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This will be the year we see justice, with your help.Rove Linked to Alabama Case
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON
A Republican lawyer claims she was told that Karl Rove — while serving as President Bush's top political adviser — had intervened in the Justice Department's prosecution of Alabama�s most prominent Democrat. Longtime Alabama G.O.P. activist Dana Jill Simpson first made the allegation in June, but has now provided new details in a lengthy sworn statement to the House Judiciary Committee. The Committee is expected to hold public hearings on the Alabama case next week as part of its investigation of possible political interference by the Bush Administration in the activities of the Department of Justice.
Simpson said in June that she heard a close associate of Rove say that the White House political adviser "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys. Siegelman was later indicted on 32 counts of corruption, convicted on seven of them, and is currently serving an 88-month sentence in Federal prison.
If Simpson's version of events is accurate, it would show direct political involvement by the White House in federal prosecutions — a charge leveled by Administration critics in connection with the U.S. attorney scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. But her account is disputed; those who she alleges told her about Rove's involvement during a G.O.P. campaign conference call claim that no such conversation took place. Rove himself has not responded to Simpson's allegations, which are clearly based on second-hand information, and the White House has refused to comment while Siegelman's case remains on appeal.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1669990,00.htmlYou can take action here:
http://www.usalone.net/cgi-bin/oen.cgi?qnum=3297You can write to the governor here:
MAIL Don at:
Don Siegelman
# 24775-0001
Satellite Prison Camp
Post Office Box 5010
Oakdale, LA
71463-5019
You can learn more at the web site his supporters put up:
www.donsiegelman.com
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