Karl "turd blossom"Rove Linked to Siegelman Prosecution

[Bravo Zulu]

Significant new information is appearing on the Siegelman case, in the form of the 143-page deposition of Jill Simpson, a Republican lawyer who previously issued an affidavit that described a telephone conversation in which Alabama’s leading G.O.P. strategist described Rove intervening with the Justice Department to get the Siegelman case going. The deposition is backed by a mountain of documents that corroborate Simpson’s statements on most critical points. The transcript was leaked by Republican Judiciary Committee staffers earlier in the week to the vest-pocket publication of the Alabama G.O.P., the Birmingham News, as I noted yesterday. Today, however, Time magazine weighs in with an accurate account of the transcript

For months, the Alabama Republican machine has attempted to brush off claims about Rove’s involvement as some sort of fantastic speculation. Those efforts have just been exploded. We are one step closer to understanding why Karl Rove left the White House, and perhaps also why Alberto Gonzales stepped down as attorney general. The Siegelman case is emerging, as we predicted, as the most damning exhibit yet in the story of the Bush Administration’s use of the Justice Department as a partisan political tool.
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[notadmblnd]

1. This is how this admin operates across the board

I believe this is why our democrats in congress have no spine.

[chaumont58]

2. I have to agree

We are supposed to be a nation of laws, but the repukes operate without any restraint of laws whatsoever. Remember Susan McDougall(sp?). The repuke sherrif of Los Angeles County put her in the Sybal Brand Institute in LA. Sybil Brand is a place for hard core criminals, not political prisoners. Now, there is some evidence that a former governor of state has become a political prisoner. Our wonderfull collection of beltway whores can not be bothered to stop fellating chimpie for even a few minutes to investigate.
I do not have high hopes that even the coming election of 2008 will change much. Right in the middle of the Democratic Party is the DLC. Joe Lieberman is the poster boy for the DLC.

[lyonn]

3. What an evil web this admin. weaves

The guy got 88 months and there is evidence of corruption by the White House during Siegelman's prosecution?? We shall see how our Judicial Committee will proceed on this.

[blondie58]

4. this poor woman needs to be in the witness protection program

these thugs will stop at nothing.

[Froward69]

5. A page from Herbert Hoover

I feel this is a reason Congressional Dems seem timid. Except Joe biden for some reason.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Who is this Session guy? Does he have a past?

Was he involved with the Clarence Thomas selection or the Bush v. Gore fiasco? Or was it the Monica Lewinsky thing? The name rings a very big bell.