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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Siegelman Saga: Alabama G.O.P. Wrestles with Retraction (!!) [View all]
http://pacificfreepress.com/opinion/2339-the-siegelman-saga-alabama-gop-wrestles-with-retraction.htmlOne of the most interesting sideshows coming out of the transmission of the 60 Minutes segment dealing with former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman has been the conduct of the Alabama G.O.P. The CBS piece features direct charges leveled at Karl Rove and at Bush Administration prosecutors. But to listen to Michael Hubbard, the chair of the Alabama Republicans, you'd think it was a grudge match between 60 Minutes and his party.
Another Republican Calls Siegelman Case a Travesty
Hubbard, the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register are clearly vexed by the mounting calls from Republicans for Siegelman to be set free. And today they have another setback. Former Reagan Administration Treasury official and Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts weighs in:
"Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush Administration.
"The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush Administration's use of the US Department of Justice to rid themselves of a Democratic governor who they could not beat fair and square, according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona and co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee. Woods says that he has never seen a case with so many red flags pointing to injustice.
Another Republican Calls Siegelman Case a Travesty
Hubbard, the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register are clearly vexed by the mounting calls from Republicans for Siegelman to be set free. And today they have another setback. Former Reagan Administration Treasury official and Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts weighs in:
"Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush Administration.
"The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush Administration's use of the US Department of Justice to rid themselves of a Democratic governor who they could not beat fair and square, according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona and co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee. Woods says that he has never seen a case with so many red flags pointing to injustice.
I would LOVE to see some more attention to this outrageous injustice.
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K&R & Bookmarking & Are you posting over at DAILY KOS? where a person can subscribe to a feed? nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#1
I believe he could commute his sentence as Bush did with Scooter, or outright pardon him like Ford
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#10
Yes. The sole authority for granting pardons is given to the President in Art II, Sec. 2,
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#15
This must be kept upfront - such injustice should not be allowed to happen
riverbendviewgal
Dec 2012
#4
Related "Hindsight is 20/20 for Mike Hubbard: Don't mix business and politics" Montgomery Advertiser
jody
Dec 2012
#5
Not a bribe in the worst sense, and most likely Scrushy didn't have the bad rep he does now.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#25
TV, that night, in AL, went blank, for 20 minutes, BY COINCIDENCE, just that story, on 60 Minutes.
Festivito
Dec 2012
#47
No coincidence. Saw that when PBS was going to play 'Death of a Princess' in Houston.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#69
Can someone give me the detailed skinny on what happened here? I'm at a loss to this situation. nt
cecilfirefox
Dec 2012
#20
I really want to see this man released. Here is some more about working on his pardon:
freshwest
Dec 2012
#21
Holder did it with Stevens because the corruption of his prosecutors in that case had been exposed.
former9thward
Dec 2012
#48
There is a place o White House.gov for petitions.... commute sentence for the New Year!!! nt
kelliekat44
Dec 2012
#29
Every DAY that passes, that Obama doesn't pardon Siegelman, is a nasty stain on his record
99th_Monkey
Dec 2012
#32
Chalk this up as more reasons to hate Rove-Bush and his honchos and throw them all in jail.
Auntie Bush
Dec 2012
#71