NOV 17 20091. Obama lawyers to Democrat alleging political prosecution: Go back
to jail
2. Is An Alabama Newspaper Again Protecting a Corrupt Republican
Governor?
3. Obama administration opposes Siegelman's appeal
4. Curran completes book
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1. Obama lawyers to Democrat alleging
political prosecution: Go back to jail
by John Byrne for Raw Story
Go back to jail.
That's the message from Obama administration lawyers to former
Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, whose case became a cause célèbre
among Bush administration critics as ground zero of alleged political
prosecutions.
The seeming disconnect between Obama's team and numerous
Democrats -- including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John
Conyers, Jr., who's investigated Siegelman's case -- may be because
President George W. Bush's US Attorney in Alabama is still in office.
Democrats still haven't settled on a replacement, some eleven months
after Obama's inauguration.
In advice to the Supreme Court made public early this week, Obama's
Justice Department stood firmly behind the position of Bush US
Attorneys who won Siegelman's conviction on bribery charges in
2006. The two US Attorneys connected to the case were Bush
appointees -- whose numerous conflicts of interest were documented
in the Raw Story series, " The Permanent Republican Majority," which
received a nomination for best investigative reporting by the Online
News Association in 2008.
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2. Is An Alabama Newspaper Again
Protecting a Corrupt Republican Governor?
by Roger Shuler for Legal Schnauzer
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Signs of corruption connected to Alabama Governor Bob Riley are
everywhere these days. So how does The Birmingham News, one of
the state's rightward-leaning metro dailies, react? It conducts an
"investigation" that shows three state legislators created two nonprofit
organizations that have yet to undergo a required state audit.
And get this: The legislators just happen to be Democrats. What a
shocker!
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3. Obama administration opposes
Siegelman's appeal
by Chris Rizzo for Legal Newsline
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Disagreeing with 91 former state attorneys general, the Obama
administration says former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's appeal to
the U.S. Supreme Court should be rejected.
The Obama administration says federal prosecutors have proven
their bribery case against Siegelman, a Democrat. The Justice
Department filed papers Friday outlining their objections to the appeal.
"Under a standard that requires not just a quid pro quo, but one that
is verbally spelled out with all 'i's dotted and 't's crossed, all but the
most careless public officials will be able to avoid criminal liability for
exchanging official action for campaign contributions," Court papers
said.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, the bipartisan group of former attorneys
general said the case raises important free speech issues.
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Curran Completes Book
By Rob Holbert for Lagniappe
Former Press-Register reporter Eddie Curran has finished his book
on Don Siegelman and hopes to have it in bookstores before
Christmas. Curran said he thought the book would take him about
three months, but three years was more like it. The book is called,
“The Governor of Goat Hill: Don Siegelman, the Reporter who
Exposed his Crimes, and the Hoax that Suckered some of the Top
Names in Journalism,” and has a cover by the Press-Register’s
cartoonist, J.D. Crowe.
Curran said the book is not a biography but a journalism story, in
which he describes how he discovered many of the scandals that
marred Siegelman’s term as governor and led to his prosecution. The
book would have been completed long before if not for claims by
Siegelman and others that Karl Rove ordered his prosecution.
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