Are you willing to send an email in support of Siegelman's Civil Rights? ... and YOURS?

[JohnWxy]

Please read about the Cheney-Rove government's perversion of the purpose of the Justice Department to conduct a purge of a political opponent and contemplate the fact that if the Cheney-Rove government had deemed you worthy of it's attention it would be YOU sitting in jail right now.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x433033

If we do not speak up against this crime (fifty two former State Attorneys GEneral have asked the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the prosecution of Don Siegelmann, former Governor of the state of Alabama.) these enemies of democracy will realize they CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. Don't just assume "somebody" will do the right thing. That "somebody" is YOU.


IF the House Judiciary Committee recieved thousands of emails about Siegelmann's unjust conviction, their is a greater chance the perpetrators (Karl Rove and the PRosecutor, Canary, wife of the political opponent of Siegelmann, to name two) of this travesty might actually be brought to justice.


Wouldn't it be GREAT if Democratic Underground played a part in bringing Karl Rove to justice?!!!!!

[JohnWxy]

1. House jusiciary committee letter (to Gonzales in 2007) seeking answers to questions re a number of

questionable activities at 'Justice, mentioned the Seigelmann prosecution. The letter also, was questioning the figing of U.S. Attorney's who were consicered by the Cheney-Rove government as not sufficiently diligent in pursuing political prosecutions of Democratic targets.

http://blog.al.com/bn/2007/07/the_letter_house_judiciary_see.html

The 2006 conviction of Alabama's former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman for bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud has raised serious concerns. Mr. Siegelman was indicted in 2004, two years after losing the governor's race by a mere 3,200 votes in the closest governor's election in Alabama state history. In May, 2007, Jill Simpson, a Republican attorney in Alabama who had worked for Mr. Siegelman's 2002 Republican opponent, swore in an affidavit that in 2002, a former protege of Karl Rove told a small group of Republican political operatives that Karl Rove and two U.S. Attorneys in Alabama were working to "take care of" Mr. Siegelman. The Rove protege, Bill Canary, is married to Leura Canary, who President Bush appointed in 2001 to be the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Alabama. In 2005, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Alabama indicted Mr. Siegelman (Ms. Canary recused herself from participating in the Siegelman case in 2002). In her affidavit, Ms. Simpson said that Bill Canary told her and two colleagues that "Karl had spoken with the Department of Justice and the Department was already pursuing Don Siegelman." The phone call that Ms. Simpson was referring to occurred in November, 2002, when Mr. Siegelman was seeking a recount of the vote he had just lost, and when Republican operatives were concerned that Mr. Siegelman could be a significant political threat in future elections.

There have been several reported irregularities in the case against Mr. Siegelman that raise questions about his prosecution. In 2004, charges against Mr. Siegelman were dropped by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama before the case went to trial, and the judge harshly rebuked prosecutors bringing that case. In the RICO case filed in the Middle District of Alabama in 2005, there have been allegations of jury tampering involving two of the jurors who convicted Mr. Siegelman. These and other irregularities prompted 44 former state attorneys general to sign a petition "urging the United States Congress to investigate the circumstances surrounding the investigation, prosecution, sentencing and detention" of Mr. Siegelman.

[EFerrari]

2. John, do you have the email address we should use?

:hi:

[JohnWxy]

3. here are some links to Congress - chairman of Congr Judiciary Committe and others

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x433033#433348

[EFerrari]

4. Thank you. Sorry, this coffee is not kicking in today.

:)

[JohnWxy]

5. Selective Justice in Alabama - (& Karl Rove's role) Time magazine -

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1668220-1,00.html

The Young transcripts will probably add fuel to charges that the Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys