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NOVEMBER 01 2007
1. Siegelman Updates
2. Karl Rove's Dirty Politics in Alabama: Mayberry GOP
3. Ex-Official who Fired US Attorneys Speaks Out
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Siegelman Updates
Scott Horton of Harper's
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Karl Rove's Dirty Politics in Alabama
by Lou Dubose of the Washington Spectator
Mayberry GOP—The 2002 Alabama gubernatorial election included
the plot elements of a bad Southern Gothic: a Klan rally in the
backwoods; a political operative stealing the opposition's signs and
planting them at the rally; a lawyer stalking and photographing the
operative; incriminating photos used to extort a political candidate;
and a cabal of lawyers maneuvering a man into the courtroom of a
judge who promised to "hang" the defendant. There was even a
prosecutor "messing up" the case to see that the defendant made it
to the gallows.
What reads like a script written for Fred Thompson sent former
Democratic governor Don Siegelman to jail for eighty-eight months,
eliminating the politician Alabama Republicans called the "golden
child" of state politics. The story pivots on two politicized U.S.
Attorneys put in office by President Bush and former White House
senior aide Karl Rove, before Rove retired and returned to Texas.
Unlike the account of the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys, which exposed
former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's partisan zeal and utter
incompetence, this story features U.S. Attorneys who remain in office.
It also suggests that Rove played a critical and questionable role in
Siegelman's prosecution.
<link to source>
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Ex-Official who Fired US Attorneys Speaks
Out
Mary Whisner of Ad Trial Notes
Michael Battle, the former director of the Executive Office of U.S.
Attorneys, today spoke publicly about his role in the U.S. Attorney
firings for the first time. He was told to do it, and to tell them as little
as possible.
The people he called greeted him warmly — which made the part that
came next much more difficult.
"Listen," Battle said he told the U.S. attorneys. "I've been asked to
call you and advise you that you're being asked to submit your
resignation as U.S. attorney."
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by
1. Siegelman Updates
2. Karl Rove's Dirty Politics in Alabama: Mayberry GOP
3. Ex-Official who Fired US Attorneys Speaks Out
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Siegelman Updates
Scott Horton of Harper's
- Career Prosecutor Says There is no Basis to Go
After Siegelman
Just a few days after reporting that the senior most career
prosecutor on the Siegelman case had concluded there was
insufficient basis to proceed on the matter...a second senior
prosecutor... reached the same conclusion.
A Whistleblower’s Story
...Several Alabama newspapers have quoted Rob Riley
disputing [Whistleblower] Simpson’s version of events ... [he]
told a Birmingham News reporter that he had not seen her in
years and never tried cases with her. But she has boxes of
records proving they tried many cases together over the
years...
Carlson: Siegelman and the Loyal Bushies
...the local U.S. attorney’s husband, Bill Canary, a top
consultant to Alabama Republicans, said his “girls” — his wife
and a colleague — would take care of Siegelman, all with the
OK of his good friend and Bush adviser, Karl Rove.
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Karl Rove's Dirty Politics in Alabama
by Lou Dubose of the Washington Spectator
Mayberry GOP—The 2002 Alabama gubernatorial election included
the plot elements of a bad Southern Gothic: a Klan rally in the
backwoods; a political operative stealing the opposition's signs and
planting them at the rally; a lawyer stalking and photographing the
operative; incriminating photos used to extort a political candidate;
and a cabal of lawyers maneuvering a man into the courtroom of a
judge who promised to "hang" the defendant. There was even a
prosecutor "messing up" the case to see that the defendant made it
to the gallows.
What reads like a script written for Fred Thompson sent former
Democratic governor Don Siegelman to jail for eighty-eight months,
eliminating the politician Alabama Republicans called the "golden
child" of state politics. The story pivots on two politicized U.S.
Attorneys put in office by President Bush and former White House
senior aide Karl Rove, before Rove retired and returned to Texas.
Unlike the account of the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys, which exposed
former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's partisan zeal and utter
incompetence, this story features U.S. Attorneys who remain in office.
It also suggests that Rove played a critical and questionable role in
Siegelman's prosecution.
<link to source>
..................................................................................................................................................
Ex-Official who Fired US Attorneys Speaks
Out
Mary Whisner of Ad Trial Notes
Michael Battle, the former director of the Executive Office of U.S.
Attorneys, today spoke publicly about his role in the U.S. Attorney
firings for the first time. He was told to do it, and to tell them as little
as possible.
The people he called greeted him warmly — which made the part that
came next much more difficult.
"Listen," Battle said he told the U.S. attorneys. "I've been asked to
call you and advise you that you're being asked to submit your
resignation as U.S. attorney."
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| photo: Huffington Post Feaga and Franklin defend their decisions in the Siegelman Prosecution |
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| photo: Hubbard Website The Hubbard's (center) and the Canary's at the Bush Inaugural Ball Bill Canary reportedly told Rob Riley that his "girls" would take care of Siegelman. One of his "girls" is his wife Leura Garret Canary, Bush appointed US attorney. |
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| photo by Smialowski/Getty Images Mike Battle was instructed by Gonzoles to ask for the resignation of seven attorneys general who were not "loyal Bushies". The story of Don Siegelman is about the "loyal Bushies.' |