Incredibly, the Bush-appointed prosecutors in the Siegelman case (who are, inexplicably, still on the job!) have now requested an even longer sentence for the former Democratic Gov. of Alabama who was railroaded as part of a Rove-led political prosecution.
RAW STORY offers the amazing details on the twenty-year sentence now being sought by the federal prosecutors to replace the seven years he was originally screwed with. The entire prosecution needs to be entirely thrown out, just as the case against Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was.
And where is AG Eric Holder in all of this? I’d sure as hell love to know, as I asked in my April 13th letter to him on behalf of VR’s Restore Justice at Justice campaign requesting an investigation of all illegal, Bush-era political prosecutions. (If you haven’t yet, please sign on to that letter, to add your voice!)
My brief interview with Siegelman at last Summer’s Democratic National Convention in Denver (originally posted here), is re-posted at left, wherein he warned, if action wasn’t taken “Karl Rove is simply going to get in his get-away car and thumb his nose at the Constitution, the Congress and the American People.”
VROOOM….
obama and his crew are proving to be extremely disappointing.
yeah, change you can believe in…
He is starting to make noise about cutting Social Security too – something that he hammered mclame with during campaign.
sorry gang – if this is the best we can do, should just vote 3rd party…
Should = Must
WHERE
Must = “outlaw all electronic vote tabulation devices”
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That’s a start.
No matter what party, the same people are going to run it. As in not anyone we elected. I think that’s perfectly crystal clear. The best we can do will be a lot more than simply voting.
Yeah 99, like outlawing these fscking electronic vote tabulation devices, and proactively getting hard core on … wow I’m burned out.., um… oh yeah vote caging and cracking down on … um .. um ..
This news is utterly disgusting. It’s downright Rovian, take a bad situation, make it worse and rub their noses in it just to make sure everybody gets the message. Yea, yea, I’ll send more emails (calling became too expensive) to the relevant parties but so far that hasn’t been working.
Thanks for the update Brad.
i can’t find the words to express how disgusted i am with the current admin and ag holder
siegleman does not take a nickel for himself and he is prosecuted while stevens in alaska got a quarter million dollar remodel and is let go scot free because the last admin so bungled the case
btw the guy from the aclu was censored last night on racheal when he was talking about the last admins torture program…another thing that hasnt changed from last admin to current…censorship
yesterday the current pres,in explaining why he was with holding the torture pics said,”a small number of people did this” and “the investigations are closed”…what a crock
we know the torture was approved by bush with cheneys urging so if you are going to lie current pres just stop talking
maxine waters pressed ag holder (cspan-3 house hearing) about when he intends to get new attorneys in place,and she mentioned “problems” …his reply was first new set of us attorneys should be announced in “couple weeks”
Yeah, Karen, it seems lying by the MSM is okay, but, free speech involving telling the truth is not okay. WTF?
I am absolutely shocked that Siegelman’s 2002 Victory in the Alabama Governor’s Race was stolen. Then he’s persecuted because Republicans want to make sure there are no more fair elections or Democrats available to run. And Obama does nothing.
Interest rate ceilings are blocked in Congress. And Obama does nothing.
I am ashamed.
Is there no actual compassion within our government? Will honor, justice, and regard for humanity ever get to win again within this government of the United States of America? War criminals, who lied to start this horror, are special guests on FOX news. Hundreds of thousands of human beings have been killed or maimed, or emotionally damaged into complete ruin. And they can still pull strings, Cheney/Bushco.
This honest man our friend Don on our side, is being unfairly incarcerated, and when the truth starts emerging in the world of electrons and ink, more power is abused by them, by way of their planted attorneys. . I think I have to repeat it, to myself (?!?!) to fully comprehend the psychopathological, sequential criminal violations, by these SOBs. These facts, need exposing MORE, bypassing MSM. Some still admire them. You’d think these DREADFUL HUMAN BEINGS, WITH ANY HONEST ASSESSMENT WOULD INDICT THEM, BUT INSTEAD, THEY ARE ON TV, lying, lying, lying. We have a mafia operating as the RNC. They own the whole of Rupert Murdoch’s empire. And more.
…not only must this fucking travesty end … But it should backfire on the bastards that initiated it . . .
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I wouldn’t have minded this egregiously long period of time getting the US Attorney mess sorted out if they’d have put back in the ones fired by * and fired the others, letting underlings punt while filling all the top spots.
Even as I am appalled that this area of business has been known to be of particular importance to get cleaned up and functioning right again for a couple YEARS now, and so should have been completely handled extremely quickly, I could have settled for that, things being as hectic as they are.
Obviously, NO attention has been paid to getting a properly functioning Justice Department back, or no way would these people have been left to cook this up. The whole gang of partisan underperformers put in place by Rove and Company have simply been left there to play their games for nearly FOUR months.
What? Did Obama think they would be so thrilled by his charm and that he didn’t fire them that they’d just suddenly be capable of doing their jobs and forget all their vicious partisan perfidies?
They’ve done a swell job of making Obama and Holder look like boobs, here, but they’ve damn well helped them.
Heres a link to an old Ron Paul interview called “The American Power Structure where he talks about who really controls America. Now I have a slight inkling about those plutocrats 99 talks about sometimes. For anyone who doesn’t already know its an eye opener. Its Mr Paul in 1988. What a lovely man he was then and still is.
I’ve simply run out of things to say about the Siegelman case; this must be how people in the Soviet Union felt when their neighbors and writers and dissidents were sent to the Gulag.
Updates:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/appeals-court-wont-hear-siegelman-case-meaning-its-likely-hell-return-to-jail/
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0509/Obama_to_replace_US_Attorneys.html
Patience, folks, there’s a lot happening right now.
One thing about the Siegelman case still under Bush era federal prosecutors; if they dug a hole too deep (which I believe thsy did in grand, cavernous fashion) they will keep digging out of habit. And in the process, they uncover their malfeasance all the more meaningfully.
This double-down by Roves own DOJ minions on Siegelman reminds me of Cheney’s media blitz. The louder they cry, the more desperate they look.
It is quite doubtful that Siegelman’s justice will come at the hands of Bush era prosecutors. Before it reaches that point again, there will be heads rolling all over Alabama, and their replacements aren’t going to be going after Siegelman.
They may want all the prosecution’s Siegelman court documents that haven’t been conveniently shredded, but it won’t be to rebuild a trumped-up case against Siegelman, it will be to start formulating what charges will be filed against Rove and his illegal Alabama posse.