Daily Topics - Thursday April 1 2010

angry imagesHour Two: Is there a "Conspiracy of Silence?" Thom talks with Governor Don Siegelman about more prosecutorial misconduct in Alabama www.donsiegelman.com

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SAWilliams 12 years 51 weeks ago
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Was this conversation with Gov. Siegelman on the air? I watch FSTV, was thinking it would be on yesterday, but can't seem to find it.

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DuaneV 12 years 50 weeks ago
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Boss Rahm decides who is a worthy Democrat

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from sources close to ousted White House chief counsel Greg Craig that it was not President Obama’s top legal adviser who balked at ordering the Justice Department to review the politically-motivated criminal cases brought by the Bush administration against three top Democrats in the South, but it was White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who made the decision to nix any White House backing for new trials for the southern Democratic officials involved -- former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, former Georgia state Senate leader Charles Walker, and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor.

Walker and Minor are currently incarcerated in federal prisons while Siegelman was freed from prison pending an appeal of his conviction in a trial headed by a corrupt Bush-appointed federal judge and former Republican operative, Mark Fuller.

Craig announced his resignation as chief counsel last November. Although press reports indicated that Craig was forced out by Emanuel over Craig’s determination to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and to release Bush administration Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques, the new information suggests that Craig and Emanuel also differed over Bush-era Justice Department prosecutions of Siegelman, Walker, and Minor, with Craig favoring a Justice Department review of the cases and possible new trials.

The involvement of Emanuel in blocking Justice Department review of the cases against Siegelman, Walker, and Minor is the first evidence that ties Obama’s chief of staff to the continuation of the political prosecutions of a number of Democrats that was brought about largely by President Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove.


http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5718.shtml

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