Daughter of jailed governor sees White House hand in her father's fall-By: Larisa Alexandrovna

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

Published: Tuesday November 27, 2007

Part two of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects and the execution of backroom Republican politics

In Part II of the RSI special investigation, The Permanent Republican Majority, the daughter of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman sits down for an exclusive interview about the family’s ordeal and her father’s case.

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



Pictured at center in the above photograph with her mother Lori and father Don, 22 year old Dana Siegelman is passionate and idealistic. There’s a charming innocence in the way she sees the world, despite her family’s troubles.

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.

She maintained throughout all of these communications that Karl Rove – the former White House Chief of Staff – helped engineer her father’s fate with the help of two judges and two US Attorneys.

Indeed, Republican attorney and whistleblower Simpson testified that Bush-appointed Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who presided over Siegelman's trial, was selected in advance by Alabama Republican operatives working in concert with the US Justice Department. That department was then headed by Alberto Gonzales, who has recently resigned in disgrace.

The other federal judge with an involvement in the case is Judge William Pryor, who as Alabama attorney governor began the investigation of Governor Siegelman that eventually led to his indictment.

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If we had the 6 O'Clock News all day long, there wouldn't be enough headline space.

...but it doesn't cater to the interests of the media (making the Bush administration look good, ignoring evidence to the contrary), so it has to be ignored.

fraud was commited and that Siegelman was being targeted by Rove to change the storyline - yet again.

Where were the Dems in charge? McAuliffe had to know what was going on - enough of us were hounding the DNC daily over the discrepancies. Instead, many popular Dems somehow lost their seats in 2002, Siegelman gets framed, the machine fraud continued and became worse in the 2004 election, a Dem governor goes to jail and NO DEM PARTY steps up?

a WAY to get this man outta jail. I know there's a WILL!

republicans" truely are the corrupt bastards club.

can't pencil it in :crazy:

Never had one. Won't ever. No Time either. I get my in depth coverage from the Net.

and also Kpete for posting:)

Great work.

The Reps can bury anyone they want at a moment's notice.

They've all got the goods on each other. And when they don't
have any goods, they have they willing accomplices in high places
who will frame you.

This is why our party stands around as the Republicans destroy
our Democracy.

95 percent of them are in on the fix or too threatened to act.

Does any one really wonder why Democrats haven't successfully
passed legislation that stops vote stealing and ended the
current corruption embedded in our voting system? They'll
either benefit from the corrupt system or they're too frightened
to suggest changing it.

Democracy is dead in the minds of most politicians.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_permanent_Republican_majority_Daughter_of_1127.html

Thanks, answers some of my questions as well.

This is the huge story behind the HUGE story! FIXING elections and the efforts to cover that up.

at that level of office. There should have been massive Department of Justice investigations all over the place, including the role of the RNC and the White House, interfering in a state electoral process. No better than Third World politics at its worst. Siegelman's trial was a complete travesty of justice; civil rights lawyers should have been all over the trial proceedings. One of the most disgraceful episodes in American political history ever. Just about every wild conspiracy theory a crank could come up with against the Republicans on this case is probably true.

Early in bush's reign, I kept thinking that justice was going to catch up to people. When it didn't, I began to wonder. Then the revelations about all the compromised justice departments, the inspector generals and the stonewalled investigations kept trickling in, and I realized that "every wild conspiracy theory a crank could come up with against the Republicans on this case is probably true." They have reduced us to "Third World politics."