"60 Minutes" preparing report on Siegelman case

[L. Coyote]

Source: The Tuscaloosa News

"60 Minutes" preparing report on Siegelman case
TUSCALOOSA - Posted November 16, 2007
http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=700943


I'm getting reports from all over that CBS's "60 Minutes" is gathering information in Alabama about the case of incarcerated former Gov. Don Siegelman.

First I got an email from a friend who forwarded another email saying that a women who works for the program had contacted the Alabama Department of Archives and History "in an effort to locate the negative television ads that Steve Windom ran against Siegelman in 2002."

Next I heard from a local political operative that he had been contacted by a "60 Minutes" producer looking for insights into the players in the trial that sent the former governor to federal prison for seven years. There have been at least four such producers working on the story in Alabama the last few weeks he said.

Finally, I got an email from someone who was close to Siegelman and has been working diligently to get him out of prison by any legal means necessary. This is part of what he wrote:

"They started working on it about two months ago. They have conducted some15 or 16 interviews. They have talked to all the lawyers, some family, and have been unable to get permission from Justice to interview Don. .....

Read more: http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=700943

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MORE on DU:

Political Prisoner Don Seigelman: UPDATES. The Curious Case of the Missing Transcript
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2252551

Previous thread with links to the series of these Siegelman link compilations

Political Prisoner Don Seigelman: TIME COVER STORY to be Political Prosecutions in Alabama
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1982675

[gratuitous]

1. Watch the Tiffany Network kill the story at the last minute

Can't upset the Bush administration, you know. Even if the story's tighter than a drum, if there's the slightest inconsistency or debatable point, they won't air it. This rule, of course, does not apply to Democrats, for whom all inferences that can be drawn should lead to the worst conclusions possible.

[L. Coyote]

2. I doubt this story will be quashed. It ran in Time, NY Times, WA Post, DU, more...

[KingOfLostSouls]

3. a political prisoner in the united states

never thought we'd see the day...

honestly, tinfoil hat time, but when I first read about this it sent a shiver up my spine of how truly evil this administration is. and just how deep down I feel they're going to try to stay in power beyond next year.

just something about it if they're willing to work to get this man put in prison as literally a political prisoner, then it shows how far they're willing to go.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Free Susan McDougal

Susan McDougal is a political prisoner of Kenneth Starr and is being held as a hostage of the the Religous Right.

snip...


The Bottom Line
What's really happening is that the Republicans are desperate to get something to turn this election around and will do anything to anybody in order to get them to lie in their behalf. In order to get the McDougals convicted the Republican Prosecutor pressured, threatened, and made deals with many people to get them to lie to convict them. Now they are being forced to choose between jail and lying about the Clintons.

The Republicans have become an evil party who will do anything for power. They are controlled by the Christian Coalition who is in turn controlled by Reverend Moon (yes, the Moonies) who rake in hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The Moonies own the Washington Times and use it as a leveraging tool to get their message into the legitimate media. These people want to take your freedoms away and rule the United States by enforcing their particular brand if Christianity on you, kind of a Christian version of Iran.

I therefore urge all of you to not vote for any Republican until Susan McDougal is free and the court system is no longer being used by the Republican Party as a terrorist tool against their political enemies.

Susan McDougal is currently in Jail. Susan is refusing to answer questions about alleged criminal acts by President Clinton in the Whitewater Related Trial. The basis of Susan's refusal is her lack of trust in the motives of Mr. Starr who is a partisan Republican with numerous conflicts of interest in this case. (The New York Times has called for his resignation as a result). Mr. Starr may very well have been appointed "independent" council at the behest of ultra conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Mr. Starr has been retained by leading tobacco companies to lead the attack on President Clinton's attempt to regulate the tobacco industry. Mr. Starr was appointed by George Bush as Solicitor General and his ultimate goal is to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Starr is using Susan McDougal as a pawn in his effort to influence the Presidential election. Susan's family asks for your help and support in protesting by all means possible - her cruel imprisonment and prosecution by Mr. Starr. MORE...

http://www.perkel.com/politics/mcdougal/

Same old shit same old assholes! Nazi Like Bastids!

[L. Coyote]

9. Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral

Here is more on the crimes committed to impeach Clinton, and the nefarious bozos who did the deeds:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1029113

[girl gone mad]

15. First thing that came to my mind, too.

The right wing is not new to evil.

[L. Coyote]

17. Nixon's war on drugs was a political enemies thing, so how many political prisoners would that be?

A few million weed prisoners?

[Hubert Flottz]

18. How many third rate lawyers have risen to ploitical fame by jailing

a few potheads and ruining these young folks for life. Wrecked young lives mean nothing to self serving pigs like that. Compassion your ass! Wreckage follows the GOP like an evil shadow...why would anyone with any brains vote for MORE shit like that?

[DRoseDARs]

4. Did anyone else read that as "'60 Minutes' preparing report on Sibel Edmonds case" ?

:shrug:

[KingOfLostSouls]

5. HA!

I did. too much to wish for, eh?

[BB1]

8. Another one here!

Lots of dry runs, these days. Think some of them will stay that way, unless...

[tbyg52]

16. Yup. Too much hoping, seeing things.... nt

[trof]

7. I hope I hope I hope

[brentspeak]

10. Hopefully, 60 Minutes doesn't screw this one up like they did with the Bush National Guard story

In other words: confirm your sources before (not after) you run with a story.

[hang a left]

11. Almost 700 views and no recommends??

knr

[pacalo]

12. I ditto that.

Wouldn't it be something if this case, which is just one puzzle piece of the U.S. attorneys scandal, were the one that will have brought down Karl Rove?

This case is significant & I'm thrilled to hear that "60 Minutes" is looking at it.

[Supersedeas]

13. the GOP Media Establishment doesn't know where to turn--what happened to the ratings?

[rumpel]

14. gladly added the 5th n/t