This topic is getting out more and more. I hope the 60 Minutes segment lives up to its promise Sunday night. I hope heads roll, many of them.
Ex-Republican Operative Says Bush Adviser Karl Rove Pushed for Dirt on Alabama's GovernorA former Republican campaign worker claims that President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, asked her to find evidence that the Democratic governor of Alabama at the time was cheating on his wife, according to an upcoming broadcast of "60 Minutes."
Jill Simpson, who has long alleged that Rove may have influenced the corruption prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman, makes the claim against Rove in a broadcast scheduled to be aired Sunday, according to a statement from CBS.
Simpson testified to congressional investigators last year that she overheard conversations among Republicans in 2002 indicating that Rove was involved in the Justice Department's prosecution of Siegelman. She has never before said that Rove pressed her for evidence of marital infidelity in spite of testifying to congressional lawyers last year, submitting a sworn affidavit and speaking extensively with reporters.
Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, denied the allegation.
She was asked to take compromising pictures if the occasion occurred.
According to the CBS statement, Simpson says Rove approached her at a 2001 meeting, when Siegelman was still governor.
"Karl Rove asked you to take pictures of Siegelman?" reporter Scott Pelley asks.
"Yes," Simpson replies.
"In a compromising sexual position with one of his aides," Pelley says.
"Yes, if I could," she responds.
This whole situation has been horribly wrong. Karl Rove is now a Fox talking head, while Don Siegelman sits in jail.
"A Stain on Lady Justice"..Siegelman in jail, Rove writing for Newsweek.The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has again asked the judge who sentenced former Gov. Don Siegelman for a more detailed explanation of why he refused to let Siegelman remain free on bond while the former governor appeals his conviction. In an apparent rush to throw Siegelman in shackles and denying the former governor the ability to even say goodbye to his family following his sentencing, the judge, Mark E. Fuller, a district judge in the Middle District of Alabama, failed to rule on the motion for release, gaveling down Siegelman's lawyer when she pressed him for a ruling.
Siegelman has applied to the appeals court for his release pending appeal and the appellate judges in reviewing the record, found that Fuller had never even made a ruling on the lawyer's motion. They sent the matter back to him for a ruling, asking an explanation for his decision. The two judges who wrote Fuller for the explanation were Stanley Marcus, a Clinton appointee and Susan Black, an appointee of George H. W. Bush.
..."While Judge Fuller was presiding over the Siegelman/Scrushy trial, a business, Doss Aviation, Inc., in which he holds a 43.75% interest as he sits as a federal jurist, received $200 million in contracts from the Department of Defense.
One, a ten-year contract which totals $178.22 million contains an annual renewal clause, which makes his company totally dependent on the U. S. Government, Recently I disclosed this contract, but since then I have found that Doss Aviation added an additional $21 million in DOD contracts during the time he was sitting as the judge in the Siegelman/Scrushy case.
This is going to get so much uglier, I fear.