This is only going to get worse: Attorneygate takes another twist

[JayFarrar]

From the AP

Forty-four former state attorneys general have asked Congress to investigate whether politics at the Justice Department influenced the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges.
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The group includes Democrats and Republicans and is led by Jeff Modisett, an Indiana Democrat, Bob Abrams, a New York Democrat, Bob Stefan, a Kansas Republican, and Grant Woods, an Arizona Republican.

Relevant bit
Last month, a Republican lawyer who worked on the campaign of Siegelman's opponent in 2006 signed a sworn affidavit saying that she overheard conversations among GOP operatives suggesting that the White House was involved in Siegelman's prosecution.

I'll let the legal scholars argue, but if true, it's time for Bush to go.

 

[slappy4428]

If Siegelman gets a new trial, then Richard Scrushy would get a new trial. And that rat-******* needs to rot in a jail cell for every second of his sentence.

And am sure it's more than Bush.. remember, Alabama was Karl Rove's trial balloon in the new GOP... he used fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms to turn a state that was soundly Democratic into a GOP stronghold....

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

If Siegelman gets a new trial, then Richard Scrushy would get a new trial. And that rat-******* needs to rot in a jail cell for every second of his sentence.

And am sure it's more than Bush.. remember, Alabama was Karl Rove's trial balloon in the new GOP... he used fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms to turn a state that was soundly Democratic into a GOP stronghold....

Alabama was long gone before Rove got there, but slap's right in a general sense. The Rover first practiced dirty tricks in a judicial campaign there.
This is why all of this stuff is important. The DOJ as a political hit squad?
Please.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

I hope that outlasting this administration is as close as I come to doing hard time.

I mean, every time the Constitution drops the soap in the shower, there's Bush and Cheney.....

 

[Point of Order]

If Siegelman gets a new trial, then Richard Scrushy would get a new trial. And that rat-******* needs to rot in a jail cell for every second of his sentence.

And am sure it's more than Bush.. remember, Alabama was Karl Rove's trial balloon in the new GOP... he used fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms to turn a state that was soundly Democratic into a GOP stronghold....

Alabama was long gone before Rove got there, but slap's right in a general sense. The Rover first practiced dirty tricks in a judicial campaign there.
This is why all of this stuff is important. The DOJ as a political hit squad?
Please.

Probably the definitive piece on how Rove got his start rigging elections:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Great get, Point.
I remembered that piece too late.

 

[Killick]

White House comment: YEEE-HAWWW!!!
http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/images/general_mo****in_lee.jpg

 

[dog428]

I'm with slappy and agree that Scrushy should have his ass in jail for years and years to come.

But I can't help feeling sorry for Siegelman. Dude got the absolute shaft by being tied to Scrushy in that trial. Had they tried 'em seperately, Siegelman's case probably gets tossed after the prosecution presents its case.

They had nothing on those two. I had no problem with Scrushy going down -- that was a makeup.

 

[slappy4428]

I'm with slappy and agree that Scrushy should have his ass in jail for years and years to come.

But I can't help feeling sorry for Siegelman. Dude got the absolute shaft by being tied to Scrushy in that trial. Had they tried 'em seperately, Siegelman's case probably gets tossed after the prosecution presents its case.

They had nothing on those two. I had no problem with Scrushy going down -- that was a makeup.

Was the best makeup since OJ was convicted in the civil trial.
But if Siegelman goes free, Scrushy does too in the second and last bite at the criminal apple.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

A reminder...

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

A reminder...

All the criminal-in-chief sees is the first letter....

 

[Football_Bat]

A reminder...

All the criminal-in-chief sees is the first letter....

...but he is secretly dyslexic and thinks it says "Me."