Reply #50: No way, but Karl Rove is going to wish it were so, that I do prognosticate.

[L. Coyote]

No glass ball needed to see Karl Rove, Hillman, Gonzales, Judge Fuller,
Riley, Abramoff, Scanlan, Reed,et.al. won't enjoy life as much this week! :rofl:

It is time to put the spotlight on all the nefarious details and players.
People like Noel Hillman have practically escaped scrutiny so far. Too many crooks!

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Noel Hillman and the Siegelman Case
Scott Horton - July 13, 2007 - http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000509

Noel Hillman is a federal judge in Camden, New Jersey appointed to the court by President Bush in the spring of 2006 ... in 2007, the Bush White House decided to appoint Hillman to a coveted seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Again, Congressional support was lined up and Hillman’s confirmation seemed all but a “done deal.” And then something happened. New Jersey’s leading newspaper, the Newark Star-Ledger, put it this way in a report on June 10:11. “The Auditor,” The Newark Star-Ledger, Sunday, June 10, 2007, Perspective Section, p. 3, final ed.

Hillman, a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the lead Justice Department prosecutor in the Jack Abramoff Capitol Hill lobbying scandal, had full White House support and the backing of New Jersey’s two Democratic senators, but the Bush Administration pulled the nomination for reasons that remain a mystery.

Did Hillman’s deep involvement with the prosecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, Wisconsin administrator Georgia Thompson, and a growing number of other cases in which political manipulation of prosecutions are involved cost him a court of appeals judgeship? This is what sources close to the process on Capitol Hill are telling me.

Hillman is a “loyal Bushie,” and a long-time protégé of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, .... , and was later selected by Chertoff to head the Public Integrity Section (PIN), one of the most sensitive, and also one of the most intrinsically political positions in the Department of Justice. Reduced to its essence, PIN decides who and what is corrupt in the American political landscape.

Four Judges

Hillman is also one of four sitting federal judges who have played roles in connection with the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. ......