Siegelman speaks: Rove must testify

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http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080419/news/79035213&tc=yahoo

Published Saturday, April 19, 2008
Siegelman speaks: Rove must testify

By Tommy Stevenson
Associate Editor

BIRMINGHAM | Former Gov. Don Siegelman said Thursday that he wants former White House adviser Karl Rove to testify before Congress, whether 'he lies under oath, tells the truth or pleads the Fifth.'

Siegelman was freed on bond March 28 after serving nine months in federal prison for bribery and obstruction of justice. He said that while his primary concern is winning his appeal, there are bigger issues involved in his prosecution by the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Montgomery.

'This is not about Don Siegelman, and it's not about the Alabama case,' he said in his first interview with an Alabama newspaper since being released from a federal prison in Oakdale, La. 'This is about America, it is about finding out who hijacked the Department of Justice and used it as a political tool to win elections.'

Siegelman, who had just returned from two days in Washington conferring with U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said he is willing to testify before Congress about his case 'or anything else they want me to do.'

The interview in a makeshift office in downtown Birmingham came as Democrats on the committee issued a 40-page report Thursday saying they strongly suspect the former Alabama governor was the victim of a politically-motivated prosecution and asking for an independent probe of the Justice Department.
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[annabanana]

1. Every mention in a local paper is a step in the right direction.

K&R

[malaise]

2. K & R

Go Don!

[Richard Steele]

3. K&R for HOPE.

[lonestarnot]

4. K & R

[midnight]

5. Well this is a good start, but let's not stop here!

Democrats on the committee issued a 40-page report Thursday saying they strongly suspect the former Alabama governor was the victim of a politically-motivated prosecution and asking for an independent probe of the Justice Department.