by Larisa Alexandrovna
Raw Story
August 20, 2009
Lawyer declines to say how he found out accuser didn’t talk to Justice Department
Karl Rove’s latest attempt to proclaim his innocence and demand apologies from those who have accused him of being behind the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman may backfire if it turns out that Rove was improperly receiving inside information after leaving his position as Deputy White House Chief of Staff.
By John Byrne
Raw Story
July 7, 2009
Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said
Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.
Rove’s deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half hours, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending around 6:30 p.m, ET — and the lawyers took several breaks, Conyers said.
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via Raw Story » Rove deposed — over eight hour period — in US Attorney firings.
Updated: 3.6.09 added a link to a story on Siegelman’s case
Rachel Maddow
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Court upholds most charges against former Alabama governor | CNN h/t: After Downing Street
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Democracy Now!
1.28.09
Obama to Face Test on Executive Privilege After Rove Subpoenaed Again Over Attorney Firings, Siegelman Prosecution
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, has subpoenaed former White House adviser Karl Rove to testify next week about the Bush administration’s firing of nine US attorneys and the prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. Rove previously refused to appear before the panel, and former President Bush upheld his legal position. Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, said he would consult with President Obama’s White House counsel to determine the Obama administration’s stance. We speak with attorney Scott Horton and former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. [includes rush transcript]
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Obama to face test on Executive Privilege
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Conyers Subpoenas Karl Rove: “It’s Time to Talk”
For Immediate Release
January 26, 2009
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey
Lillian German
(Washington, D.C.) — Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. issued a subpoena to Karl Rove requiring him to testify regarding his role in the Bush administration’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including the U.S. attorney firings and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The subpoena was issued pursuant to authority granted in H.R. 5 (111th Congress), and calls for Mr. Rove to appear at deposition on Monday, February 2, 2009. Mr. Rove has previously refused to appear in response to a Judiciary Committee subpoena, claiming that even former presidential advisers cannot be compelled to testify before Congress. That “absolute immunity” position was supported by then-President Bush, but it has been rejected by U.S. District Judge John Bates and President Obama has previously dismissed the claim as “completely misguided.”
“I have said many times that I will carry this investigation forward to its conclusion, whether in Congress or in court, and today’s action is an important step along the way,” said Mr. Conyers. Noting that the change in administration may impact the legal arguments available to Mr. Rove in this long-running dispute, Mr. Conyers added “Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it’s time for him to talk.”
A copy of the subpoena is linked here.
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by Larisa Alexandrovna
At Largely
December 20, 2008 Continue reading
Legal Schnauzer
Sept 25, 2008
An objective reader might take issue with the two posts we’ve written in recent days showing that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was wrongly convicted. You can check out the two posts here:
Here’s Proof Don Siegelman Was Wrongly Convicted
How Did Siegelman Bribery Charge Ever Get To Court?
A constructive critic might say: “Hey, you draw entirely from the Siegelman appeal, but you do not include information from the prosecution’s response.”
That’s a point well taken. And there are two reasons for the lack of response from the prosecution side. One, I don’t have a copy of their response. But more importantly, I don’t think I would trust it if I did have a copy.
I’ve seen the Bush Justice Department at work enough to know that even career prosecutors seem to be more interested in pushing a political agenda than in seeing to it that justice is done.
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Legal Schnauzer: An Inside Look at the Dirty Work of Federal Prosecutors in the Age of Bush
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Brad Friedman of The BRAD BLOG caught up with former AL Gov. Don Siegelman on stolen elections, Rove’s Contempt of Congress, “magnanimous” Democrats, and restoring integrity to the Dept. of Justice.
Full story and transcript available here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6335
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Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com.
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House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt
Mukasey Senate Hearing: Siegelman & Rove; Torture
Atty Gen Mukasey testifies before the House Judiciary Ctte
In a new installment of Bush League Justice today, guest Julian Epstein, former counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, stated that Republicans will admit, off-camera, that the case against former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was fixed.
The segment concentrated on Karl Rove finally giving written answers to questions, NOT under oath, about the Siegelman case. The questions, which were posed by Lamar Smith (R-TX), and answers can be read at Talking Points Memo.
While the general consensus is that the softball questions were a “pathetic attempt to save Karl Rove“, the effort appears to have failed. In the video above, Epstein states that Rove actually appears to “incriminate” himself by refusing to answer a specific question about whether he contacted non-state officials.
Marcy Wheeler agrees with Epstein over at emptywheel:
In a classic non-denial denial, Karl Rove makes it clear that he did talk to people about Siegelman’s prosecution–even while he denies that he spoke to anyone in DOJ about it.
And Larisa Alexandrovna thinks “This is getting to be rather fun” before proceeding to rip apart Rove’s answer with the facts. She also poses six real questions she’d like to see asked of Rove.
[Blog post:] http://www.hotpotatomash.com/2008/07/…
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Mukasey Senate Hearing: Siegelman & Rove; Torture
Congresswoman Wasserman on Karl Rove’s Refusal To Appear
http://cspanjunkie.org/
July 09, 2008 C-SPAN
Sen Whitehouse to AG Mukasey: Is Waterboarding Torture?
Sen Leahy to AG Mukasey: I Want to See Someone Go To Jail!
Sen Durbin Questions AG Mukasey on Torture & War Crimes Prosecution
Sen Cardin to Mukasey: What are You’re Plans for 2008 Election
Sen Feingold asks AG Mukasey: Politicization Of Justice Dept
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZUV5Lk0Uc
Sen Whitehouse asks AG Mukasey about Executive Orders
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bd2Qb90TBrE
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Congresswoman Wasserman on Karl Rove’s Refusal To Appear
http://cspanjunkie.org/
July 08, 2008
MSNBC Dan Abrams
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Dan Abrams reports on Karl Rove’s refusal to appear before Congress on Thursday. Michael Waldman and Julian Epstein weigh in.
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by Larisa Alexandrovna
rawstory.com
Thursday June 5, 2008
Mississippi US Attorney said to share tax returns of one of his targets with “unauthorized personnel”
The US Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the conduct of at least two specific US Attorneys in the “selective prosecution” of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, sitting Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr., and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor, according to attorneys close to the investigation.
In a May 5 letter sent to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), OPR Director H. Marshall Jarrett wrote that OPR “currently has pending investigations involving, among others, allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”
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Don Siegelman: Former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was defeated in the 2002 Alabama gubernatorial race by Republican Bob Riley. A consultant to Riley’s campaign, Bill Canary, is a long-time business associate of Karl Rove, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and senior aide to the president.
Canary’s wife, Leura Canary, was appointed to be the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama by President George W. Bush. Ms. Canary’s office investigated Siegelman on charges of bribery and corruption, twice allegedly timing indictments for maximum impact on upcoming elections. Ms. Canary has stated that she recused herself from the Siegelman case, but no evidence has been furnished by the Justice Department to prove that Ms. Canary did in fact recuse herself.
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Buzzflash
June 2, 2008
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
“Rove’s dream was to recreate the landscape of the judicial system, and to install judges that were either pliable, malleable, and/or very, very pro-corporation. Essentially that is what he did in Alabama in the early Nineties. That is what this is all about. If you control the governor in the states where the justices are not elected, you control who gets on the supreme court. And that’s essentially what this is all about for Rove ultimately. But to get those kinds of things done, you have to eliminate the governor you don’t want and install the governor you do want. There are a lot of corporate interests funding this. So it intersects in that sense. It’s buying the law and restructuring the state judiciary.” — Larisa Alexandrovna
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Alexandrovna was born in the Soviet Union and knows a thing or two about people getting framed by the state. So, among her many investigative projects, she became drawn to the plight of one Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, who became an apparent victim of the DOJ “Prosecutor-Gate.” His sin was protesting an election that appears to have been stolen from him, literally, in the dead of night.
If you think that “Prosecutor-Gate” ended with the resignation of Alberto Gonzales, you are wrong. Siegelman is only out of jail after a lengthy campaign to get him released on bond while his case is on appeal. Karl Rove still is at large and free to bloviate for dollars on the corporate media, while Siegelman has to battle to prove that he is an innocent victim of a DOJ that became a tool of partisan prosecutions.
continued at http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/111
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