"60 Minutes Done A Great Job"

The Bush’s elete group of corrupt GOP’ers are scared to death that Don Siegelman may be on the streets before the election. Especially with Slick Bob so nervous that he is combing his hair and spraying his mouth and under arms every Five minutes for two reasons: He's hoping that the next president will be John McCain a republican and that he will asked to be his running mate. If a Democrat wins as the next president he/she will probally appoint new U.S. Attorneys in Alabama. Riley along with most of the top GOP operatives could get Federal charges filed against them for taking millions of dollars from Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff to defeat Siegelmans lottery campaign and for Riley's election campaigns.

I recall some time back there was a report of a DOJ Inspector General investigation on this. Is this ongoing? Also... it's unfortunate that on the West Coast this was shown when the Academy Awards were playing. I'm assuming that ET and CT zones saw this. It looks to me like Mukasey is going to continue a cover-up on the DOJ scandal.

I think it's worth noting that the ballot measure was for funding college scholarships. Neither Siegleman nor his allies stood to gain diddleysquat from it.

Nothing that increases the average IQ of the populations of Southern states is going to be tolerated by this administration.

They do funny things down Alabama way. Maybe Rove and Siegelman are actually first cousins?

52 US attorneys?

And these among the ones who have NOT been fired by the Bush League for failure to screen their cases through the "will this benefit Republicans" filter?

The Siegelman prosecution was wrong. But it's only OFICIALLY wrong when the Republicans say so.

Quoted at The Carpetbagger Report:

I am now hearing from readers all across Northern Alabama—from Decatur to Huntsville and considerably on down—that a mysterious “service interruption” blocked the broadcast of only the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes this evening. The broadcaster is Channel 19 WHNT, which serves Northern Alabama and Southern Tennessee. This station was noteworthy for its hostility to Siegelman and support for his Republican adversary. 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 techincal problem with CBS out of New York.” I 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. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have been an editorial call.”

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Pete Forsyth at 12:57 a.m. The man who was interviewed by 60 minutes, I believe his name is Grant Wood, is a Republican yes, but not a USA. He was the state's attorney for Arizona, and I believe the 52 others protesting the Siegelman injustice are not USAs either but various state's attorneys and others from both the Republican and Democratic parties. The USAs, you remember, "serve at the pleasure of the president" and can be fired for not doing so. I think they are silent on this case, but if anyone knows differently, please tell me. I am very interested because I think the next Democratic president needs to fire ALL current USAs. They are the most political "class" of USAs in our history, and the only good ones, those who set aside politics when they were sworn in as USAs, were the 9 who were fired by Bush.

I can't help but equate the 'Department of Justice' with the Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth.' Over the past seven+ years their ranks of been filled with some of the most amoral political hacks this country has ever seen. And yet, in typical apathetic post-1960's American fashion, the populous is either unaware or so indifferent that they won't step in to stop this perversion of our judicial system.

Here's the hit list:

+Dismissal of US attorneys +Findings in support of water boarding +Findings in support of warrant-less wiretapping +Governor Siegelman prosecution +Findings against right to habeus corpus +Validity of AG Gonzales' testimony before congress

One of the outrageous elements here was the Siegelman was handcuffed and shackled at the ankles IMMEDIATELY upon sentencing, and whisked off to jail. No opportunity for an appeal, not even a short grace period before reporting to prison. Gee, I wonder what the GOP judge and his buddies were afraid of?

Someone also made the observation that, if Siegelman could be convicted of bribery for this, then what about someone who makes large campaign contributions and then gets an ambassadorial post? Seems like there's a whole lot to investigate here. The Dems in Congress need to quit being so mousy about these kinds of things, and do some serious investigating. Now, not later.

Raw Story (rawstory.com)RawStory - Exclusive: Larisa Alexandrovna Back in Novembefrof '07 Larisa wrote the first of a three part series covering in detail, the Siegelman case. It is titled "The permanant Republican majority" It is very detailed and well research. It is hard to believe this could happen in our country. Then you think about how are government wants the right to hold indefinitely, any and all enemy combatants, U.S.citizens or not without the right to habius corpus - we have every reason to sit back and be paranoid; or we can act and support 60 Minutes for getting this story out and encourage them to do more. The White House tried to get the segmant pulled. It was blacked out in the major markets in Alabama. This could be THE Water Gate for this administration and those who have supported it. We need to keep this in the main stream media. I work with a number of attorneys that have told me that I had tro be nuts to believe this. No judge would do something so blatant ... Iam beginning to get the phone calls from these same attorneys and they are absolutely blown away by what has happened in Alabama.

Keep pushing this one!

quote from ~rural resident : Someone also made the observation that, if Siegelman could be convicted of bribery for this, then what about someone who makes large campaign contributions and then gets an ambassadorial post? Seems like there's a whole lot to investigate here.... ~end quote.

ummm, yeah. isn't that called Court Precedent? if so, then it can be turned right around and used against those Other People (such as Republicans) who have done even more bribericious things. (that's legalese ya know).

Question: When the hell are the Democrats going to put Karl Rove in jail?

Seigelman lead off in handcuffs immediately upon conviction and moved from prison to prison. Sounds to me like they're trying to disappear him.

I wish to apologise to you for British rule of your proud and honourable county of Mobile during the 1700s. We limies had no right to stick our fingers in your pie. Bless you! Fran