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All the publicity that the Don Siegelman case has brought in the last couple of days has made the rats in the Alabama Republican party scurrying to find the safety of darkness again. Led by chief rat Karl Rove, the modus operandi is to deny, deny, deny. The only problem? You have 52 Attorneys General, Republican and Democrat alike, who say that this case just doesn’t pass the smell test.
The case rests on the testimony of Dana Jill Simpson who has come forward to say that Karl Rove asked her to dig up compromising sexual photographs of Siegelman. Classy guy, that Turdblossom. Besides denying that they know Simpson (which as she points out in the clip is a simple matter of explaining away phone records), things took a decidedly more sinister tone, as Larisa Alexandrovna documents:
As 60 Minutes was putting its show together, the White House put pressure on CBS — the parent company — to kill the show. Over the last few days, as word got out that the 60 Minutes show would air tonight, Karl Rove’s associates began planting defamatory stories about journalists working on this story (see example here) and attacking the whistle-blower who came forward, Dana Jill Simpson. If you recall, Ms. Simpson testified, under oath, to Congress about Karl Rove’s involvement in politicizing the DOJ. What you may not know, however, is that her house mysteriously caught fire and she was run off the road in the weeks leading up to her testimony.
What you may also not know is that Governor Siegelman’s house was broken into twice during his trial as was his attorney’s office.
Yesterday, the attacks on Simpson and journalists increased with a series of emails from the Alabama GOP. See Here.
I’m not trying to be overly dramatic, but as the layers get pulled away in this case, I’m having a harder and harder time believing that this is America and not some third world dictatorship.
No Trackbacks To “The Abrams Report: Bush League Justice on Siegelman“
Foist!
“…this is America and not some third world dictatorship.”
Can’t it be both?
“I’m not trying to be overly dramatic, but as the layers get pulled away in this case, I’m having a harder and harder time believing that this is America and not some third world dictatorship. ”
Ummm…helloooooo!? I’ve been saying this for years! This IS some third world dictatorship!
“Forget it, Nicole. It’s Alabamatown.”
Geraldo @ 2:
FEMA, Katrina and New Orleans today - Third World
Justice Department under Bush, Cheney and Rove - Dictatorship
There are still people who say that breaking into Watergate was the right, patriotic thing to do. It’s sadly unsurprising to see the criminal tactics of witness harassment coming from the GOP.
“Silkwood” anybody?
I believe we should be over dramatic. The bells should be ringing in the churches and town squares. The citizens of America should be made to come out of hiding and see what is going on.
I remember watching the movie (name?) about the right trying to get the “Clinton’s” and thinking how frightening that was. I fear for Obama, I truly do. I am not being overly dramatic I am being realistic. Our country has gone to hell in the hands of “America terrorists” and I am scared.
Not to worry Geraldo, Bush has been on the job for the past 7 years and has made tremendous strides in making us a third world country on the economic front. To be honest though his attempts at making it a dictatorship having been lacking. While he has managed to chip away at separation of church and state and our civil rights he has made no definitive movement toward a true unitary executive and suspending elections and such. However there is still time to fabricate an excuse based on fearmongering. Don’t give up hope!
As Thom Hartman characterized this morning on his early show: “This may be the ‘duct tape on the door that unravels’ the whole thing.” In reference to the Bush Administration, the politicization of the Justice Department and the reason not why those seven attorneys were fired, but why the rest were allowed to keep their job.
He just may be right.
What did Bush say (ominously) several years ago, and allegedly jokingly…something like ‘he’d be fine with a dictatorship, as long as he’s in charge’, and then he laughed with his shoulders moving (like he always does). I’m paraphrasing of course, but with this Siegelman case it’s not much of a stretch to see that idea in action.
as long as we can shine the light into the dark recess of the republic, and get them to scurry like the roaches they are, we ain’t no dictatorship yet.
We are corporate facsists, but not dictators yet..
we the people are awakeing
unless Bush is stopped (impeached), just before his term ends he will pardon everybody he can think of…even if they allegedly didn’t do anything wrong, but he’ll just be covering his ass with the pardons. no one will be surprised by this but it will an astonishing miscarriage of justice. well he won’t be able to pardon himself.
duncanidho @ 12:
Bingo! Well said. It ain’t over yet… not by a long shot.
The new head of the republican party:
http://images.google.com/imgre.....44,GGLG:en
I beg everyone to read the RawStory articles on this. This is by far the biggest story of them all. 60 Minutes doesn’t even touch on the election that was stolen in the night from Siegelman, just how involved the “my girls are on it” is in the prosecution, etc. These are long but well worth it. This isn’t the first time RawStory has lead the way on some of the biggest headlines, and lets hope it won’t be the last.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1125.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1127.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1216.html
Sven @ 6:
There are still people in America (and elsewhere for that matter) who believe Hitler was on the right genocidal track. Hell, the Bush family are some of them! Hello Prescott!!
P.S. I read somewhere that there is a great-grandkid Bush named Prescott. Jiminy creepers, talk about demon spawn!
Corruption in high places!
No, this isn’t the land of the FREE and the Home of the BRAVE.
If it were, Karl Rove would be in Gitmo, and Shrubya never gets the Oval Office.
This isn’t America; it’s George Orwell’s “1984″, complete with NewSpeak, and Don Siegelman as Winston Smith.
Com’on this stuff only happens in movies, right, right? Jesus Crackers, Lord help us.
Guys, guys, what we’re forgetting is that Don Siegelman is a terrorist….
This is enough to make someone physically ill. The Republicans are obviously enamored of the ends justify the means, the ends being Republican Domination of American politics, and the means being any legal, extralegal or illegal tactic or strategy in the book. Not content to simply smear, now they smear with the enforcement of the law not far behind. If you are not a Republican you should very afraid of this administration. If you are Nnot a democrat you should be very afraid of the precident they are setting with this kind of behavior.
What most surprises me is that CBS didn’t go belly up and kill the story.
Karl Rove needs to suffer the same treatment he unleashed on Dana Simpson. He may not have issued direct orders, but his hand was involved even as he kept his distance and maintained his “plausible deniability.”
He’s the most despicable person in an army of despicable people. What is it you call someone who uses violence and threats of violence as a means of achieving political ends — a terrorist, yes?
Very Russian…. no wonder Bush looked into the eyes of Putin and liked what he saw….. what is next assassinating your politcal opponents…?
Somebody tricked Rove into holding a “Free Don Siegelman” banner. No shit.
Well if they would try to kill this woman I seriously suggest that Obama double his security detail.
Nicole the fact that you still think it isn’t a dictatorship is surprising. What’s missing that has kept you in doubt until now?
I blame internets.
Back in the day, a story of political scandal like this (e.g., Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, etc) being reported by “the media” was enough to bring people down, because people actually had a sense of SHAME.
No longer. None of the bastards are ever ashamed, because there are enough liars on all sides to refute whatever truths are found to be inconvenient.
The Bush Junta and the entire GOP is nothing more than an organization of brown-shirted thugs. Nobody should be surprised that this happened; it’s the way they roll. The persecution of Seigelman is a perfect microcosm for the tyranny that is the Bush junta and the GOP’s plan for America.
Fox News has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY LEFT.
They are employing criminals.
Just why did Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch hold a political fund raiser for Clinton in New York?
Is Bush chief adviser criminal Rove advising Clinton?
And What is this???….
“Both Qatar and the UAE would likely sever their links to the U.S. dollar this year and track currency baskets as Kuwait did last May, Deutsche Bank said last month.”?????????????????????
What is bubble maker Greenspan up to NOW?
http://news.google.com/news?hl.....amp;tab=wn
THIS CASE IS AN ONION!
Peel back layer after layer and cry all the way through.
Welcome to El Salvador Norte’
Is it just me or does Dana Jill Simpson look like “Krispy Kreme” from Erin Brockovich?
This may be America, but the neocons who have been running it for the last twenty years are third world thugs. The Bush crime family makes the mafia look like the Little Rascals.
This can happen to you too.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1125.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/.....n_1126.htm
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1127.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._1216.html
I have read so much about Bush,Cheney,Rove,and their massively corrupt minion of thugs and stooges getting away with literal murder by lying us into a war that lines the pockets of these minions.I am aghast at the evil that this administration has produced in the seven awful years they have been in power.But as my friend Frank Zappa said on his 1988 tour,“Someday,all those cocksuckers will get caught.”
I`m waitin` with a smile,Frankie.
This story is YEARS old and Siegelman is STILL in jail …
So why is 60Mins, et all just now starting to wake up ?
THAT’s the real scary part.
I just hope siegelman can go after everyone involved civilly and take them for everything they got. Especially the judge and turdblossom.
If the trial and conviction of Don Siegelman was unjust it is not a political issue but a legal issue. Siegelman had his day in court. He was represented by the best legal team money can buy. After all the evidence was presented in open court, a jury of his peers found him guilty. Siegelman was granted his constitutional right of due process. If Siegelman is convinced he was wrongly convicted he still enjoys the legal right to petition a higher court to overturn the verdict. The overwrought hand-wringing of the mainstream media is much ado about nothing.
This is all just one big conspiracy theory right down to the house burning. Same as the anthrax and the same as 9/11. These corrupt crooks would NEVER stoop this low. Well, that’s what I keep getting told. Been told conspiracy theorists are nutsos regardless of how much evidence there is…………..this crap has been going on since before Clinton left the WhiteHouse and everybody has been ignoring it until the last couple years.
People need to go to prison over this! No pardons or commutung the sentence! And I’m talking about the guilty parties not some patsies! And I’m talking REAL prison not some country club for rich elites!
Bush/GOP economy taking hold. Shit hitting the fan http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....conomy_rdp
abob @ 39:
Yeah, nothing like having your day in a corrupt court.
Susie @ 8:
They want you to be scared. Instead, get mad.
And they’re still trying to sell the idea that they need a FISA bill to spy on people.
Abob,
You obviously did not watch the piece on 60 minutes. There was no justice served here as a matter of fact it was a travesty served as a vendetta. Evidence was with held as was testimony and how they got the testimony from a convict who was coached for days on his testimony. It is total BS and Siegelman has not had his day in court but when he does he will take it out on all involved when and if Obama gets elected.
No W Now @ 16:
exactly…..votes “found” in the middle of the night
its never the votes…its the counters
abob @ 39:
He should have had 45 days to file his appeal. Instead they put him in shackles and hauled him off to prison. He is not even able to speak to reporters. Do your reseach before you run your mouth.