Locust Fork News and Journal editor Glynn Wilson will give a talk in Birmingham June 18 for the Greater Birmingham Democracy for America chapter and Progressive Democrats of America. The title of the talk will be: How the Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman was Confirmed: The Role of a Whistleblower and the Independent Web Press…
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As The Pendulum Swings
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson TUSCALOOSA, Ala., June 5 – Global warming gave us a break this spring in Alabamaland with plenty of rain and way cooler temps than last year. But the global pendulum is now swinging hard toward summer, and it’s hot as hades in T-Town. On the national political front, in…
The Grapes of Wrath: Part 2
“And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress … by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”…
Robert Kennedy Interviews Don Siegelman
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of GoLeft TV and Air America’s Ring of Fire talks with former Alabama governor Don Siegelman about the political motivations behind his prosecution.
Conyers Demands Testimony from Karl Rove
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat, and Committee Members Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Artur Davis (D-AL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) announced three critical actions today in the Committee’s investigation into allegations of selective or poltiically-motivated prosecution in the Justice Department. The Members today invited Karl Rove to testify before the committee, urged the…
Siegelman Says He Will Go To Washington
Attorney Doug Jones Advises Against It by Glynn Wilson It looks like Don Siegelman is going to Washington in May after all. In spite of all the advice to the contrary by House Judiciary Committee member Aurtur Davis, Birmingham’s representative in Washington, and his former lawyer Doug Jones, Alabama’s only former governor to be imprisoned…
Alabama Political Prosecution Updates
The CBS News magazine show “60 Minutes” will air an interview with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on Sunday night’s broadcast, according to a spokesman for the network. Siegelman was released from jail last week on an appeal bond after serving nine months in federal prison. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating Siegelman’s case as…
Media Alert: Fox 6 News Covers the Blog Influence Story
Picasso’s Don Quixote Fox 6 News in Birmingham had the story Sunday on the broadcast at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on how the independent Web Press influenced the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. A news team interviewed me and Roger Shuler of the Legal Schnauzer blog this afternoon in Picasso’s Blog Bunker,…
Court Frees Don Siegelman on Appeal
House Judiciary Panel Moves Forward on Political Justice Investigation by Glynn Wilson Glynn Wilson Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on trial Don Siegelman will be free at last Friday morning after spending nine months in a Louisiana prison, and he will be on his way to Washington in early May to testify before Congress about…
Siegelman to be Released on Appeal Bond
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman will be released on bond pending appeal, according to a ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta today, the Associated Press is reporting. In the ruling, the three-judge panel said Siegelman had raised “substantial questions of fact and law” in challenging his conviction. Also today, the…
FCC Launching Inquiry Into ’60 Minutes’ Blackout
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the FCC is launching an investigation into an Alabama CBS affiliate’s mysterious signal loss during a 60 Minutes segment investigating allegations former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman was railroaded by the Republicans in the Justice Department. According to an advance leak of the text:
Siegelman Trial Transcript ‘Substantially’ Ready
by Glynn Wilson The long-awaited transcript from the Bush Justice Department show trial of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy is “substantially ready,” according to Siegelman’s lawyer Vince Kilborn of Mobile. As soon as the official certification arrives from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which could be today,…
FCC Commissioner Seeks Probe of ’60 Minutes’ Black-Out
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is seeking an inquiry into the blacking out of a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” by a local television station in Alabama, according to Reuters. Copps compared the blackout to the 1960s, when civil rights footage was blacked out, and asked the chairman of the FCC…
The Political Trial of Don Siegelman
It Does Happen in America by Paul Craig Roberts Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration. The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear…
Siegelman Attorney Calls For Special Prosecutor
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s attorney Vince Kilborn released his three page letter today to United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey calling for a special prosecutor to look into legal irregularities in the case. You can read the letter in pdf format here. Here’s the AP story the other day, in case you missed it…
Alternate Reality Headline Goes Here
More Distortions Hit The Web in Siegelman’s Case Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson Sometimes in winter, even when there is rare snow on the ground in Alabama, it is better to sleep late. If for no other reason than to give the other Web publishers time to get their acts together before it’s time…
The Locust Fork News-Journal Calls For Special Prosecutor
The Locust Fork News-Journal will take the stand as the first news organization – and perhaps the only one in Alabama – to call for a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the Alabama wing of the Bush Justice Department’s corrupt and political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Today, the Alabama…
Siegelman Prosecution Questions Answered on ’60 Minutes’
The CBS magazine show “60 Minutes” showed that the Siegelman prosecutors suppressed exculpatory evidence and lied about it to a federal judge, according to a key lawyer who reviewed the evidence in advance. “This is devastating,” he said. “For the DOJ to fail to deny accusations of serious prosecutorial misconduct is a BIG DEAL. This…
Siegelman '60 Minutes' Watch Parties Across Alabama
There will be a Birthday Party for former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman Sunday night at The Rare Martini, 2839 7th Avenue South (in the Lakeview district at the corner of 7th Avenue and 29th Street), with doors opening at 5 p.m. The program begins at 6 p.m. Central time. Democrats across Alabama will gather to…
Republican Operative to Out Karl Rove on ’60 Minutes’
A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state’s Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician’s re-election, according to the CBS magazine show “60 Minutes.” Rove’s attempt to smear Don Siegelman was part of a Republican campaign to ruin…
