Alabama governor Don Siegelman: a Democrat who was too successful in a Republican stateIs Karl Rove worried about the Don Siegelman case? Will Bush pardon him today?
From the CBS 60 minutes story on the case:
“Rob said that they had gotten wind that Don was going to run again,” she says.
“And Rob Riley said what about that?” Pelley asks.
“They just couldn't have that happen,” Simpson says.
Asked how they were going to prevent that from happening, she says, “Well, they had to re-indict him, is what Rob said.”
Democratic Underground notes: A study by Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, of the Bush justice department: "the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops."
UPDATE: The President wasn't in a pardoning mood in his last days. Story from USA Today:
• The Daily News (of New York) -- Cheney pushed Bush to pardon Libby: "In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby -- and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge. Sources close to Cheney told the Daily News the former vice president repeatedly pressed Bush to pardon Libby, arguing his ex-chief of staff and longtime alter ego deserved a full exoneration -- even though Bush had already kept Libby out of jail by commuting his 30-month prison sentence. ... Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the federal probe of who leaked covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the press."
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