Siegelman Freed/ Rove to Jail!

[FOTD]

State of Alabama is in disbelief. Roveco and Bushco finally get tagged! Our government has been saved for the moment! Fairness is the lynch pin of our Judicial system!

"Siegelman has maintained that certain Republicans targeted him after he was elected governor in 1998 in an attempt to derail his political career."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Siegelman-Release.html?scp=2&sq=Siegelman&st=nyt

"critics, including a group of former state attorneys general, have called for an independent review and said the case raises questions. "

There will be a never ending frenzy to destroy Obama in order to get a pardon for all in Shrub's administration. McCain is the only hope to protect what's transpired in the Justice Department the last 7 years. It's great this will be news after 1/19/08 and we can see the truth about Rove, Myers, and Gonzo and their "undies" unfold with no cover left.

[Conan71]

There's an old Chinese proverb along the lines of:  "If you sit amongst smelly people, eventually you shall be smelly too."  or some such thing.

Lesson to be learned is: be careful of the associates you keep.  HealthSouth was pay-to-play on both ends.  Scrushy is one of the most corrupt healthcare administrators in the country.  If you wanted HealthSouth's business as a vendor, you paid dearly for it.  They've spread a lot of money around in government to experience the growth in revenue they got via changes in medicare coverage.

Scrushy's dirty and he's made a fortune off the back of the taxpayer.

Siegelman's prosecution could have just as much been a result of the local U.S. atty being pissed off they didn't get a conviction of Scrushy on the HealthSouth book-cooking scheme.  Siegelman would have done well to avoid a close relationship with Scrushy or HealthSouth.  

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/washington/28cnd-siegelman.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206810906-In+RTFLmF7HeVJp8zZX0wg

"His fingerprints are smeared all over the case," Mr. Siegelman said, a day after a federal appeals court ordered him released on bond and said there were legitimate questions about his case."

I hope this breaks it wide open.

If it's proven Rove is complicit he'll probably get his own TV show.

Rove broke our government and our judicial system for political purposes that went beyond the pale. Time for payback soon approaching.

[FOTD]

This story is gonna get big!

Why is the GOP Concerned About Donald Siegelman?

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/03/28/why-is-the-gop-concerned-about-donald-siegelman/

 Let's hope he prevails. It'll be interesting to see what happens in DC when he testifies.

[Conan71]

This story has no traction except with  conspiracists in the blogosphere who have wet dreams thinking of Rove getting sacked.

"All Spin Zone".  Where do you find this ****?

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

This story has no traction except with  conspiracists in the blogosphere who have wet dreams thinking of Rove getting sacked.

"All Spin Zone".  Where do you find this ****?

Wow Conan, what a shame you hate our constitution.

[FOTD]

Slow down Conyers. This has got to play out slowly so Dumbya can't mess around with a pardon.

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200805200001

"The Siegelman saga gains momentum while the GOP disintegrates, and Karl Rove continues to harvest media kudos as a masterful political tactician.

Which one of those three just doesn't belong?"

[FOTD]

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/RoveSubpoenaed_LettertoBobLuskin_052208.pdf

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/RoveSubpoenaed_SubpoenatoKarlRove_052208.pdf

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/RoveSubpoenaed_LetterFromBobLuskin_052108.pdf

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/ResponsetoReportReferralfromOPR_Siegelman_050508.pdf

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6008

[Conan71]

Lesson learned from Scooter Libby when testifying:

"I don't recall".

It's really pretty simple.

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Lesson learned from Scooter Libby when testifying:

"I don't recall".

It's really pretty simple.

I don't remember that?

[FOTD]

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said that the House Judiciary Committee would be willing to arrest Karl Rove if the former White House official doesn't testify about his role in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/05/28/wasserman-schultz-judiciary-committee-willing-to-arrest-rove-if-he-doesnt-testify/

"Well, if that's what it takes," she said. "I mean we really cannot allow the co-equal branch of government, the legislative branch, to be trampled upon by the executive branch. The founding fathers established three branches of government. We are a co-equal branch, and this is an administration that essentially has ignored and disrespected the role of the legislative branch for far too long."

Lock the Turd Blossom up!!

[Conan71]

Rove in handcuffs is serious pornography to FOTD.

[FOTD]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/opinion/02mon1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Mr. Rove Talks, but Doesn't Answer


Published: June 2, 2008
In a recent appearance on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," Karl Rove was asked if he had a role in the Justice Department's decision to prosecute Don Siegelman. The former Democratic governor of Alabama was convicted and sentenced to more than seven years, quite possibly for political reasons, and there is evidence that Mr. Rove may have been pulling the strings.


Additional commentary, background information and other items by Times editorial writers.

Mr. Rove, who has traded in his White House job for that of talking head, talked a lot but didn't answer the question. He also did not directly deny being involved. The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed him to testify. It should do everything in its power to see that he does and that he answers all of its questions.

Mr. Siegelman — who began serving his sentence before being freed on appeal — was convicted on corruption charges that appear to be flimsy, and his supporters have long insisted that he was prosecuted for partisan reasons. Until his indictment, he was the Democrats' best chance of taking back the Alabama governorship.

After Mr. Siegelman's conviction, Dana Jill Simpson, a Republican lawyer, swore in an affidavit that she had heard another G.O.P. political operative, Bill Canary, boast in a phone call that his wife would "take care" of Mr. Siegelman and that Mr. Rove was involved in the planning. Mr. Canary's wife is Leura Canary, the United States attorney for Montgomery, and her office prosecuted Mr. Siegelman.

The House Judiciary Committee has prepared a report on the Siegelman case, and several other questionable prosecutions. Ms. Simpson told the committee staff under oath that Rob Riley — the son of Alabama's Republican governor, Bob Riley — told her that his father and Mr. Canary discussed the Siegelman case with Mr. Rove. She said the younger Mr. Riley also told her that Mr. Rove had spoken to the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section about getting Mr. Siegelman indicted.

If these charges are true, they suggest that the justice system was turned into a partisan tool, and that Mr. Siegelman's freedom may have been taken away because of his political allegiances.

Mr. Rove has already defied a Senate subpoena on the issue of politicized prosecutions, claiming executive privilege, and he seems intent on defying the House's subpoena. His claim of executive privilege is not only weak; it is shamefully cynical.

If he was drumming up political prosecutions in the Justice Department, and talking about it with operatives in Alabama, those conversations are not privileged. And if there is any privilege to be protected — such as a conversation with the president that did not involve illegality — he would still need to show up in Congress and plead the privilege to specific questions.

It is time for Michael Mukasey, the attorney general, to stand up for justice by enforcing Congress's subpoenas. If he will not do that, Congress must ensure that its investigative authority is not thwarted.

Mr. Rove seems willing to talk about this case everywhere except where he is required to: in Congress, in public, under oath. The American people, and Mr. Siegelman, are counting on Congress to find out the truth.

Hopefully, Rove will end up where he belongs in the end....purgatory.

[FOTD]

Will the congress have the balls to send Rove and/or Mukasey http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/waxman-threatens-mukasey-with-contempt-citation-2008-07-08.html to the dungeon?

http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/sielgelman-on-rove

If the democrats had pulled these type of shenanigans that discount the checks and balance of our country, they'd be sent to the capitol hill jail. Come to think of it, maybe Mr. Rove would show some compliance if he spent time in the slammer. Prohibit the executive privilege to pilfer our constitution.

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quote:Originally posted by FOTD

.epluribusmedia.net/sielgelman-on-rove

If the democrats had pulled these type of shenanigans that discount the checks and balance of our country, they'd be sent to the capitol hill jail.

Nah!  The Democrats are far more experienced at shenanigans and less likely to get caught.