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I’ve been following the Don Siegelman case for a couple of months, but as much as I know about this case, it didn’t prevent my blood pressure from leaping up dangerously high. Imprisoning political rivals? Someone tell me again how tyrannical Castro was, because I sure don’t recognize this country as my own when things like this happen.
(Grant) Woods is one of the 52 former state attorneys-general, of both parties, who’ve asked Congress to investigate the Siegelman case.
“I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square. This was a Republican state and he was the one Democrat they could never get rid of,” Woods says.
Now a Republican lawyer from Alabama, Jill Simpson, has come forward to claim that the Siegelman prosecution was part of a five-year secret campaign to ruin the governor. Simpson told 60 Minutes she did what’s called “opposition research” for the Republican party. She says during a meeting in 2001, Karl Rove, President Bush’s senior political advisor, asked her to try to catch Siegelman cheating on his wife. [..]
She says she spied on Siegelman for months but saw nothing. Even though she was working as a Republican campaign operative, Simpson says she wanted to talk to 60 Minutes because Siegelman’s prison sentence bothers her conscience.
Simpson says she wasn’t surprised that Rove made this request. Asked why not, she tells Pelley, “I had had other requests for intelligence before.”
“From Karl Rove?” Pelley asks.
“Yes,” Simpson says.
Simply horrifying how low Karl Rove and company will go. Someone definitely needs to be spending some serious time in prison…but I’m pretty sure it isn’t Don Siegelman. Scott Horton of Harper’s (who is scheduled to speak with Sam Seder on AirAmerica at 4:00 pm est) has been covering this story from the beginning, and truth squads some of Rove’s statements. Guess who isn’t telling the truth?
The full segment and transcripts available here. If you live in Alabama, that’s the ONLY way you’ll get to see the whole segment.
No Trackbacks To “60 Minutes: The Prosecution of Don Siegelman“
Karl Rove is a douchebag. All that can really be said.
I’m curious to learn of the official explanation as to why some (if not all) of the CBS affiliates failed to air this segment or all of “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
Turdblossom and the entire Busholini cabal need to be indicted, convicted and incarcerated!
But Siegelman is probably a baby killer, so it’s justified, right Karl?
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More GOP scum-baggery that deserves GOP jail time in which nothing will ever be done.
sigh :(
Scott Horton has been doing great work on this. Kudos to him.
Whom ever wins in November I hope he or she tries to put an end to this awful shit. In the name of power and winning, the Bush crime family has shitted on all of us and our reputation.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._0225.html
The Democratic candidates will not commit to ending the precedent of Bush’s signing statements to Congressional Legislation.
How telling…
What else won’t they commit to ending?
How about the Military Commissions Act
How about the Patriot Act
How about the Presidential Directive 51?
How about renditions?
How about the war(s) for empire and oil resource consolidation?
How about warrantless wiretapping and electronic surveillance?
Remind me again why the Bush Administration has had such a hankerin’ for broad wiretap capabilities? Anyone who doesn’t believe that they’d wiretap their political enemies for political reason must be part of Bush’s delusional 19% of supporters…
I think it’s beyond obvious the man was railroaded and imprisoned for no other reason than he was a Democrat that the shitflower and criminal buddies could not bribe or beat down.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter.
It wouldn’t matter if you had video tape of every illegal thing the turd ever did. Who’s going to go after him? Who’s going to stop any of them?
Even if someone tries they’ll just laugh and ignore it. Just like they’ve done with everything else.
The story needs to be told, yes.
But unfortunately it won’t change a thing.
Albatross @ 9:
Sorry, quoting myself, but my brain kept connecting the dots. Belatedly, I know, a lot of you already get this, but I just figured it out. But it’s obvious why Bush wants blanket telecom immunity. It’s not for their sakes. It’s because then the telecoms can’t be called to testify about his administrations broad abuses of those wiretaps to spy on domestic political enemies. And they can’t cut prosecution deals, either.
I hope someone is connecting these dots in Congress…
Now let’s not go and destroy Karl Rove’s career like he did to Spiegelman.
Sike!
The Repugs MUST be stopped! However, the rose colored glasses that the Obama campaign has managed to blind most progressives with with be the end of us. What a wonderful world if a nice smile and a promise of “change” would magically result in a bi-partison legislature. NO, these Repug bastards will stop at nothing for their own means and the naive Obama approach will lead to complete defeat.
I’m ready to see someone in the Bush Administration go to jail - no “get out of jail free card” like Scooter Libby got.
And that won’t happen until after January 20, 2009.
Rove should take up waterboarding and see how he likes it. How did Jabba the Hut’s first cousin get a position of such power, I’ll never understand.
CBS WILL RUN THE STORY AGAIN IF THERE IS ENOUGH POSITIVE RESPONSE…
DO YOUR PART. EMAIL THEM!!!!!!!!!!
60m@cbsnews.com
[Quit posting in all caps, rasta-Sitemonitor]
Truth B Told @ 8:
Are you just assuming that the Democratic president will simply follow Busholini’s lead in issuing HUNDREDS of signing statements? According to the article you linked to, signing statements are nothing new — Ray Gun rejuvenated their use, but no President in history has used them like the Chimperor.
favor from MSM and political hacks:
the meme that kkkarl rove is a ‘genius’, ummm yeah, it no longer holds water.
actually, it never did, but y’all laid out a convincing case for a bit, back in ‘04, and some (not me) were convinced.
now that some journalists (a rare breed) have been uncovering his totalitarian-esque strategy, now that we have seen that his desire for a permanent republican majority is a fool’s dream (in big part BECAUSE of rove himself), now that we have had a peek behind the curtain it has become glaringly obvious that kkkarl rove is anything but a genius. he is more like the GOP’s rasputin. his soothsaying and advice (coupled with being a traitor [see, valerie plame]) has proven to not only be ineffective but it has crippled the GOP.
it goes to show that the best way to bring down an organization is from the inside. so, let me be the first liberal to give a big THANK YOU to kkkarl rove. thanks fat-face!!!!
WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama blacked out the first part of this segment. The part about Rove and some big name Alabama Repubilicans. The station ran a trailer stating “We apologize that you missed the first segment of 60 Minutes tonight featuring ‘The Prosecution of Don Siegelman.’ It was a technical problem with CBS out of New York.” Scot Horton of Harper’s contacted CBS News in New York and was told that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties.
For details see: cannonfire blogspot
Dr. Acula @ 15:
Come on. All these candidates are just front men/women for the real power in this country. They all belong to an interconnected web of globalist institutions/think tanks/secret societies. They ALL do. No one gets to run successfully unless they are a made member of the oligarchy.
Left&Left @ 7:
Actually…the word is “schat”.
What bothers me the most about all this, is the fact Roves gets away with it.
Plus that the Alabama news stations putting a kink to this story get my blood to boil even more. This is fascism in the outright. Downright commie good ole boys attitude from the supposedly only true natural blue born-and-bred cowboys in America. If this is America, it stinks !!!!
Liberal AND Proud @ 20:
hmmm. I thought it was ’shat.’
We know what happened to Susan McDougal, why is this surprising to anyone?
Dr. Acula @ 16:
signing statements = bad and, imho, unconstitutional
when a bill is submitted to the pres she/he should either sign it or veto it. i think it should be that simple.
anyhoo, check out this tidbit:
Q: Is it true that George W. Bush has issued many more signing statements than any other president?
A: No, Bill Clinton issued many more signing statements. The controversy is about the kind of signing statements Bush has issued.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu.....nts.php#q8
DanInAlabama @ 18:
How they thought no one would notice — or look into this — is truly amazing. This stunt will probably do more to call attention to the case than 60 Minutes itself could have.
I hope Fox is paying Rove a good buck at his new gig as Fox News pundit. He’ll be needing it for attorney fees. You know what they say… What goes around comes around.
Why are these CRIMINALS in the WHITE HOUSE??? Why isn’t Karl Rove in Prison for outing Valerie Plame??? IMPEACH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE NEO-CON CONSPIRACY!!
Thoroughly disgusting, repulsive, and criminal… that pigfaced KKKarl Rove. What’s it gonna take to put an end to this shit?! Seriously…
We live in Soviet America and have for awhile. And if those of us who know this don’t scream, yell, fight and revolt, it’s all our fault and not theirs.
Joementum @ 25:
Where’s the frickin’ FCC? isn’t this something they need to investigate and sanction the station in Alabamy for?!
Maybe this will send Rove to jail.
There were some juicy details missing from the C&L clip.
Watch them here…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....87925.html
This is cause for revolution.
Scy @ 29:
NO, we live in a free market slave state. But… either way… Lock and load.
Nicole
Thanks for bringing this forward. I didn’t know much about this (figured it was “local” politics) until I read a Huff headline last night. I read the story and followed this links provided by the reporter. When I finished my jaw had dropped to the floor. This story is WAY more than local and way more than just dirty politics. It involves illegal intervention from DOJ, intervention by the White House to prevent CBS from running the story, reporters being threatened, and most importantly censorship to the American people.
We all know Rove is the most evil bastard to draw a breath on this earth, but you will not know how evil without reading all the details. For instance, this ex governor was hauled away in shackles the day of the sentence. Think about it, all the dirty boys, DeLAY, Abramhoff, Lay, Libby, were running around and still some are free, pending their appeals, not this guy he was taken away in shackles. Rove had his hand in everything and with the apparent blessings of the White House. Why is this important today? Rove is still involved in politics and I believe he will covertly shape the 08 elections.
If you want to read more, follow the all the links in the reporter’s story. You will simply NOT believe this could happen in America.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....88218.html
I’ve never intentionally posted an off topic comment but I just read this and it’s possibly the scariest thing I’ve ever read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi.....heobserver
This is a must read, and something to spread as much as possible.
Again, my apologies for being off topic.
Frankly Rove’s role in this was a no-brainer.
A large portion of the blogosphere - at least - have understood the role Rove has to have played in manufacturing the reality of a spineless and complicit Democratic Congress.
The best way to make everyone, including Democrats - Yes-men for Bush, was to get the dirt on them. Who doesn’t know that Rove is absolutely and completely this nefarious?
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I think someone should go after Rove and the folks in Alabama using the RICCO statutes (not sure about the acronym) that they used to prosecute organized crime families.
It’s alarming and shameful what the Republicans have wrought. And yet millions of our fellow citizens, through ignorance, stand up in support of this kind of derailment of our democratic system.
in Amerika @ 38:
No.
Both parties - and a combination of uninformed, debt-distracted, dumbed-down, apathetic, or secretly enthusiastic majority of the American people -
have caused this.
But give extra weight in the formula to the fraud of the dialectic political system. There is only one party.
According to CBS, the local Alabama station, WHNT, cut off the 60 Minutes program about Siegelman. CBS said WHNT made an “editorial” decision. Guess who WHNT is owned by: The Bass brothers, Bush Pioneers, who raised $100,000 for Bush campaigns in 2000 and 2004.
Dana Jill Simpson, who recently testified before Congress, about Rove’s involvement in the Siegelman case…had her house mysteriously catch fire after she testified. What a coincidence.
The Bush administration is nothing but a bunch of criminals. Why isn’t Congress holding them to the Constitution and impeaching them? Why aren’t they up before the Hague? Why aren’t they in jail? Just asking….
Truth B Told @ 39:
POINT NADER!
Because Amerika, Bush has Christian values!
BoilThemInTheirOil @ 13:
Thanks for this comment. They all have blinders on to think Obama has any idea how to fix the enormous problems bush has created. I am suspect of where his money is coming from and the corporate media wh