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JULY 18 20081. Gov. Don Siegelman at Netroots Nation via AirAmerica
2. Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law
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Gov. Don Siegelman at Netroots Nation via
AirAmerica
by Sam Seder of Air America.
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Interview starts at 10:00 minutes.
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By now many are familiar with the case of Don Siegelman. A very
popular former Democratic Alabama Governor seen as an electoral
threat to unseat Republican Bob Riley. Faced with the most popular
Democrat in generations, Congressional testimony reveals that
Republican operatives in Alabama and Karl Rove's dirty tricks shop in
the White House used the prosecution powers of the DOJ's United
States Attorneys to send Don Siegelman to jail on trumped up
charges.
The dogged reporting by on-line journalists such as Talking Points
Memo, Larisa Alexandrovna and Scott Horton, Congressional
hearings and a 60 minutes interview forced an appellate Court to
reexamine the Siegelman case. Within days Siegelman was released
from prison pending his appeal and the court found "tthat his appeal
raises substantial questions of law or fact...". Reagan's Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh and 54 former US Attorneys of all
political stripes from across the country smell a rat. Not surprisingly,
that rat smells a lot like Karl Rove, the Fox news commentator and
former White House dirty trickster.
For over a year and a half now we have known of the US Attorney
firings scandal that has forced the resignations of countless DOJ
officials. The Siegelman case is the other side of the coin of the
corruption of the Department of Justice under the Bush Administration.
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Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan
Attacks on Rule of Law
by Ari Melber of The Nation
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...Cass Sunstein, an informal adviser to Barack Obama from the
University of Chicago Law School, urged caution in prosecuting
criminal conduct from the current administration, while also noting that
egregious crimes should not be ignored. Prosecuting government
officials risks a "cycle" of criminalizing public service, he argued, and
Democrats should avoid replicating retributive efforts like the
impeachment of President Clinton--or even the "slight appearance" of
it....
"Give me a break," responded former Alabama Governor Don
Siegelman, when told about Sunstein's advice during an interview with
The Nation.
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