{"id":5848,"date":"2008-03-27T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2008-03-27T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T03:45:09","slug":"alabama-former-democratic-governor-freed-from-prison-pending-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5848","title":{"rendered":"ALABAMA&#8217;S FORMER DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR FREED FROM PRISON PENDING APPEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5744\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KarlRove_AlanBreslauer_FreeDonSiegelman_022508_Prophetic.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Alabama&#8217;s former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, at the center of an alleged conspiracy to take him down &#8212; a conspiracy with an extraordinary body of bi-partisan evidence to support it, and Karl Rove&#8217;s direct involvement in it &#8212; has finally been released from jail pending appeal.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on a few other beats for the moment, so for the latest, we&#8217;ll refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Siegelman_sought_for_Hill_testimony_0327.html\">RAW STORY&#8217;s coverage<\/a>, where Larisa Alexandrovna has done a great deal of heavy lifting on this story over the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>Our own numerous stories on this woeful tale, including an occasional exclusive or two &#8212; and some still grossly-undercovered aspects of Siegelman&#8217;s story, such as the electronic election fraud he alleges was employed by state Republicans to unseat him &#8212; can be <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=361\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><b>UPDATE<\/b><\/em>: Dan Abrams&#8217; coverage of Siegelman&#8217;s pending release below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"360\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ouIxjyfKa4s&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ouIxjyfKa4s&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Hat-tip for the heads up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> Alan Breslauer, with balls the size of Alabama, as seen in the photo at top-left.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama&#8217;s former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, at the center of an alleged conspiracy to take him down &#8212; a conspiracy with an extraordinary body of bi-partisan evidence to support it, and Karl Rove&#8217;s direct involvement in it &#8212; has finally been released from jail pending appeal. We&#8217;re on a few other beats for the moment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[113,361,106,56],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-don-siegelman","category-election-fraud","category-karl-rove"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}