Larisa Alexandrovna: CBS Releases 60 Minutes Teaser On Siegelman Segment (VIDEO)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/cbs-releases-60.html

CBS releases 60 Min teaser....

And there is more, from CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml

CBS) A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state’s Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician’s re-election.

Rove’s attempt to smear Don Siegelman was part of a Republican campaign to ruin him that finally succeeded in imprisoning him, says the operative, Jill Simpson. Simpson speaks to Scott Pelley in her first television interview, to be broadcast on "60 MINUTES" Sunday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, on the CBS Television Network.

Simpson spoke to Pelley because, she says, Siegelman’s seven-year sentence for bribery bothers her. She recalls what Rove, then President Bush’s senior political adviser, asked her to do at a 2001 meeting in this exchange from Sunday’s report.

"Karl Rove asked you to take pictures of Siegelman?" asks Pelley.

"Yes," replies Simpson.

"In a compromising, sexual position with one of his aides," clarifies Pelley.

"Yes, if I could," says Simpson.

Simpson says she found no evidence of infidelity despite months of observation. She tells Pelley that Rove, who had been a top Republican strategist in Alabama, had made requests for information from her before in her capacity as an "opposition researcher" for Republicans running for office.

Rove would not speak to "60 MINUTES", but elsewhere has denied being involved in efforts to discredit Siegelman.

Siegelman was convicted of bribery in a case that has drawn criticism from Democrats and Republicans. In fact, 52 former states’ attorneys general from both political parties petitioned Congress to investigate Siegelman’s case, resulting in hearings held last fall.

"I haven’t seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done," Grant Woods, the former Republican attorney general of Arizona and one of those who petitioned Congress, tells Pelley. "I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square."

PART TWO: http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/60-minutes-teas.html

[Bozita]

1. Maybe Karl's now on the speaker's circuit to pick up bucks for future legal fees.

Karl's got a lot of them in his future.

See "60 Minutes" on Sunday.

[movonne]

2. What a hateful man karl rove is....

[Hissyspit]

3. No recommendations?

?

[Truth2Tell]

4. Here's one. :)

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. K & R

:dem:

[Oilwellian]

6. Fabulous

I'll be glued to 60 Minutes this Sunday. K&R

[bleever]

7. Kaaarl....

Kaaarl...

We know what you did.

We don't sleep.


Kaaaaarl...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. K & R.

[ClayZ]

9. K and R

[McCamy Taylor]

10. K&R

[Hissyspit]

11. morning kick

[Glimmer of Hope]

12. This should be good.

[trof]

13. Thank you SO much for this.

As many of you know I'm a native Alabamian and currently live there.
The two largest 'big city' papers are the Birmingham News and the Mobile Register. Both are extremely right wing and had pretty much convicted Siegelman in their pages before the trial had even started.

I've followed this as closely as I can, but there's been a real lack of state coverage. Scott Horton at Harpers deserves a lot of credit for bringing this to the attention of the people and congress.
Also Glynn Wilson of the online news and blog 'Locust Fork News and Journal'.

You can read up on the background here:
http://blog.locustfork.net/index.php/category/healthsouths-richard-scrushy-on-trial/

K&R

[EFerrari]

14. Thanks, Hissyspit.

[Hissyspit]

15. .

[bonito]

16. Kick

[Hissyspit]

17. .