JULY 13 2007
1. Davis asked the US House Judiciary Committee to investigate
2. Is Noel Hillman involved in Siegelman's case?
3. Siegelman continues to receive unusual treatment.
4. Political Justice Predates Gonzoles
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Davis seeks inquiry of Siegelman case
Staff Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama Congressman Artur Davis has asked the U.S. House
Judiciary Committee to investigate whether the conviction of former
Gov. Don Siegelman was a case of selective prosecution by the U.S.
Justice Department.
U.S. Rep. Davis, D-Birmingham, wrote a letter Friday to the chairman
of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Davis
asked Conyers to include the Siegelman case in the committee's
investigation of allegations of selective prosecution by the Justice
Department. Davis is a member of the Judiciary Committee.
<source>
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Noel Hillman and the Siegelman Case
Scott Horton at Harper's
Did Hillman’s deep involvement with the prosecution of Alabama
Governor Don Siegelman, Wisconsin administrator Georgia
Thompson, and a growing number of other cases in which political
manipulation of prosecutions are involved cost him a court of appeals
judgeship?
Congressional hearings conducted over the last five months have
raised very serious questions about the conduct of PIN under
Hillman’s leadership. Former U.S. attorneys in San Diego and
Arizona, for instance, expressed concern about the way in which
politically sensitive cases involving Republicans were being handled.
They noted extremely lengthy delays in getting authority to issue
subpoenas and bring charges before the grand jury. Hillman did not
stymie this process altogether, but it is clear that he used
bureaucratic procedures to put the breaks on. Conversely, other
federal prosecutors have indicated that when Democrats were in the
cross hairs, all caution was thrown to the winds, and intense pressure
was applied to bring and hype charges. The strongest examples of
this so far have come out of New Mexico, where David Iglesias
described the immense and improper pressure brought to bear to
indict a Democratic official before the 2006 elections. He resisted that
pressure, and his resistance cost him his job.
<more>
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Siegelman attorney questions his treatment,
describes long ride
Bob Johnson The Associated Press 7:09 p.m. ET
Siegelman's chief attorney, Vince Kilborn, questioned his client's
treatment and said the defense has been mostly unable to talk to him
while preparing legal pleadings seeking his release on bond by the
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kilborn said Siegelman has been assigned to a minimum-security
federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, which is about a 520-mile drive
from Siegelman's home in Birmingham. Kilborn said the former
governor is expected to be taken there next week from Oklahoma
City, where he is being held in a small cell at a federal prison transfer
station on the edge of the Oklahoma City airport.
Kilborn said defense attorney Susan James went to Oklahoma City
on Wednesday but could not see Siegelman until Friday, when she
spent about an hour and a half with him.
"She said he looks gaunt, but is holding his head high and is keeping
his spirits up," Kilborn said. Siegelman told James he was given
several bologna sandwiches to eat during the long trip to Oklahoma
City.
<more>
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Political Justice Predates Gonzales
by Glynn Wilson Locust Fork
While Washington press corps sharks circle and smell blood in the
water surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the case of
the firing of eight federal prosecutors, it might be worth it for them to
swim back and circle in a school around some historical information
proving that the U.S. Department of Justice has long been a cesspool
for political prosecutions.
But it is also worth noting that political prosecutions by the U.S.
Justice Department in Alabama did not even begin when Bush was
elected in 2000. To learn the whole truth, you have to delve even
further into the past.
Looking back on the record to the 1980s and the Department of
Justice under President Ronald Reagan, Vice President Herbert
Walker Bush and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals another
highly political time for justice in America.
....the Senate Judiciary Committee has not ruled out an investigation,
according to Tracy Schmaler, Leahy's inner circle communications
director, who said the door is still open.
"We will look at all relevant information," she said.
<more at Locust Fork>
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1. Davis asked the US House Judiciary Committee to investigate
2. Is Noel Hillman involved in Siegelman's case?
3. Siegelman continues to receive unusual treatment.
4. Political Justice Predates Gonzoles
..............................................................................................................
Davis seeks inquiry of Siegelman case
Staff Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama Congressman Artur Davis has asked the U.S. House
Judiciary Committee to investigate whether the conviction of former
Gov. Don Siegelman was a case of selective prosecution by the U.S.
Justice Department.
U.S. Rep. Davis, D-Birmingham, wrote a letter Friday to the chairman
of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Davis
asked Conyers to include the Siegelman case in the committee's
investigation of allegations of selective prosecution by the Justice
Department. Davis is a member of the Judiciary Committee.
<source>
..............................................................................................................
Noel Hillman and the Siegelman Case
Scott Horton at Harper's
Did Hillman’s deep involvement with the prosecution of Alabama
Governor Don Siegelman, Wisconsin administrator Georgia
Thompson, and a growing number of other cases in which political
manipulation of prosecutions are involved cost him a court of appeals
judgeship?
Congressional hearings conducted over the last five months have
raised very serious questions about the conduct of PIN under
Hillman’s leadership. Former U.S. attorneys in San Diego and
Arizona, for instance, expressed concern about the way in which
politically sensitive cases involving Republicans were being handled.
They noted extremely lengthy delays in getting authority to issue
subpoenas and bring charges before the grand jury. Hillman did not
stymie this process altogether, but it is clear that he used
bureaucratic procedures to put the breaks on. Conversely, other
federal prosecutors have indicated that when Democrats were in the
cross hairs, all caution was thrown to the winds, and intense pressure
was applied to bring and hype charges. The strongest examples of
this so far have come out of New Mexico, where David Iglesias
described the immense and improper pressure brought to bear to
indict a Democratic official before the 2006 elections. He resisted that
pressure, and his resistance cost him his job.
<more>
............................................................................................................
Siegelman attorney questions his treatment,
describes long ride
Bob Johnson The Associated Press 7:09 p.m. ET
Siegelman's chief attorney, Vince Kilborn, questioned his client's
treatment and said the defense has been mostly unable to talk to him
while preparing legal pleadings seeking his release on bond by the
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kilborn said Siegelman has been assigned to a minimum-security
federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, which is about a 520-mile drive
from Siegelman's home in Birmingham. Kilborn said the former
governor is expected to be taken there next week from Oklahoma
City, where he is being held in a small cell at a federal prison transfer
station on the edge of the Oklahoma City airport.
Kilborn said defense attorney Susan James went to Oklahoma City
on Wednesday but could not see Siegelman until Friday, when she
spent about an hour and a half with him.
"She said he looks gaunt, but is holding his head high and is keeping
his spirits up," Kilborn said. Siegelman told James he was given
several bologna sandwiches to eat during the long trip to Oklahoma
City.
<more>
.............................................................................................................
Political Justice Predates Gonzales
by Glynn Wilson Locust Fork
While Washington press corps sharks circle and smell blood in the
water surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the case of
the firing of eight federal prosecutors, it might be worth it for them to
swim back and circle in a school around some historical information
proving that the U.S. Department of Justice has long been a cesspool
for political prosecutions.
But it is also worth noting that political prosecutions by the U.S.
Justice Department in Alabama did not even begin when Bush was
elected in 2000. To learn the whole truth, you have to delve even
further into the past.
Looking back on the record to the 1980s and the Department of
Justice under President Ronald Reagan, Vice President Herbert
Walker Bush and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals another
highly political time for justice in America.
....the Senate Judiciary Committee has not ruled out an investigation,
according to Tracy Schmaler, Leahy's inner circle communications
director, who said the door is still open.
"We will look at all relevant information," she said.
<more at Locust Fork>
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