Comments (14)

Rusty Austin wrote on June 27, 2007 6:24 PM:

WTF? If this is worth 10 years, Abramoff should get 1000 and DeLay, 1,000,000.

ifthethunderdontgetya wrote on June 27, 2007 6:30 PM:

Can a rational person believ that Siegelman got a fair trial?

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000351

"A lobbyist named Lanny Young secured a plea bargain deal by agreeing to give evidence against Siegelman. Young testified that he gave Siegelman specialty advertising items of some value, but he noted that he did exactly the same thing for Republican U.S. Senator Jefferson Sessions and Karl Rove’s protégé Bill Pryor. The federal attorney insisted that this information be suppressed, and the judge trying the case concurred. This is one of a number of bizarre rulings by the judge which were consistently highly prejudicial to Siegelman. And, once more, it reflects a double standard: one rule applies to Siegelman, but another rule altogether applies to Sessions and Pryor."

Herb wrote on June 27, 2007 6:48 PM:

SIEGELMAN SHOULD APPEAL ON EVERY GROUND IMAGINABLE [AND HIS WIFE SHOULD SUE FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, AND LOSS-OF-CONSORTIUM]. AND HE SHOULD SUBPOENA EVERYBODY: GWB, ALBERTO, ROVE, THE OLD US ATTY, THE NEW ONE, ALL THE CAREER-PEOPLE WHO'VE QUIT WORKING FOR THE COURTS. AND IF/WHEN HE GETS TO THE SUPREME COURT, HE'LL ASK ALITO & ROBERTS TO RECUSE THEMSELVES -- FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. KARL ROVE PUTTING PEOPLE IN PRISON FOR POLITICAL "CRIMES" IS SO F**KING OFFENSIVE TO EVERYTHING THE U.S.A. HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR... PRETTY SOON, THEY'LL LET HIM TORTURE OPPOSING CANDIDATES DURING ELECTIONS.

Been there wrote on June 27, 2007 7:35 PM:

Give me the power of the DOJ and I can convict anyone of something. They will share the shit out of everyone close to you, offer deals, then convince the jury that you wouldn't be there if you you weren't guilty. And to think I used to support the death penalty.

Nestor wrote on June 27, 2007 8:17 PM:

Does anyone have any idea how long it will be before the appeal springs Siegalman? Is the best guess a year?
I can't imagine him getting anywhere close to 10 years... but if that's the case, when Ted Stevens goes to court, they better ask for ten times that.

Mark wrote on June 27, 2007 10:12 PM:

Just another scumbag convicted Democrat criminal.

Scooter Libby should be freed ASAP.

anon wrote on June 27, 2007 11:54 PM:

In AL, people always bring up Guy Hunt while talking about Siegelman "Them Dems took down Gov. Hunt on a technicality and, hey, he was innocent, and he got pardoned."

Anyway, it's interesting to compare Hunt's sentence of 5 years probation and a $12k fine for pocketing $200k of his inaugural fund to Siegelman's suggested sentence for, um, an apparently kinda corrupt board appointment to a basically meaningless board.

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Fozzetti wrote on June 28, 2007 12:39 AM:

You ought to show photos of the apparently corrupt Judge & Prosecutors. They're the guilty ones.

JD21 wrote on June 28, 2007 7:11 AM:

Sorry to go off topic but this is really bugging me. I for one am canceling my online subscription to the Wall Street Journal if the Bancroft family sells out to the right-wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch. Conservatives complain incessantly about liberal billionaires like Soros lurking in the shadows. Yet somehow Republicans are unable to pinpoint Soros' levers that exercise anywhere near the influence of the national Fox News Network and the rest of the Murdoch media empire. Despite Soros' alleged manipulations, Republicans have been quite successful in getting themselves elected until the last election when their incompetence and corruption were just too much for voters to continue to stomach.

Is it a coincidence that the Bush Republican’s rise coincided with Murdoch’s dominance of the media? Murdoch’s Fox Network famously called the 2000 election in favor of the Republican candidate, causing all the other networks to follow suit. Only later after the impact of the Democratic candidate being the underdog was felt did Fox News admit that it had no basis at all to call the election and, indeed, was suspiciously on the phone with Republican campaign officials that night. In the next Presidential election Fox parroted dubious smears to the Democratic candidate from a partisan group with murky origins (the Swifties). A documentary on Fox showed how these actions were not a coincidence and how the “news” network circulated daily memos instructing their broadcasters on which party line of the day to tow, such as the Democratic Presidential candidate being a “flip flopper.” Indeed, a Fox News alum has taken the top media position within the White House itself.

Murdoch himself has slipped in publicly admitting that he used his network to try to manipulate the country concerning the war in Iraq. Murdoch is not interesting in the goal of reporting the news to reveal the truth, but rather in the goal of using the news as a tool to manipulate the public to promote his right-wing agenda.

In short, Murdoch’s claim that he will be non-partisan in taking over the Wall Street Journal is not credible. He has made similar promises before only to reneg.

Billy Pilgrim wrote on June 28, 2007 9:18 AM:

JD21

The Murdoch story is indeed troubling. The guy was not even born in America, yet he's played a lion's share in the twin catastrophes of the Bush Administration and the Iraq war.

It's time for a revolution to bring down these megalomaniac control freaks.

Spread the word -- television is for dummies!

Pepper wrote on June 28, 2007 3:01 PM:

Fuller, Mark E.
Born 1958 in Enterprise, AL

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama
Nominated by George W. Bush on August 1, 2002

Eve Duncan wrote on June 28, 2007 10:22 PM:

There is no justice for Dems, progressive variety or otherwise, here in Alabama.

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