WHAT A PRICK: Mukasey was going to fight Siegelman's release!!

[Junkdrawer]

Ex-Ala. Governor to Be Freed on Bond

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court approved the release of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on bond Thursday while he appeals his convictions in a corruption case.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the former governor had raised "substantial questions of fact and law" in challenging his conviction.

....

Before the 11th Circuit's decision, the House committee had asked the Justice Department to temporarily release Siegelman to allow him to testify in person. But Attorney General Michael Mukasey indicated that he would not support the request.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_hQ_YDe8B6WJYlYMASndVKjNPQD8VM0RU02

[spanone]

1. mukasey is the extention of bu$h*/cheney

[Virginia Dare]

2. But yet the Senate Democrats told us this was the best we could get..

makes you wonder.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Well, failing assassination, Siegelman will testify...

How do you like those apples, Mukasey?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. don't put it past them.

once the lid is pried off this bucket of shit, many people will be in serious trouble, starting with the US Attorney, several witnesses and even the District Court Judge.

[mod mom]

27. This is my fear-especially while he is still in prison.

:scared:

[jmowreader]

12. And the Senate Democrats were absolutely right!

There is no WAY Bush would have picked anyone even halfway acceptable, but at least Mukasey wasn't a totally-unqualified Bush crony (he had actually sat on the bench before he became AG) like...oh, say Harriet Miers.

[L. Coyote]

18. Ted Olson's anti-Clinton past = can't hide his connection to the notorious "Arkansas Project."

He was Bush's first choice! Why not Scaife, I had to ask!

Olson also hired USA Yang off the investigation of his client, Rep. Jerry Lewis, for a cool 1.5 million a year. No corruption here. MOVE ON.

[hootinholler]

23. He also picked up a couple of others from that office.

It's in my journal.

-Hoot

[madinmaryland]

28. RM Scaife?? HaHa. Wasn't he going through a nasty divorce last

year. Something about hookers, etc.

:rofl:

More of the values crowd!!

[spanone]

13. doesn't make you wonder toooo much....i hate to admit that

[u2spirit]

29. As usual

Schumer and Fienstein sell us out for expediency. If they don't know by now that NO ONE BUSH NOMINATES FOR ANYTHING WILL BE WORTH A DAMN, then they never will.

[bdamomma]

34. another bush loyalist

[TomInTib]

3. Hey! It's not political, though, don't you know....

no way, no how...

Because, you see....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3245310

[Botany]

5. Of course Attorney General Michael Mukasey wanted to fight this ...

.... that is his job as the Bush family consigliere. This goes right
to a dirty DoJ run by Ashcroft & Gonzales with Rove giving the
orders.

Don Siegleman had the gall to stand up against a dirty vote
in 2002 and had to be stopped.

[L. Coyote]

21. ExxonMobil’s Alabama Paydirt = Siegelman and Pissing Off Big Oil.

Quite importantly, given who runs the Corrupt Bastards Club (BIG OIL),
this started before the 2002 election was stolen, while Don was governor.
That is when all means to get rid of him went into effect, including
Riley's illegal campaign financing by Abramoff, Scalan, Reed, et.al.

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from: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3061537&mesg_id=3065452

ExxonMobil’s Alabama Paydirt
Scott Horton - Nov 4, 2007 - http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001584

Back in 1904, Ida Tarbell published what ultimately was to be seen as the seminal work of the muckrakers, The History of Standard Oil. It appeared first in nineteen installments in McClure’s Magazine, a rather less successful competitor of Harper’s, and shortly after the last installment appeared, Tarbell published the work in book form as well. In her work, Tarbell exposed the dark underside of corporate deal-making, the series of interlocking directorates and manipulations which had allowed John D. Rockefeller to build the oil leviathan and dominate the American market. Tarbell demonstrated that Rockefeller’s success came not so much from business acumen (though she never contested that he had plenty of that) as through a thorough understanding of how to game the system. John D. Rockefeller was a power unto himself. Politicians around the country were made and broken to suit him.

But Tarbell’s disclosures fueled the drive for antitrust legislation and a fairer and more competitive business environment—a drive which was, in its time, championed by progressive politicians of both parties, but particularly by Theodore Roosevelt. By 1911, Standard Oil was broken into thirty companies.

But over time, like the liquid-metal monster in the “Terminator” series, Standard Oil pulled itself back together again. It was aided in this process by a change in attitudes across the political spectrum, but most particularly it was aided by America’s campaign finance system in which politicians standing for election require increasingly larger sums of money to pursue their campaigns, and support from the corporate till is essential. The final act of rebirth occurred when the two principal surviving pieces of the company, Exxon and Mobil, merged at the close of 1999. The resulting behemoth, ExxonMobil, is the largest publicly traded integrated petroleum and natural gas company in the world. It is also the world’s largest petroleum and natural gas company by revenue, with revenues of $377.6 billion in fiscal year 2006.

The State of Alabama believes that it was victimized by ExxonMobil. According to the state’s complaint launched by the Administration of Governor Don Siegelman, ExxonMobil committed fraud and underpaid the state in a contract dispute over natural gas pumped from Mobile Bay. Alabama won that litigation, and a jury awarded the state a judgment against ExxonMobil of roughly $3.6 billion. Not chump change ............

[Supersedeas]

30. career Justice Dept. officials need to take a stand!!

[MasonJar]

6. Is it time to let Schumer know what we think of his pick for AG?

[DemocratInSoCal]

7. He Doesn't Care....

What are the New Yorkers going to do? Vote him out of office in favor of a repub?

It's like Feinstein here in CA. They are so entrenched, they know they have the Democratic vote, regardless of what they do.

Vote for Iraq. Vote for the Bankruptcy Bill. Vote for Roberts or Alito.

What are you going to do? Screw yourself by voting in a repub? Or do what CT did, and uselessly try to overcome their power.

[burythehatchet]

17. it happens. CT was a unique situatiom where the Pubs needed

Lieberman in the senate so they mobilized for him. Primary challenges are going to become much more relevant with the increasing power of the netroots.

[OregonBlue]

11. Agreed, here's his email. He is part of the problem.

http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm

[Supersedeas]

25. Schumer -- nice work, any other hacks need a recommendation

[billybob537]

9. He's just another HACK

I don't know they confirmed him he's a lying scum.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. What fabulous news!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I'm surprised Mukasey didn't fight. Do you think his bosses want Siegelman to testify?

[Junkdrawer]

15. Three events...

1.) Conyers asks DOJ to allow Siegelman to testify.

2.) Mukasey says "No way"

3.) (Unrelated to 1) 11th district court releases Siegelman pending appeal.


Result: Siegelman will testify IN SPITE of Mukasey's refusal.

[barbtries]

16. REPUBLICAN prick

i can't even believe they let him in. jeezus

[annabanana]

19. I sure hope Siegelman hires some personal security..

I fear for his safety.

[Elidor]

20. Thanks again, Chuck

If that was the best you could do, I'd hate to see your worst.

[rateyes]

22. That was my first thought, too. My second is that

Leahy should have held his ground on not allowing hearings until Rove, Miers, and the White House honored the subpoenas on the documents and testifying.

DiFi gets the bird from me on this one, too.

[EFerrari]

24. Mother f@cker. Thanks, Chuck. Thanks, Diane.

:grr:

[lonestarnot]

26. Fucking nazi bastard! Justice is not in his plans for the country!

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. Mukasey a prick? Shocking, just shocking I say!

The whole lot of them have barely an ounce of human feeling left in the tips of their pinky toes.

[DFW]

32. Well, sure he was. Read why Conyers said they needed Siegelman's personal testimony

Conyers said that his committee was not getting any cooperation from
the Justice Department. Expecting a Cheneybush "Justice" Department to
have any interest whatsoever in justice is sort of like Linus expecting
the Great Pumpkin to rise on Halloween, anyway. I'll be thrilled as can
be if Siegelman makes it alive to testify in front of Conyers. It makes
me wonder if Mukasey has a time-share lease on some of Halliburton's
property in the Middle East?

[frogcycle]

33. too bad there wasn't a week or so's delay between the events

it would have been good to get him further "on the record"

damn, I hope Siegelman has plenty to say and says it all

[indepat]

35. May those Dems who supported Mukasey's confirmation choke in their own spittle,

albeit no offense intended. :mad: :D