PBS Tavis Smiley Show: Interview with Don Siegelman, Part 1 of 2 - April 22, 2008.
Part 2 Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBlj1qzouchttp://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/siegelman-interviewed-by-tavis-smileyTavis Smiley has former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman as a guest. Siegelman began by offering people an understanding of the big picture emphasizing that his case is just a symptom of the larger, critical problem:
Who hijacked the Department of Justice and turned it into a political tool to win elections?”
Remember the U.S. Attorney scandal that brought to light the purging of prosecutors who weren’t taking down Democrats. The recently released House Judiciary report on political prosecutions highlights a disproportionate prosecution rate among Democrats versus Republicans. It was 80% to 20% respectively. A study says the likelihood that that rate would occur normally is 1 in 10,000. U.S. Attorneys in Alabama kept their jobs; so, the inference is they’re busy about Bush’s and Rove’s business. Siegelman is not the only case where Rove’s involvement is suspected.
Siegelman suggests his opposition to Bush wasn’t necessarily the reason Rove wanted to see Siegelman fall. Smiley asked what Rove had against the governor. Siegelman response:
"Whether it was just a personal issue between me and Karl Rove, I don’t know. We had had a number of run-ins since 1994.”
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