The Governor Who Rove May Have Sent to Jail

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This is part two of the post below. It's heavy reading, but it's very interesting. I think you'll agree

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The permanent Republican majority: Daughter of jailed governor sees White House hand in her father's fall

To fully understand what the Don Siegelman case is about, please see “Part I – The Political Prisoner” of this series.

Throughout a week of phone and email discussions, Ms. Siegelman spoke and wrote about her father’s conviction and imprisonment on bribery and conspiracy charges and about the continued harassment of the family and those around them. The family home was broken into. Her father’s attorney had his office ransacked. Even the key whistleblower in the case – Dana Jill Simpson – had her house burned down and her car run off the road. . .

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Karl Rove Behind Jailing Governor of Alabama?

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There's not a lot that I can add to this, except to say I'm shocked--shocked--that Karl Rove might be a party to something so unseemly. Ahem.

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The permanent Republican majority:

Part one: How a coterie of Republican heavyweights sent a governor to jail

For most Americans, the very concept of political prisoners is remote and exotic, a practice that is associated with third-world dictatorships but is foreign to the American tradition. The idea that a prominent politician -- a former state governor -- could be tried on charges that many observers consider to be trumped-up, convicted in a trial that involved numerous questionable procedures, and then hauled off to prison in shackles immediately upon sentencing would be almost unbelievable.

But there is such a politician: Don Siegelman, Democratic governor of Alabama . . .

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