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Siegelman challenges Pelosi and Congress

By SEDER
In a live interview with Governor Don Siegelman at Netroots Nation exclusively streamed on Air America.com, the Governor spoke of both the personal implications of this DOJ witch hunt and what needs to happen to ensure the rule of law in this country is upheld.

Don Siegelman: Free at Last! In anticipation of Nancy Pelosi attending Netroots Nation and taking questions, I asked the Governor what he'd like to ask of the Speaker:

 

Seder – Not to put too fine a point on it, but tomorrow Nancy Pelosi will be here answering questions that have been submitted already. There may be some questions from the audience – if there was a question you'd like posed to Nancy Pelosi about this specific situation – a question or almost a question, what would it be?

Siegelman – Everybody here knows what it would be. If the House Judiciary does what we believe it will and should do, which is to support a motion for contempt citation. When that hits the Speaker's desk we want that pushed before Congress - the full House - we want a vote on it as quickly as possible. It's something that's important to our Democracy and it's important to this country. I think time is of the essence so we would want a quick response to a favorable motion to hold Karl Rove in contempt.

To help encourage the Speaker to hold Rove and the Bush administration accountable, Siegelman also announced the launching of a new website, ContemptforRove.com

Commenting on the implications of case, the Governor went on to say:

"if we want our rights to protect us, we've got to protect our rights."

An important sentiment, if the chief law enforcement agency of our government is using it's powers to punish those that stand in the way of their taking even more power are any of us really safe?

Watch the full interview here.

picture courtesy of Lindsay Beyrestein

Excellent point Sam, sincerely. But, I'm gonna bitch for a sec

I've got a crush on Anderson Cooper ... 60min SCHMUCK!!!!!!!!

CNN mentioned the Keating 5 tonight (FRIDAY CYA ya think), that was hard segued into a battle between the Cindy and Mitchell. WTF!!!!!!

They've got 24 hours of airtime to burn, but choose to burry the defining story about McBush's campaign FELONY offense that he was given special treatment over because, what? He lost a million dollar aircraft, broke his arm while ejecting and sat out the Vietnam "POLICE ACTION" in the Hanoi Hilton by choice? WHAT?!!!!!! Oh, he's a HERO, RIGHT? WTF!!! (You know Bush 41 killed his whole crew when he ditched his plane in the war. Then comfortably sat the rest of it out too. FUCKEN BRILLIANT!!!)

CNN IS IN THE GOP's POCKET (via CFR mgmt), and to keep from being called out for being biased, can tout being FAIR and BALANCED as long as they show the balanced part when NOBODY'S WATCHING, ONCE!!!

What a country.

PS:
This is irrlevant too, right?

In 1991, Rove was undergoing state Senate confirmation hearings for an appointment to the East Texas State University board of regents. Sen. Bob Glasgow was questioning Rove about his work for Gov. Bill Clements in the 1986 campaign against Gov. Mark White.

A now-forgotten incident of that campaign involved a listening device allegedly found in Rove’s office by a private security firm a few days before a televised debate. The case made headlines around the state. It was investigated by Rampton, who never found the alleged perpetrator.

Glasgow: “Ah, Mr. Rove, would you now tell us publicly who bugged your office that you blamed upon Mark White publicly and the press statewide?”

Rove: “Ah, first of all, I did not blame it on Mark White. If, ah, if you’ll recall I specifically said at the time that we disclosed the bugging that we did not know who did it, but we knew who might benefit from it. And no, I do not know. ...”

Glasgow: “And are you now satisfied that Mark White and the Democratic Party did not bug your office as you—as you released, ah, to the newspapers?”

Rove: “Senator, I never said Mark White bugged my office, I’m not certain he has an electronic background. I never said the Democratic Party bugged it either. ... As to who bugged it, Senator, I do not know—and the FBI does not know. ...”

Glasgow: “How long have you known an FBI agent by the name of Greg (Rampton)?”

Rove: “Ah, Senator, it depends—would you define ‘know’ for me?”

Glasgow: “What is your relationship with him?”

Rove: “Ah, I know, I would not recognize Greg (Rampton) if he walked in the door. We have talked on the phone a var-—a number of times. Ah, and he has visited in my office once or twice, but we do not have a social or personal relationship whatsoever. ...”

Glasgow: “During the Rick Perry campaign (against Jim Hightower), did you have any conversations with FBI agent Rampton about the course and conduct of that campaign?”

Rove: “Yes, I did, two or three times. ...”

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0418-26.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/24/3373/print/

By SingSingJuly 19, 2008 - 1:20am