FEB 3 20101. Siegelman Prosecutor Might Land Key Guantanamo Position
2. Congress Must Impeach Siegelman’s Judge, Mark Fuller
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1. Siegelman Prosecutor Might Land Key
Guantanamo Position
By Roger Shuler for Legal Schnauzer
....Feaga was in Washington earlier this week to interview for the
position with Jeh Johnson, U.S. Department of Defense general
counsel.
If appointed to the Guantanamo post, Feaga would serve as defense
counsel for terrorism suspects.
Those who have followed the Siegelman case surely will find irony in
that. Feaga has been accused of pressuring a witness, Nick Bailey, to
give false evidence in the Siegelman case. That fact was
corroborated by U.S. Justice Department whistleblower Tamarah
Grimes, who used to work for Feaga. The charges against Feaga
apparently have never been fully investigated within the DOJ.
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2. Congress Must Impeach Siegelman’s
Judge, Mark Fuller
By John Caylor for the Wayne Masden Report
The Obama Justice Department lost any credibility in November by
opposing Supreme Court review of former Alabama Gov. Don
Siegelman's 2006 conviction on the bogus corruption charges that
authorities filed against him during the Bush era.
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Under President Obama, Bush holdovers are still helping Siegelman's corrupt
trial judge Mark Fuller cover up a massive conspiracy by rogue federal
prosecutors and Karl Rove, whose diabolical schemes to corrupt Alabama
politics pre-dated his Bush White House jobs.
You're about to read my eye-witness account of a real-life John Grisham novel
about my hometown of Enterprise, Alabama. I share that hometown with Mark
Fuller, whose father and mine comprised part of the notorious Dixie Mafia whose
drug-running, arms-smuggling and gambling operations play a huge role in the
state's politics and economy.
Right now, bingo gambling in nearby Dothan and related scandals are the
biggest issue in the state's governor race.
Of even greater significance is that Mark Fuller presides as chief federal judge in
the middle district of Alabama, continuing to abuse his vast powers. Most
dramatically, he refuses to recuse himself from continuing to rule over
Siegelman, who he helped railroad into prison and solitary confinement - and
whom Fuller hates with a passion over a longtime grudge.
This constitutes a challenge not just for those of us in Alabama living in this
corrupt system, but for everyone in the United States who wonders why the
Obama administration continues to resist this travesty of justice in the most
infamous U.S. prosecution of the decade, which has escalated to the status of an
international human rights disgrace.
For these reasons, the House Judiciary Committee must restore public
confidence promptly by launching an impeachment investigation of his trial judge
regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on Siegelman's plea for justice.
One focus should be on Judge Fuller's long-running help for what Justice
Department Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson described in 2005 to Rove's office as
the "loyal Bushies." They included federal prosecutors nationwide who were
framing Siegelman and other Democrats to remove them from office.
Another focus must be on Fuller's already documented fraud seeking $300,000
from Alabama's taxpayers in a scheme involving Doss Aviation, Inc., the former
drug-smuggling company that Fuller controls as its largest stockholder.
I am among the many who will step forward to testify on these matters. But first,
the Judiciary Committee must take the lead to holding public hearings calling
these criminals to testify public alongside whistleblowers. Do-nothings in the
Justice Department will never start this on their own because too many secrets
will come out.
An honest and competent Judiciary Committee probe of these matters would
blow the lid off massive corruption in Alabama and Washington. That corruption
is causing major abuses in defense contracting, election rigging, high-level
bribery, and even worse crimes that are destroying our country's basic
freedoms.
As noted, one of these scandals currently dominating Alabama's 2010
gubernatorial race involves the gambling casinos and dog track operators who
have shaped our state's politics for many years.
They are now in open warfare against each other to control the future of
government policy in Alabama, most immediately in a huge bingo-related
development project near Dothan.
The leading Republican candidate for governor, Bob Johnson, is raising hell
about millions of dollars in Jack Abramoff-related Indian casino graft that had
been channeled to the incumbent Republican Gov. Bob Riley. For years, Riley
cited his abhorrence for gambling to oppose Siegelman's lottery proposals to
fund education and more currently the bingo development. So it's remarkable to
see so much new documentation of Riley's hypocrisy, especially coming from a
fellow Republican like Johnson.
Meanwhile, our presumed Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Artur Davis, a
congressman and African-American pal of Obama dating from their Harvard
days, is conniving with Rove's business allies.
Davis hopes to use his connections with the Business Council of Alabama (BCA)
to slip into office amidst the Republican confusion without taking principled
stands on the mind-boggling scandals in Alabama that have caused so much
harm locally and nationally. Under President Bill Canary, BCA is well-connected
to his friend Rove and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue,
who share common roots in the American Trucking Association, Republican
politics and Alabama skullduggery going back many years.
In my opinion, the worst scandal arising from Alabama -- and certainly the most
dramatic Ñü is the 2008 murder of federal witness Mike Connell via sabotage on
his airplane. I've been helping Ohio's Common Cause investigate the crash as
part of its probe of election software fraud in Ohio that helped provide the 2004
margin for George W. Bush's victory.
As his family feared in early 2008 when he turned against his co-conspirators,
someone not currently known damaged Connell's plane and caused it to crash
just before his scheduled testimony as a cooperating federal witness revealing
his work assisting Rove's election-rigging operation.
Years ago, Rove had set up election software study centers in Alabama and
Tennessee to develop expertise in the kind of voting machine fraud that cost
Siegelman his 2002 re-election.
As well known by now, Riley narrowly beat Siegelman after officials in rural
Baldwin County announced on Election Night that they had reversed 3,000 votes
for Siegelman and put them into the Riley column after polls closed with
Siegelman initially declared the statewide victor.
Let me disclose that I'm currently in hiding from Florida's state authorities in fear
for my own life, especially after police fatally beat my mother outside her home in
what I believe to have been retribution for my investigative work.
Later, a Florida county court sentenced me to six months in jail on a disturbing
the peace charge for my 2006 attempt to obtain county courthouse records under
Florida's Sunshine law about my mother's death and the unrelated death of a 14-
year-old boy after he was severely beaten in a state juvenile home.
During my first night in jail on the disorderly conduct charge, Florida police
withheld the life-saving heart medicines that I require, especially now that I'm
trying to recover also from very serious cancers.
So just call me a "fugitive for justice" now that I'm free on bond and living in what
we'll call an undisclosed location. For those reasons, my appearance is now
somewhat different from the attached photo taken that I've used for years.
But I'm willing to risk everything to come to Washington to help an honest
oversight inquiry of these scandals by the House Judiciary Committee if anyone
there has the nerve to do what's right.
That's because corruption I've seen connected with Judge Fuller and his
confederates is literally destroying our country.
For years, I've been writing a book about it called Inside the Dixie Mafia. But I
cannot delay my findings any longer at this key juncture. Sadly, the Obama
administration is showing that it wants to continue the Justice Department's
Siegelman cover-up for whatever devious purposes the Obama group itself
might have.
Thus, the cover-up has by now morphed from a Bush scandal to one at Obama
Justice Department (DOJ). Among recent developments have been the Justice
Department's: Firing Justice Department whistleblower Tamarah Grimes, a
paralegal on the Siegelman case who objected to its paramilitary-style, win-at all-
costs implementation wasting taxpayer dollars Keeping the lid on the
Siegelman case by seeking twenty additional years in prison for Siegelman
during his resentencing by Fuller, who originally had the defendant put in solitary
confinement and barred from contact with family and the news media.
Retaining the corrupt U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, whose middle district office
prosecuted Siegelman. Her husband, William Canary, is Rove's close friend
andhead of the Business Council of Alabama and former Republican National
Committee chief of staff.
Advocating George Beck as Leura Canary's successor as U.S. attorney. Beck
disgracefully permitted Canary's office to blackmail his client Nick Bailey via more
than 70 paramilitary-style interrogations at an Alabama Air Force base. Fearful of
government exposure of his sex life, pressure on his partners and a threatened
10-year prison sentence, Bailey gave misleading and, in essence, since-
recanted testimony that convicted Siegelman on corruption charges. .
As the final straw, Obama's new Solicitor General Elena Kagan is arguing that
the Supreme Court should not review the Siegelman prosecution, even though
it's by now an international human rights disgrace.
Some of Obama's actions are doubtless to curry favor with Alabama's powerful
Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, who have no interest in seeing their
friend Fuller and his secrets exposed.
It's likely also that Obama's own friend Kagan thinks her status as a hot-shot
legal superstar will one day propel her to a U.S. Supreme Court nomination.
Kagan, who formerly taught at the same tight-knit University of Chicago Law
School faculty with Obama, went on to become dean at her alma mater Harvard
Law School. Might Senate approval for a Supreme Court nomination be easier if
she curries favor with Sessions, the Judiciary Committee's Republican ranking
member?
If she thinks so, she's yet another Harvard-educated fool, at best. In the tradition
of Bob Hope's character in the movie Son of Paleface, she's as clueless as the
Senators who approved Fuller's nomination without a single question about the
military contractor Doss Aviation that he'd been running for the previous thirteen
years.
Sessions operates in a world of power politics and almost unimaginable
hypocrisy. For him and his crowd, anyone who extends a cowardly gesture of
friendship, such as Kagan's stance on Siegelman, is regarded simply as weak.
More important, Kagan, Holder and Obama for all their fancy rhetoric and law
degrees don't seem to understand the passion for justice that some of us in
Alabama feel about the Siegelman case Ñü and how our numbers are now
augmented nationwide by Internet communications.
The corporate-owned newspapers and broadcasters look for guidance from
commentators like Rove on such complex topics. Rove is one of their own as a
columnist for the Washington Post-owned Newsweek and the Wall Street
Journal. Among his public opinion tools is broadcast of his opinions at Fox
News TV, and a new book with mass media interviews this spring.
But the Internet's capabilities are a game-changer-as Obama's campaign knew,
but as his administration now seems to forget.
For these reasons, the public must pressure the House to ramp up an
investigation of Fuller and his fellow criminals, such Rove, even though a number
of the House's own members have much to hide from transgressions that rogue
authorities have captured via warrantless electronic surveillance, easily enabled
by modern technology.
Fortunately, whistleblowers and investigative reporters have documented so
much evidence against Fuller that it would take only one or two honest
congressional members to solve the problem.
With the public desperate for a hero, here's a summary of what any courageous
congressional member would find if he or she were willing to buck the cover-up
system in the way that Florida freshman Representative Alan Grayson recently
did to decry the financial frauds afflicting our country:
Fuller's formal title is chief U.S. judge for Alabama's middle district, which is
based in the capital city of Montgomery. But as the record shows, his real title
should be "kangaroo court judge" as only that Wild West term for justice conveys
the Fuller style: Shoot-from-the-hip with his "I-am-the law" arrogance.
How do I know? I'm an Alabama-raised investigative reporter reared in
Enterprise, which is located near the Gulf and became Alabama's center for the
Dixie Mafia of organized crime. Mobsters moved to my hometown after Phenix
City to the east forced them out following a particularly notorious assassination in
1954.
My jobs have included work as a congressional aide, private investigator and
undercover federal drug investigator. In the course of such work or the social
conversations growing out of it, I've met former CIA Director and future President
George H.W. Bush, retired Cuban Mafia leader Santo Trafficante and Iran-Contra
leader Oliver North.
One of my first jobs was as a photographer for Cliff Wentworth, an attorney and
friend of my father's who would go on to become a notorious cocaine smuggler
working directly with Colombia's most notorious kingpins, Pablo Escobar and
Carlos Lehder, to distribute a billion dollars of cocaine throughout the
Southeast.
Wentworth was later convicted and given a slap on the wrist: Six years,
suspended after six months served in a country-club type minimum security
facility. That illustrates the kind of federal judges we see in my neck of the woods
who coddle their friends in such matters without any real scrutiny from Congress,
the Justice Department or the media.
In March 2007, I met several of Siegelman's prosecutors on their way to a victory
party at my then-neighbor Rove's home at Rosemary Beach just south of
Alabama on the Florida Panhandle. Curiously, Rove testified before House
Judiciary Committee staff last summer that he had scant interest in the
Siegelman case and no one had the gumption to challenge him with specifics on
that or a hundred other points where an honest and reasonably competent first-
year law student could have nailed Rove.
Enterprise is also the hometown of Fuller, who was born in 1958, a few years
after me. My father was the Enterprise police chief who welcomed so many
outlaw refugees from Phenix City to mingle with our leading citizens and gung-ho
military men populating the fast-growing bases in our region. Mark's father was
a state district attorney for the Twelfth Circuit Court based in Enterprise.
Mark Fuller is dirty. I personally know he is dirty. Moreover, I know the whole
damn bunch associated with him.
The gist is that both our fathers used their respectable fronts to hide involvement
in massive drug smuggling from Columbia by working with outlaws from the
Dixie Mafia who had direct ties to major city Mafiosi as well as to the very top
smugglers in Colombia.
The racket, which was nicknamed The Enterprise, enjoyed semi-protected status
especially during the Iran-Contra era, which was when Lt. Col. Oliver North and
his colleagues used to visit with my father, with me and with others in town.
Control of Doss Aviation, one of the early companies involved in the smuggling,
was passed along from my father and his group to Mark's father and his cronies,
and then ultimately in 1989 to Mark, who that year became Doss Aviation
chairman and chief executive officer.
The company won dozens of CIA and Air Force contracts with the help of the
region's longtime Republican representative, Terry Everett, a senior member of
the House Armed Services Committee. I used to work for Everett on the local
newspapers and broadcasting properties that he owned.
Fast forward: As a George W. Bush-nominated federal judge appointed in 2002,
Fuller retains a controlling interest in Doss Aviation, ensuring that as a judge he
will have a fabulous amount of non-judicial income.
The proceeds include some $300 million in Bush administration awards to Doss
Aviation since 2006, the year the Siegelman trial began. All of this has been
amply documented in on-the-record materials by courageous whistleblowing
legal figures Paul Weeks, Jill Simpson and Tamarah Grimes, and several very
thorough investigative reporters whose exposes have fallen on deaf ears,
exposing the degree of corruption at the Justice Department and the indifference,
if not complicity, of elected representatives to these big-dollar scandals.
Fuller is also part-owner of the CIA front company Oceaneering International, Inc.
As the former Navy Intelligence analyst Wayne Madsen has reported,
Oceaneering's roots are in the Bush family business Zapata Offshore Oil Co. that
George H.W. Bush led before he entered politics and became CIA director from
1976 to 1977.
The Justice Department likes to argue in court that Fuller's massive income from
his side businesses such as Doss Aviation doesn't violate the law of judicial
recusal because not a single reasonable American might think this kind of
money from government contracting would affect his judgment in a political
prosecution like Siegelman's.
Count me as part of the chorus of helpless ordinary observers who say that
Fuller should have recused himself, or been forced to recuse himself. The
leading Supreme Court case demands he do so under his own motion, and the
country's citizens should be outraged that his fellow federal judges don't
understand that their own integrity is at risk if they tolerate this kind of corruption.
In this instance, Fuller has held a shareholder stake of up to 44 percent of the
privately held Doss Aviation firm at the same time that he's been railroading his
longtime enemy Siegelman into prison, and indeed solitary confinement, on
charges trumped up by the White House's operatives in Alabama and
Washington.
His stockholder share of Doss Aviation apparently has been reduced to 30
percent, according to Huffington Post articles here "Alabama Decisions Illustrate
Abuse of Judicial Power" and here "Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of
Judge's 'Grudge', Evidence Shows" .
But 30 percent still leaves Fuller as controlling shareholder of a company with
just six other retainers, according to judicial reporting forms as of last year.
Specifics On How Siegelman Was Framed
As background, the main federal charges against Siegelman stem from his
reappointment of businessman Richard Scrushy to a state board in 1999 after
Scrushy contributed to a state non-profit advocating for more spending for
education via creation of a state lottery. Ninety-one former state attorney generals
have so far argued to the Supreme Court that Siegelman's actions were not a
crime.
But the Obama administration has not only urged the Supreme Court to reject a
hearing, but asked Fuller to sentence Siegelman to an additional twenty years in
prison. This continuing travesty of justice is fully documented by on-the-record
investigative reporting that sadly is largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate-
owned media.
I'll describe in my next report reasons why the Justice Department wants to keep
a lid on the case, and why the corporate owned media is happy to comply.
First part in a series.
Investigative reporter John Burt Caylor is editor and publisher of Insider Magazine
(www.insider-magazine.com). Previously, he worked as a television and
newspaper reporter, a contract investigator for federal agencies, a licensed
private investigator and a network communications consultant. He is a native of
Enterprise, Alabama, where his father was police chief and a member of the
Dixie Mafia.
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