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JULY 01 20081. House panel seeks info on prosecutions
2. Six Questions for Paul Alexander, Author of Machiavelli’s Shadow
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House panel seeks info on prosecutions
UPI
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has sent the Justice Department
subpoenas for documents on the prosecution of two prominent
Democrats.
The two prosecutions under investigation are those of Dr. Cyril
Wecht, a well-known forensic pathologist who served for many years
as coroner in Allegheny County, the Pittsburgh area, and former
Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
Wecht's trial ended in a hung jury, and an appeals court has delayed
a retrial. Siegelman is fighting to overturn his conviction, and an
appellate court ordered his release on bail.
The committee sent a nine-page subpoena seeking documents on
both cases and communications between the White House,
prosecutors, members of Congress and others.
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Six Questions for Paul Alexander, Author of
Machiavelli’s Shadow
by Scott Horton of Harper's
....Of course, Rove has emotional ties to Alabama since his wife is
from Mobile and he scored some of his earliest political successes
there, but still, the state has only nine electoral votes. Why would
Bush’s brain care about a governor’s race in the heart of Dixie?
When Rove headed with Bush to Washington after winning the
presidency in 2000, Rove had one overriding goal, which he would
state publicly over the coming years: to set up what Rove termed “a
permanent Republican majority.” “When Karl got to the White House,”
Texas-based Republican strategists Mark Sanders told me, “he
immediately started putting together a plan for what was essentially
the Third Reich of Republican majority in this country. That was
absolutely his plan, a Republican majority domination not just of the U.
S. House, the U.S. Senate, and the presidency, but also state
legislatures across the country. This was not just a pie-in-the-sky
dream that Karl had. He wanted to see the Republican Party rule for
the next 30 to 40 years.”
To do this, Rove needed the South to remain solidly Republican, and
of looming concern was Don Siegelman—a popular, effective
governor in Alabama, and a Democrat. It is not surprising, then, that
Rove targeted Siegelman as someone who needed to be defeated
and then driven from
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