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60 Minutes: Rove behind prosecution of Dem. Alabama governor

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From Think Progress: Last night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, featuring allegations that Karl Rove personally told a Republican operative in the state to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife.

Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted in 2006 for conspiracy, bribery and fraud. But observers from all sides of the political spectrum are now questioning whether his prosecution “was pursued not because of a crime but because of politics.”

Watch the report.

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Rove went on Fox to deny telling the GOP operative to find information on the governor, then admitted, then said CBS did not contact him for comment, but they did and he responded with his lawyer... lying scumbag.

This whole thing has Rove's fingerprints all over it.

Scott Horton's research in this case...
http://www.harpers.org/subjects/DonSiegelman/SubjectOf/BlogEntry

Edit: WTF? CBS aired its long-awaited feature on the prosecution and imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman this evening at 7:00. In a stunning move of censorship, the transmission was blocked across the northern third of Alabama by CBS affiliate WHNT, which is owned by interests of the Bass Family.


written by Farhad2000  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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^I also read about that segment not being aired in northern Alabama. From Think Progress:

Though the report aired last night, it was not seen by everyone who may have wished to view it. In several Alabama locations, “the show was blocked - black screen - during the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes only.” Harper’s Scott Horton, who has investigated the Siegelman prosecution and was interviewed for the segment, reports:

I am now hearing from readers all across Northern Alabama–from Decatur to Huntsville and considerably on down–that a mysterious “service interruption” blocked the broadcast of only the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes this evening. The broadcaster is Channel 19 WHNT, which serves Northern Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

WHNT originally claimed last night that the blocked segment was due to “a techincal(sic) problem with CBS out of New York.” But that claim was contradicted by CBS in New York, who told Horton, that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19.”

WHNT now has a different explanation on its website:

NewsChannel 19 lost our program feed from CBS. Upon investigation, WHNT has learned that the CBS receiver that allows us to receive programming from CBS failed. WHNT engineers responded as quickly as possible to restore the feed at 6:12 p.m.

WHNT says it “will re-air the broadcast of that segment.”

UPDATE: A CBS spokesman brushed off concern about the blackout, telling the New York Times’s Lede blog that it just “an affiliate issue.”


written by kronosposeidon  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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I just love some good old *lies


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Adding video to channels (Lies) - requested by BicycleRepairMan.


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the land of the "free" and the home of the....


written by nickreal03  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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I bet we'll find out tomorrow that Lewinski was a mole planted by Rove.


written by RedSky  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Insanity...Follow up on the affiliate issue, this is fucked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBlFo5rhHQ


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*news


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