« previous | MUCK HOME | next »
Davis Pressing on for Siegelman Review
Even though Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is moving on, Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) will still push for a review of former Gov. Don Siegleman's (D-AL) case to investigate whether it was politically motivated, he told the Birmingham News:
"That fact that [Gonzales] is leaving should not deter Congress from continuing to dig into claims of selective prosecution or abuse of power," Davis said in an interview a few minutes after Gonzales announced his resignation.Davis and three other members of the House Judiciary Committee have asked the agency to turn over records related to criminal cases brought against three people, including former Gov. Don Siegelman. Those documents have not yet been provided.
"The public still has a right to know just how politicized the Department of Justice became in the course of this presidency," Davis said.
Siegelman was sentenced to seven years in prison after a jury convicted him of granting a health care executive a seat on a public board in exchange for a contribution to an education lottery fund. Questions about the genesis of the case cropped up when a Republican lawyer signed a sworn affidavit implicating Karl Rove in the decision to prosecute the former Democratic governor.
Comments (8)
barkleyg wrote on August 28, 2007 3:16 PM:Scott Horton over at No Comment has a great series of articles on the travesty of this prosecution. This case is a great example of what is wrong in King George's America.
Look at the right column and look for the Siegelman
Chronicles.
Another reason of why everyday I am less proud to be an AMERICAN!!
http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment
barkleyg wrote on August 28, 2007 3:17 PM:Scott Horton over at No Comment has a great series of articles on the travesty of this prosecution. This case is a great example of what is wrong in King George's America.
Look at the right column and look for the Siegelman
Chronicles.
Another reason of why everyday I am less proud to be an AMERICAN!!
http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment
anon wrote on August 28, 2007 4:44 PM:I second Scott Horton's work on the Siegelman case.
Murphy Garmon wrote on August 28, 2007 7:33 PM:Scott Horton is doing a great job in making the nation aware of the injustice of the Don Siegelman case. We must continue to hammer away at the truth until Don is freed.
Mark wrote on August 28, 2007 8:16 PM:Siegelman is one of the most corrupt Alabama politicans in the history of the state.
The outrage is that he only got 7 years in prison.
JEP wrote on August 29, 2007 12:49 AM:THIS- http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/12_week.gif -all started abut the time Siegelman got sentenced, wonder if it is just a cosmic coincidence.
And it just keeps getting worse.
JEP wrote on August 29, 2007 1:00 AM:Mark must not be from Alabama, if he thinks Siegelman's the most corrupt resident that ever graced the Governor's mansion...
Auto-trolls?
Mark wrote on August 29, 2007 7:29 PM:He is one of the most corrupt as Lucy Baxley can attest to that.
You people have the nerve to defend Don Siegelman after now his aide is going to prison for corruption?
Wait till Max Cleland gets arrested for ordering his aide to steal campaign material from John Edwards.