Karl Rove led effort to prosecute former Governor of Alabama
According to a report in The Hill, Karl Rove played a key role in the case against former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D). Based on testimony provided to the House Judiciary Committee, it appears Rove may have instigated that prosecution:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges.
In a closed-door interview with committee staff, Simpson recalled how Rob Riley, current Gov. Bob Riley’s (R) son, told her about Rove’s role in a plan to prosecute Siegelman if he did not back down from contesting the 2001 gubernatorial election results that handed the office to Riley.
According to the transcript, Simpson described a 2005 conversation with Rob Riley, who told her that Rove had contacted the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice to press for further prosecution of Siegelman. She said Rob Riley also recounted how the case would be assigned to a federal judge who “hated” Siegelman and would “hang Don Siegelman.”
More like Karl Rove used the USG to settle a personal vendetta
Headline accuracy important here. Rove was improperly using his office.
Jack Abramoff on the Left...
"It is not our job to seek peaceful coexistence with the Left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently." - says it all, doesn't it?
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Rove soon will be headed to jail, and as we all know while he's busy kicking-up his feet, contemplating how he wants to spend the rest of his life and wondering if a school of higher education might employ him, President Bush told Rove he has to write a book. I can envision The Boss expects the book to be a confessional why Rove broke a 30 year friendship with the president to violate the Hatch Act and in so doing, had the administration award contracts to companies loyal to President Vladmir Putin. A former Republican Alabama Governor, too, is to be indicted for his corrupt activities while heading the Border and Transportation Directorate at DHS and his favoring of Saflink (joined its board) and its Voluntary Credentialing Industry Coalition partners, which in itself is a Russian Mafia front.
Part of Rove's reason for going to jail is because of his tight and too trusting relationship with REPUBLICAN Asa Hutchinson!