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Dana Jill Simpson Stands By Affidavit
The Republican lawyer who gave traction to former Gov. Don Siegelman's (D-AL) claims that his prosecution was politically motivated is standing by the affidavit she signed in May. She also raises new allegations of questionable -- and possibly illegal -- political machinations in Alabama.
The key points in Dana Jill Simpson's sworn statement have not been explicitly disproven, though they've been artfully denied by some. Not only has Simpson faced criticism in the Alabama press, but she's been attacked by some of the GOP operatives whom she accused of discussing ginning up a criminal investigation of Siegelman to get him to concede the 2002 election. Simpson hit back today at her detractors in a public statement available here. Siegelman was convicted of bribery in June 2006 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
In addition to standing her ground on her sworn statement, Simpson outlines an experience -- entirely separate from the 2002 talks about investigating Siegelman -- that prompted her to go to the Alabama bar to discuss ethical implications of what she knew about Republican tactics in the state:
A former lawyer came to see me and said he was sent by Governor Bob Riley and Gerald Dial. This man asked me to do things that I worried were illegal and certainly unethical in the Senate election contest against Democratic Senator Lowell Barron, Senator Zeb Little, Senator Roger Bedford and Senator Hank Sanders. I did not want to get mixed up in these things and told him I was not interested in any involvement.
Simpson has conducted opposition research for Republicans in several Alabama races, including for Riley, the current governor. The candidate names she lists are all state Senate Democrats.
Simpson also appears prepared to speak in public about what she knows, saying she will testify if called by any investigative agency or court. She just might get the chance, now that Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) has called on the House Judiciary Committee to look into the matter. Siegelman's lawyers have also said they may incorporate her affidavit into a motion for a retrial.
Comments (8)
Richard L. Adlof wrote on July 11, 2007 5:41 PM:Yet another old style Republican rearring their head in the name of god, country, law and order?
Another 1,000,000 or so and I might stop wishing that the Republican Party go the way of the Whigs and the Federalists.
St. Augustine wrote on July 11, 2007 5:55 PM:Praise the Lord, a republican with morals. Can the end be closer than we think?
JNagarya wrote on July 12, 2007 12:13 AM:This is huge.
Bushit better be in practice re. being AWOL when this explodes his bullshit assertions of Executive Privilege as effort to contain and cover up the innumerable public and increasingly public crimes which constitute his every statement and action.
To ignore the law except when it's to one's advantage, or someone else's disadvantage, and otherwise self-servingly twist it out of all recognizable reason, is the conduct of the thoroughly criminal.
jeffgee wrote on July 12, 2007 12:39 AM:Let's hope the Bushies don't burn her house this time,
timber wrote on July 12, 2007 4:44 AM:I think Keith Olbermann should feature this case in his show. This is really unfair and makes you angry.
Let us e-mail it to KO.
JNagarya wrote on July 12, 2007 12:52 PM:Let's hope the Bushies don't burn her house this time,
Posted by: jeffgee
Date: July 12, 2007 12:39 AM
You mean _again_, of course.
This one is arriving at Congress from _outside_ the DOJ, so is beyond not only DOJ effort to keep it suppressed in-house, but is also way outside any Executive Privilege claim, including any even more grandiose than that currently being claimed.
In emailing it to him, also include link/s to Scott Horton's writings on the case -- which are compelling read because, for one, a pleasure to read; for another, because he's a lawyer; and for another, because he's been on top of the case so provides the fullest picture and detailing of it.
As well, he was the NY Bar president consulted with some years ago by the DOD JAG about the torture issue.
RicK wrote on July 14, 2007 2:53 AM:Simpson states that "a former lawyer" who requested her to do things she believed were unethical (and that she sought advice from both an attorney and the Alabama Bar Association. What strikes me is that she doesn't identify the former lawyer but specifically describes him as a 'former' lawyer. Perhaps this is to provide a clue to the identity of person. There can't be too many disbarred Alabama attorneys and it seems that at least one of them worked for Gov. Riley.
BrickSykes wrote on July 18, 2007 5:22 AM:The underbelly of everything Bush us a ripe place that TPM should get to work on. All the Bushes are Level One operatives for the Global War for Oil Cabal, an extension of the original "Seven Sisters" of Oil World History.
This issue is another example of the chronic and habitual methodology employed by this Cabal over the last hundred years. Their predecessors took over the USA's Money Machine with the Federal Reserve, but everyone knows that.
Even they didn't know it would lead to this day. It is they who are out of Control, not the US Government. They know no other method but revenge and vindictiveness against Any and All who would stand in their way.
Until forces that truly represent the American Citizen direct their energies to ferret out the Criminal Mischief underlying the present day's superficial atrocities, they will continue unabated. "They" were behind every dictatorial takeover in Latin and South America, Vietnam, all over Africa, everywhere there were resources to be stolen to the benefit of American Commerce and Industry.
They have succeeded in gaining control over most of our Military, and have successfully oriented many American's minds to believe that God, even, is on their side. They must all of them be removed by some method.
Some sort of revolutionary drive must be undertaken to expose them, even work to eliminate them through whatever means, or they will continue. This is because they have corrupted enough of both parties such that justice is impossible on a legislative front, and certainly not from the WH or SCOTUS.