I’ve been on the road today and didn’t get to catch the Webcast of the hearing, and it doesn’t look like anyone else on the Web is reporting much about this tonight. The video link doesn’t work on the House Judiciary Committee Website and no transcript has been posted yet.

But from talking to one eye witness, it appears only Birmingham Representative Artur Davis asked about the Siegelman case, and Attorney General Mukasey just mumbled something incoherantly and had no answers. So it appears the Newhouse DC bureau hype turned out to be nothing. They didn’t even blog about it…

Ad 1: Thank Dog for C-SPAN. I just watched the late night replay. Davis actually laid out a pretty good set of predicate questions for nailing down the attorney general for the record on the inappropriateness of a presidential, political aide such as Karl Rove to consult with U.S. attorneys in the prosecution of a governor such as Don Siegelman. But it was clear that Mukasey has done nothing yet to investigate this, and most likely won’t, until the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals makes a ruling – if then.

Considering the three judge panel will have to wait until the end of March for a trial transcript, it looks like neither the House Judiciary Committee, the new attorney general or the appeals court are anywhere near providing relief for a governor who sits in jail due to what was clearly a political prosecution.

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