Justice Department Cover-Up in Siegelman Case

By GottaLaff

Don Siegelman

Butch Dill / AP

Don Siegelman is talking to Thom Hartmann right now, about the Department of Justice's cover-up/misconduct in his 2006 legal case/conviction. Liveblogging (please excuse the half-sentences):

Don: There are new revelations that DoJ was involved in a cover-up of the unethical and seemingly criminal activity going on in the Alabama's U.S. Attorney matters. A juror had romantic fantasies of the FBI sitting at the U.S. Attorney's desk at the trial... it wasn't disclosed, whether there were personal contacts (she did have contact with the U.S. Marshall)... the DoJ finds out and they cover it up!

Thom: A corrupted jury on top of everything else.

Don: I was selectively prosecuted in 2007. This year, 60 Minutes showed that the prosecutors extorted false testimony from a felon to get me convicted.

Now DoJ has been covering up. We asked for documents relating to Leura G. Canary's (a U.S. Attorney in Montgomery whose husband was Alabama's top Republican operative and who had for years worked closely with Rove) recusal, a recusal that didn't exist, and they were never turned over. Even after a subpoena.

There's a pattern of cover-up from DoJ re: anything to do with Rove and the U.S. Attorneys, and the prosecution of my case. Call your Congressmen and Senators, blow the lid off this stuff. Surely the Obama administration will look into this, support the Judiciary's call for Rove. Karl Rove won't tell the truth, or he'll take the 5th.

Thom: This will bust open the criminal activity of DoJ/Rove, which will lead to the White House. This is The Case. Congress.org has a list of phone numbers of your reps. Call them, ask them to hold Rove in contempt and continue to investigate the Siegelman case. DonSiegelman.com will get you more details.

Don: The article about this is on Time's website. There will be more revelations coming out on line. This is coming unraveled. There is another whistleblower waiting in the wings. Congress, if they dig, they'll discover links from Rove to the war in Iraq, the firing of the U.S. Attorneys, etc.

From the Time piece:

Conyers says the evidence raises "serious questions" about the U.S. Attorney in the Siegelman case, who, documents show, continued to involve herself in the politically charged prosecution long after she had publicly withdrawn to avoid an alleged conflict of interest relating to her husband, a top GOP operative and close associate of Bush adviser Karl Rove. Conyers' letter also cites evidence of numerous contacts between jurors and members of the Siegelman prosecution team that were never disclosed to the trial judge or defense counsel.