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Testimony Overlooked? Former Head of Siegelman's Transition Team clears Siegelman: "There was no bribe" by KatieSF http://www.opednews.com/articles/Testimony-Overlooked--For-by-KatieSF-090520-416.html Alabama Republican Elmer Harris, the former head of Siegelman's transition team and former CEO of Alabama Power, says in a recent interview with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman didn't accept a bribe. In fact, he states: "There was no bribe." Harris explained that he never testified because no one had ever asked him to--not the DOJ, not the US Attorneys, NO ONE. He says his testimony would have cleared Siegelman. Check out Harris' brief 60 second interview which I stumbled upon the 60 Minutes website (though it never aired on 60 Minutes, only on CBS Evening News, April 6th) : http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3996872n%3fsource=search_video Most recently (April 7), CBS most aired an update on the CBS Evening News an update, with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley interviewing Siegelman: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3998404n%3fsource=search_video If you missed the original 60 Minutes segment that was finally aired on February 24th (same night as the Academy Award Oscars), go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3870545n%3fsource=search_video The Court of Appeals turned down Siegelman's appeal May 15th and the DOJ prosecutors have announced they are planning on nearly tripling the sentence from 7 years to almost 21 years. http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/44788997.html Siegelman faces resentencing and returning to federal prison unless enough pressure can be put on Eric Holder's DOJ to throw out this case. So we need your help. Please call the White House and leave a comment: 202-456-1111 (or toll-free: 800-833-6354) OR call Eric Holder's office at 202-353-155, and/or email the DOJ: ask...@usdoj.gov Lastly corruption appears to abound in this case: namely Judge Fuller should recuse himself because he had an ax to grind against Siegelman and US Attorney Leura Canary, who is married to Alabama Republican Operative and Kingmaker Bill Canary, should be removed as a US Attorney since the demands to triple the sentencing are coming from her office: http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2009/05/judge-in-siegelman-case-faces-renewed.html "Meanwhile, a new investigation shows that Doss Aviation, with Judge Fuller as majority owner, has been awarded more than $300 million in federal contracts since Fuller began presiding over the Siegelman case in 2005." For more information see Thom Hartmann's interview with Siegelman: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/interview-with-former-ala_b_99338.html [Hartmann:] ... And, in fact, if I understand this correctly, you were being prosecuted by a woman whose husband was the campaign manager for the Republican who ran against you for governor and in the middle of the night in one county because of a voting machine malfunction after the election had apparently already been called in your favor, suddenly in the middle of the night, when there were nobody except Republicans standing around, they discovered a couple thousand more votes, and said: "Oh, yeah, no, no! Don Siegelman actually lost." Do I have that right? DS: You have it right. They electronically shifted votes from my column to my Republican opponent's column. TH: To Bob Riley's column. DS: I believe, yes, to Bob Riley's column. And oddly enough, it didn't effect a single down-ballot race. They took five thousand or six thousand votes of mine and shifted it over to Bob Riley, and when they counted everybody else's votes, the shift was at the top which, logically, would have made a difference at the bottom... I am a member of several Democratic clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area who did alot of volunteer work for the Nov 2004 Kerry campaign and became outraged when I learned that Kerry didn't "lose" but had his election stolen by the GOP machine in (more...) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
