)

Trof
Here's how you can help Don Siegelman:

bleever
Dana Siegelman coming up on Dan Abrams

marmar
The Nation: The 60 Minutes Blackout

CatWoman
Will Newsweek fire Rove over Siegelman scandal?

Hissyspit
BREAKING: Larisa Alexandrovna - Alabama Dems Call For Special Prosecutor

Hissyspit
Scott Horton: Birmingham News (Unofficial Voice Of Alabama GOP) Dispense More Koolaid

Junkdrawer
Scott Horton: CBS Says WHNT-TV Lying About "Technical Problem"...

kpete
NYTimes editorial covers 60 minutes Siegelman 'blackout'

whereismyparty
Don Siegelman can't appeal his conviction!

McCamy Taylor
Karl Rove's Glass House Problem: Or How Governor W. Used the Texas Lottery To Pay Off Ben Barnes

Originalpckelly
WHNT-TV (station Siegelman blackout) is owned by close Bush ally. Robert Bass...

samplegirl
"Free Don Siegelman Thread" Let's keep this horrific story alive

lonestarnot
"(S)iegelman whistleblower on MSNBC! Siegelman political prisoner.

Joanne98
Alabama Democratic Party Calls for Special Prosecutor

Junkdrawer
Old Time DUers: Remember Lee Bass and Harken Energy?

pnorman
Siegelman of Alabama -- help needed

Phoebe
Don't forget that Siegelman story is just a metaphor for the perversion of the Justice Department

sfexpat2000
Don Siegelman's birthday is on Sunday. Please send him a note.

burythehatchet
The media lock down on the Don Siegelman story must be broken.

L. Coyote
Siegelman judge's firm got $18 million contract

L. Coyote
A Political Prosecution Goes Under the Microscope ** USAs = the “Gonzales Eight”

santamargarita
Let's not Forget Political Prisoner, Don Siegelman

lala_rawraw
A Letter from Dana Siegelman...

If it weren’t for Democratic Underground, I probably wouldn’t have known about Gov. Siegelman's case.

Detroit's newspapers, I remember, did mention the conviction of an Alabama govenor on "bribery charges" getting sentenced, but they provided zero detail. And that was a while ago. Today, even with the “60 Minutes” broadcast, odds are I wouldn’t have heard about the circumstances. No one at work talked about it, without me bringing it up.

Now, if the media blackout can be broken for this story, why not break the Cone of Silence that has enveloped the rest of the BFEE’s criminality? Who knows? It might change things.

Not that Bush is a traitor is news to good DUers. Who can forget Valerie Plame? Please share this information with your family and friends in Alabama—across America and around the world. It won’t be too long before those who want justice will see the likes of Karl the Nazi Rove and his body, the monkey, doing their own perp walks. On that day, America will again be a nation of laws.



That will be due in large part to DUers. Thank you all.