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Simpson Responds to Rove
Yesterday we brought you Karl Rove's expansive denial of Republican lawyer Dana Jill Simpson's testimony to Congress and comments to 60 Minutes.
Simpson responded last night on MSNBC's Dan Abrams show: "Since Karl Rove has said that and he feels so good saying that, what I want him to do is go and swear before the United States Congress and swear what he's saying is true."
Simpson also responded to accusations from the Alabama Republican Party that Simpson had never worked for the party and no one had ever heard of her. She said that phone records would show conversations with party officials in Alabama and Washington, D.C. in 2002 and 2006.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Don Siegelman case in October, Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) produced phone records showing that Simpson had spoken with William Canary, a Republican operative, on the day in 2002 that she said Canary had told her on a conference call that his wife and another U.S. attorney would "take care" of Siegelman.





Comments (26)
60 Minutes did a good job on the story, but there was more to be covered.
I remember reading in Ken Silverstein's Washington Babylon blog that Jill Simpson's house had been burned down as a result of her affadavit on Rove. Was that true?
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000351
February 26, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for pointing to the Harpers piece. In context, it sounds true. Jeez, she's the next Erin Brokovitch and the lady from Enron and "The Insider" combined. This seems considerably MORE dangerous for her since these particular Alabamans think they create their own laws/reality.
I LOVE DANA JILL SIMPSON!! COURAGEOUS!
FROM HARPERS PIECE: """""... She’s been smeared as “crazy” and as a “disgruntled contract bidder.” And something nastier: after her intention to speak became known, Simpson’s house was burned to the ground, and her car was driven off the road and totaled. Clearly, there are some very powerful people in Alabama who feel threatened. Her case starts to sound like a chapter out of John Grisham’s book The Pelican Brief. ..."""""
February 26, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boy would I like to be a fly on the wall in Mukasey's office these days. How is he going to duck this? If he's smart he'll get out in front of it with a special prosecutor who agrees to crush this thing. Or, at the very least, keep it focused on Alabama--but even then, who thinks the Canarys won't sing (damn I'm good) under oath?
Also, anyone know if Noel Hillman has lawyered up yet?
February 26, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone waterboard Rove, please.
February 26, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
...a bird in the hand.
Seriously, I think a good old fashioned stupid look and an internal investigation with no report to congress are in order, here. It's worked swimmingly up to this point.
Fly in the face of reason--this is the way of the elusive beltway shitbird we know and love.
February 26, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Kathy Bates would be perfect for this role in a movie on the subject. She's nearly a spit'n image already!
February 26, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think we'd all love to see Karl Rove go before Congress...
not going to happen, unfortunately.
I wonder if McCain or Obama will tell the public what they find upon becoming President...
February 26, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some might think Mukasey's in a tight spot, but given his past reluctance to investigate, rather prosecute, the illegal Bush spying on Americans via the telecom industry, several attrocities by Blackwater in Iraq, his refusal to give direct answers to direct, legitimate questions to Congressional inquires, there is no need to expect him to investigate nor prosecute wrong doing by Karl Rove.
If there is an investigation, we can all bet Karl Rove will be protected by the Department of Justice in the same manner as the wrong doings of George W. Bush and Richard "Dick" Cheney are protected; there aren't going to be any investigations.
And there arent' going to be any investigations, prosecutions and dismisals of AGs, nor cooperating judges, who were "just doing their job" [albite, political] of making life hard for Don Seigelman.
Mukasey's not in a tight spot unless he choses to be. By his own admission, Mukasey goes home at night and goes to sleep.
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
February 26, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
With all respect to Kathy Bates, let's use the original, she's a hoot!
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
February 26, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think she looks more like Mason Reese, actually.
Time will tell on this one re: Mukasey's response.
February 26, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
This story has to survive the weekend if it's ever going to get on Mukasey's radar. Rove, et al, are just waiting out the clock to see if this fizzles.
February 26, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mukasey?
Forget it, won't happen.
But the John Edwards Justice Dep't might consider this worth a closer look...
February 26, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can the FCC be pressured to conduct an investigation into the blackout? This seems like an Abuse of Public Interest case if there ever was one, and a much bigger case than Janet Jackson's boob or Howard Stern's mouth.
February 26, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let this be a lesson to people who work in these situations: get yourself a paper trail or tape recordings before you make your accusations, or else be re-painted as an angry nut-job, and it will remain a "he-said-she-said" pissing match on opposing news shows.
February 26, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
The FCC is 3 to 2 Republican. The chairman is Kevin Martin, a Bush appointee, who is doing his damnedest (sp) to give away control of the free internet(as you now enjoy it) to the telecom industry. Bush is protected there, too. The FCC will not be conducting any investigations into why the screen went dark in North Alabama.
We will all hear from Martin soon when he tries to auction away the airways in such away as to annihilate small media.
Hopefully, this auction can be held back until he is removed after the elections.
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
February 26, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
it took kkkarl 5 trips before the Grand Jury before he got his "Plame" recollections straight
I think kkkarl will pass on that chance to set the record straight ...
February 26, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republican Party:
Just one goose step away from becoming the Nazi Party.
February 26, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
So will Congress call Rove back to testify?
Seems like she knows she has proof/records.
February 26, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's clear. A Dem in the White House, John Edwards as Attorney General, and a formal investigation of this, and other, Bush era
hijinks. I don't think Bush will give blanket pardons of his cronies
before leaving office (though I wouldn't put it beyond him to try...
wouldn't that be the crowning glory of this bunch of creeps). Just give me Rove's head on the DOJ platter....
February 26, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, it's all about the boob. You know, the one nobody in the nation saw becuase NOBODY watches the half-time show on TV and NOBODY can see the halftime show from the stands.
February 27, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't be so quick to lean on phone records. The telecoms will make those records disappear, and they won't be able to be prosecuted for it, seeing as how patriotic it will be of them to protect this great nation from southern trailer trash terrorists.
February 27, 2008 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if Jill Simpson had an RNC e-mail account...
Wonder if Rove "never met her" because he only e-mailed her through his automatic-deletion RNC e-mails.
I know who I believe.
February 27, 2008 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
It has become increasingly difficult to recall exactly how long it has been since we have been subjected to the complete corruption of our public institutions. I suspect that for most persons who know the fundamental difference between right and wrong it has been an eternity.
There has been a dam built for the purpose of blocking the truth that if it were to be broken I am very worried the flood may destroy our nation. The criminal in the WH and the criminals in congress are protected by this dam and even though breaking it will make a hell of a mess there are few choices left that will assure we remain a free people.
February 27, 2008 2:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I used to defend Madam Speaker et al -thinking how can they not bring justice to this criminal enterprise aka GWB 43 . Now belatedly I realize that the Vichy dEMOCRATIC Leadership are nothing but enablers to Bushco . Currently I am praying that the next Presidential Administration will actually protect & defend the Constitution.
Simpson is a very ,very brave individual . The thugs in Alabama perpetrating this political incarceration of Segilman are the sons & grandsons of the same KKK'ers that assasinated the little girls with the bombs in the church ,and shot Medger Evers,to name only a few of their terrorist acts - This is a political lynching . ( Mukasey is Jewish -these aLABAMA thugs are anti-semitic as well as racist -he Mukasey should standup to these goons -where by the way is jOE Liberman on this deal ?) For Simpson to do what she is doing speaks volumes of her courage and responsibilty as an American Citizen.Finally this most not stand -there are at least fifty former state's attorney generals that have denounced the Sigleman case as a 'show trial " - ( SEE TRUTHOUT )
How can we protect Simpson & KEEP THIS ISSUE ALIVE - 'THEY" after all did burn her house down !
February 27, 2008 5:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
When will someone throw Rove into Gitmo?
February 27, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok here is the deal. The AG wont do squat. Period. He was put in place to protect the president and Rove leads right to the front door. But the US Attorney and Prosecuter after losing an appeal could be sued in civil court for wrongful imprisonment and that discovery could lead to both Roves and Bushes demise after a democrat is in the white house. Then with the discovery from that case we might even get treason.
February 28, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink