Siegelman: "I have looked [Conyers] in the eye...he is 100 percent committed to this investigation"

[sabra]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/rove_testifies_but_next_steps_in_probe_remain_murk.php

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A committee spokesman declined to comment to TPMmuckraker. And Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, did not immediately return a call.

Siegelman, however, was happy to talk. The Democratic former governor of Alabama, who in 2006 was convicted on corruption charges in what many have labeled a politicized prosecution, told TPMmuckraker he doesn't hold out much hope that Rove's testimony yesterday will have revealed much about the GOP political guru's alleged role in the case. "Karl Rove is one of those who can lie under oath and take a lie detector test and pass it," said Siegelman.

But the ex-guv added that, based on conversations with Conyers and his staff, he feels confident that the investigation will help get to the truth. "I have looked (Conyers) in the eye, and he has had discussions with me that have convinced me completely that he is 100 percent committed to this investigation," said Siegelman.

[mod mom]

1. I hope he's right but I worked w his staff after Ohio '04 and thought the same thing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I also heard the same thing from impeachment activists

I have heard enough not to trust a word he says.

[redqueen]

2. Was anyone else reminded of Bush re: Putin?

That whole looking into eyes thing?

I guess it's nice that some can feel so confident about someone based on mutual eye-gazing, but perhaps getting something in writing would be much better.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. K and R

[JDPriestly]

5. Depositions can be fun -- for the attornyes.

How valuable the deposition was depends on how well the attorneys for the House committee prepared their stuff. It's all a matter of intuition, knowing how to read another human being's speech patterns and what they reveal about their thoughts and above all knowing everything you could possibly know about the law that applies to your case and the facts of your case.

Some attorneys can read deponents very well. Others cannot. It's a gift.

[Mike K]

6. Conyers?

John Conyers is an artful bullshit artist who has never done a thing to deserve the chair he holds. He is best described as a backscratching hack politician whose only real concern is keeping his Detroit constituency happy, which he's managed to do for over thirty years. Now that he's the Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee he has more to sell off and trade across the aisle, benefiting only his congressional district at the expense of the rest of the country.

Add to that the fact that his speech characteristic is precisely similar to that of opiate addicts. He often sounds like he's about to nod out. And that is not malicious speculation. It's a simple fact.

If Dennis Kucinich held Conyers' chair, Rove would not have gotten away with contemptuously ignoring a Congressional subpoena. Nor would Gonzales and Yoo have gotten away with their contemptuously smarmy performances before the Committee.

Conyers is a deficit and an embarrassment.

[troubledamerican]

7. His wife just pled guilty to corruption charges. Gotta be a vulnerable time for Conyers right now