Did Don Siegelman Get Jim Hightower Treatment?

I continue to often think about Don Siegelman. I stumbled back across this older American Spectator piece from Lou Dubose titled Did Karl Rove Help Send an Innocent Man to Jail? and thought I ought to share. The whole effort is simply damning yet I'll share just the following:

Don Siegelman's federal prosecutors were so closely associated with Karl Rove that there was enough conflict of interest to justify a change of venue to the Hague. Yet when Siegelman's defense attorneys raised the "conflict" issue, they were gaveled down. The judge refused to hear arguments that the prosecution was political. The only deference to partisan and ethical conflict was Leura Canary's recusal—and the assignment of the case to a junior attorney she supervised.

With odds like that, only an unbiased federal judge would have kept Siegelman out of a federal penitentiary. Mark Fuller was not that judge. Even if Fuller never promised to "hang" Don Siegelman, as Simpson says she was told by Governor Riley's son Rob, the judge represented something less than blind justice.

The article points out how Jim Hightower's political future was doomed once Karl Rove and a rogue FBI agent raised timely allegations of corruption against then Texas Agriculture Commissioner Hightower. I certainly knew a little about Jim Hightower yet I will try to follow him more closely now.

I also noted Scott Horton's latest Harper's work on Don. Examining the strange relationship that Nothern District U.S. Attorney Alice Martin has with The Birmingham News makes it even more worthy of reading. John Gunn