{"id":5440,"date":"2007-12-14T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2008-02-25T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T08:28:39","slug":"video-day-4-of-bush-league-justice-series-on-msnbc-investigates-controversial-siegelman-prosecution-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5440","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Day 4 Of &#8216;Bush League Justice&#8217; Series On MSNBC Investigates Controversial Siegelman Prosecution In Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XuvA7Dj-T04\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"right\"><\/embed>The final installment of &#8220;Bush League Justice&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19599749\/\">MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams<\/a> deals with the controversial prosecution of former Democratic Alabama Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Siegelman\">Don Siegelman<\/a>.  Evidence suggests that Siegelman, who remains in prison, was wrongly prosecuted by prominent Alabama Republicans with the help of Karl Rove.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, two prominent Republicans, Senator Jeff Sessions and Judge William Pryor Jr., were also named by the chief witness against Siegelman but were never even investigated. Further, a Republican lawyer working for Siegelman&#8217;s political opponent has sworn under oath that he overheard key Republicans on Governor Riley&#8217;s team discussing the case. He quotes one operative as saying:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;Not to worry, that he had already gotten it worked out with Karl, and Karl had spoken to the Department of Justice.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>After a brief introduction, Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) and <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i> Scott Horton join Abrams for an in depth discussion about the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer The final installment of &#8220;Bush League Justice&#8221; on MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams deals with the controversial prosecution of former Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Evidence suggests that Siegelman, who remains in prison, was wrongly prosecuted by prominent Alabama Republicans with the help of Karl Rove. For starters, two prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,327,223,361,56],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-artur-davis","category-dept-of-justice","category-don-siegelman","category-karl-rove","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}