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With any luck, the attention that Dan Abrams has committed to bring to the Don Siegelman case will manifest itself into pressure on the Alabama State Attorney General to move towards examining this miscarriage of justice. On last night’s show, Abrams spoke with former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who was interviewed for the 60 Minutes piece and is one of the 52 current and former Attorneys General who have signed a letter raising concerns of politicization in this case. Woods again pointed out some of the red flags that have that bipartisan group calling for a special investigation:
I think our main point is there’s a million red flags on this case. And that doesn’t necessarily mean it will all come to something, but it means there’s just too much out there for it not to be investigated. For context, you should remember that the governor, when he ran for re-election, went to bed having been declared by everybody the winner, he was awakened a few hours later and said, “oh, um, you know, there was some…a foul up in a rural county and uh some votes were switched, so now you lost.”
Now we flash forward a few years, he’s going to run to try to get back into office and they bring charges against him and they go to trial. Pretty big deal, charge a former governor who is getting ready to run again. And the prosecutor gives his opening argument and the judge dismisses the case after the opening argument. That just doesn’t happen. That’s how bad that case was, and they still don’t give up. So they go after him again, and have now a different prosecutor, as you mentioned, the wife of one of the people who have been working for years politically against him and then I think Mr. Kilborn has said that they were all assured that nothing was going to come of it, that the charges were no good. All of the sudden there’s a top to bottom review and charges are brought.
If you would like to send Siegelman your support, his address is here. If you’d like to call for an investigation, you can contact the Alabama State Attorney General’s office here. Larissa Alexandrovna has much, much more…
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can they get MSNBC in Alabama?
After I saw this last night, I could not believe that no other network picked up on it. Could it be if this happended to a Republican the fanatical right would be screaming bloody murder? And now I’m listening to the finacial network and, get this, their blaming the middle class for spreading the rumor of a recession! Christ! I need a drink.
P.D. @ 2:
Yeah, I heard this one. It’s already circulating in K-street, that if you talk about recession, they you are siding with the enemy, that you are doing more harm than good. “American is built on trust, what happens if that trust is broken, as in our economy is tanking ?!!”. Such is the attitude of Republicans that are high on hilly-billy cocaine. They won’t admit the problem, to them all others are the problem.
AAA Rule #1: You want to fix the problem, admit it first, then plan a course of action to solve it. Our commander in chief still won’t admit it, so how can we even begin to solve the problem?
It really gets me when one of these news/talk-show guys gets an informative, articulate guest on their show and then spend their time over-talking and interrupting. I realize they have some time issues, but they seem to be concerned only that they leave time for them to spout off. I suppose that we should be grateful that Abrams is covering it at all, but when you’ve got a good guest, let ‘em talk. That’s the thing I enjoy about The News Hour on PBS, they take the time to allow a story to unfold and are aware enough to know when the subject is ‘on track’ and keep it moving.
This is a horrible miscarriage of justice and Mr. Siegelman needs to be reinstated or instated, as the case may be. Isn’t it interesting what can happen to you when those with the money decide they don’t want you around, huh?! Effed up and absolutely criminal. Those “girls” who assisted in this need to go directly to jail. Same for one of the girl’s husband… fucktards the lot of them!
At least I can count on Oberman and Abrams. If it weren’t for these two you would think Georgie Boy rode off in the sunset and took Darth Cheny with him. The networks are using filler crap to get Americans to not think about this disasterous adminstration. Between Obama and Hilary coverage the coporate media thinks we all sheep. I pray were more savvy than that.
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Don Siegelman was represented at his trial by the best legal defense team money can buy. After all the evidence against him was presented in open court; he was convicted by a jury of his peers. Siegelman will continue to serve his sentence pending his appeal; just like tens of thousands of convicted felons throughout the United States who are currently appealing their convictions. He will not receive special treatment. He will not be released from custody just because he is rich. There will be no double standard of justice.
don siegelman was represented at his trial by the best legal defense team money can buy. After all the evidence against him was presented in open court; he was convicted by a jury of his peers. Just like tens of thousands of convicted felons throughout the United States, Siegelman will continue to serve his sentence pending his appeal. He will not receive special treatment. There will be no double standard of justice. He will not be released just because he is rich and powerful.
Hopefully Abrams covers this every night for the next five thousand years. Karl Rove needs to be in prison.
Looks like Bush has picked up some old habits from his buddy Pooty Poot.
abob @ 9:
Only if you’re Scooter Libby or others in this pnaczi regime who commit treason will you be let off the hook.
wild_idea @ 3:
I think you meant AA Rule #1. AAA rule #1 is put on your hazard lights, pull off on the shoulder, and wait in your vehicle for the tow truck.
“I think our main point is there’s a million red flags on this case. And that doesn’t necessarily mean it will all come to something, but it means there’s just too much out there for it not to be investigated.”
That same sentence gould be used regarding 9/11, as well as several hundred other major disasters brought on the world by Chimpy and his oorgan grinder.
Apparently abob has a problem with reading comprehension. The critical “evidence” was suppossed eye witness testimony that was improperly coerced and coordinated. The denial of release of a non-violent offender pending appeal is the exception not the norm. That they were able to find a jury comprised of 12 mouth breathing, room temperature IQ rednecks like abob to go along with the scam in Darwin’s waiting room (Alabama) is hardly surprising.
weldon @ 1:
“Yes, but only when the network has something pro-bush.
Wasn’t this posted yesterday for a few minutes? I was going to comment, but then “POOF!” it was gone. Now in my senility I can’t for the life of me remember what I was going to comment. Sigh. I’m losin’ it.
Corruption!
There are also rumors that some on the jury were bribed by people in high places.
Welcome to Nazi America!
I’m sure Siegelman’s name did not inspire any particular zeal on anyone’s part while Alabama Justice was being meted out.
abob @ 9:
it was the special treatment that was the reason siegelman went to jsil in the first place.
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CoIntelPro Says:
abob @ 9:
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jsil = jail
Speaking of justice. Seems Russia just had a “rigged” election following the US once again. So now we have the US with 2 rigged elections, Canada with 1 and Russia with 1, for those keeping score. It’s no wonder these nations despise the democracy in Iran, Cuba and Venezuala. How dare they let the people decide?!!!!!!!!
I could never again argue that keeping the country together was a good thing for lincoln to do.
Alabama, you got
the weight on your shoulders
That’s breaking your back.
Your Cadillac
has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track
Oh Alabama.
Can I see you
and shake your hand.
Make friends down in Alabama.
I’m from a new land
I come to you
and see all this ruin
What are you doing Alabama?
You got the rest of the union
to help you along
What’s going wrong?
– from “Alabama” by Neil Young
The Alabama Attorney General is not going to do squat. Jeff Sessions (R. Senator) is up to his neck in this also. I believe Siegelmans’ only hope if for a Congressional investigation. This is all political and everything and everyone in Alabama is Republican. Siegelman was the only democrat left in Alabama politics. Hence. I believe they made their point.
Remember when we read about things like this happening in other countries and thought how great the USA was that it couldn’t happen here?
I guess this is what happens when people think that winning at politics is more important than anything. And if they can destroy other peoples lives in the process, so much the better.
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
Free Siegelman, Mr. Botha.
“Where the law ends, tyranny begins.” - John Locke
SassySandy @ 26:
and so it goes….
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Friday rejected referring the House’s contempt citations against President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel to a federal grand jury.
ConcernedCanuck @ 23:
you left out the 1998 midterm elections!
speaking of justice ………..
Judge Gives Wikileaks Site Its Address Back By JONATHAN D. GLATER
At a hearing, the judge appeared at times visibly frustrated that technology might have outrun the law and that, as a result, the court might not be able to rein in information disclosed online.
So more whistleblowers can remain anonymous.
Why was Rove so determined to hold onto Alabama? Or was this a testing ground to see how far they could push their own form of justice?
SassySandy @ 26:
The Alabama State Legislature actually has a Democratic majority (House +19, Senate +11).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....sentatives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Senate
In addition to Sessions, former state Attorney General and current Federal Judge, Bill Pryor is muddled up in this, both were also implicated in the Healthsouth investigation, but NOT prosecuted.
http://www.time.com/time/print.....20,00.html
kablooie @ 29:
we’re already there.
SWoods @ 33:
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Jena, Louisiana,
Tennessee,
Florida,
…..
The Confederate States are the strongest voting bloc in the nation and the most rigged.
More justice courtesy of NY Police:
“I would have shot Sean Bell myself if my officers weren’t shooting so much” -
Commander Testifies He Felt ‘Under Fire’ Outside Nightclub By JOHN ELIGON
The commanding officer at the time of a fatal shooting testified that he was ready to add to the fusillade of 50 shots that claimed Sean Bell’s life.
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They don’t lynch you in NY. They join the police force.
After Obama becomes President ….
think of the Bush Administration as a giant corrupt,decayed Pinata’ filled to to the bursting point waiting for just one whack from a real Attorney General.
t-bone @ 15:
Abob is a bloody moron.
bobswire @ 38:
Now THAT is a friggin great analogy, lol!!!
Don Siegelman
#24775-0001
Satellite Prison Camp
Post Office Box 5010
Oakdale, LA 71463-5019
CoIntelPro @ 31:
So many fraudulent elections to keep up with…so little time.
abob @ 8:
You mean he won’t get the Libby treatment.
A name worth googling is the whistle blower Charlie Grapski , some very nasty things being done to him down in Florida.
Unlawful eviction from town council meeting before he could ask financial questions, arrested on false charges multiple times, beaten up in jail, photographed by corrupt LE people in his cell in a bloody mess, photos incorporated into a Youtube video with the music ‘I fought the law, and the law won’ released to ridicule him by the people trying to keep him in jail and silenced.
Rather a stalinist campaign going on down there to keep him off the streets and quiet.
They also are interfering with his bank account which is rather a serious felony affair, definitely a Federal crime by the perps scheming against him to cover up their land and property corruption.
abob @ 8:
justice? you call that justice? nevermind that the first judge threw it out of court.nevermind that the second judge threw out 24 of the 32 charges.nevermind that this was all politicaly motivated. justice?
no,to get justice,this needs to be re-investigated for any wrong doing by the DA and the GOP.
And, on Siegleman as well.
Karl Rove would never do anything this under handed, would he?
abob @ 9:
Do I have your attention now?