'Siegelman: Exposing Rove is 'worth every day in prison.' [View All]

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Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday April 30, 2008

| In an hour-long interview with Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman pounded hard on what he sees as the three main issues raised by his case: the involvement of Karl Rove in the politicization of the Department of Justice, the apparent theft of the 2002 election in which he was defeated by Bob Riley, and money-laundering by Jack Abramoff and his associates.

"Rove's fingerprints, from start to finish are on this case," Siegelman told Hartmann, continuing a line of argument he began in an interview last week with Robert Kennedy, Jr. "It's been a very expensive and costly ordeal for me and my family and, you know, we're not whining. If serving nine months in prison and spending every dollar I've got will lead to ... the exposure of Karl Rove's involvement, it will be worth every day in prison and every penny I've spent."

"When they dig up the evidence that was buried when Alberto Gonzales and Rove left the White House," explained Siegelman, "they're going to find that, I believe, that Karl Rove provided an umbrella of protection over those people who were operating to abuse the Department of Justice, because it just doesn't make sense why these people would violate the law with impunity unless they knew that their bosses or someone higher up had given the green light for them to do so."

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