MSNBC’s Abrams Calls For Gov. Don Siegelman’s Release From Prison

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Siegelman’s Daughter States That Her Father Knows Karl Rove Is Behind His Prosecution
Says Judge ‘Trying To Keep Her Dad Hushed As Long As He Possibly Can’
Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Dan Abrams once again tackles the Don Siegelman case in his stellar “Bush League Justice” series on MSNBC. Tonight’s guests included Scott Horton of Harper’s, former Alabama GOP operative Dana Jill Simpson, and Governor Siegelman’s daughter, Dana Siegelman.

Abrams and Horton opened the segment discussing the remarkable 60 Minutes blackout of the Siegelman story in Alabama on Sunday. According to the local CBS station the blackout occurred because of a faulty receiver. An incredulous Abrams then proceeded to make a mockery out of the laughable excuse:

It’s sooo hard to believe – the notion that a receiver, in Alabama, just during the Siegelman story, just during 60 Minutes – I mean, they got it resolved, right? Right at the end, just as the story is finishing up, right?
After playing more of his interview with Karl Rove accuser Simpson from yesterday’s show, Abrams made his first of many calls for Governor Siegelman’s release from prison:

But there are serious questions that should lead the Justice Department and the judge to, at the very least, release Siegelman while he appeals.
Amazingly, Siegelman is unable to appeal his case because the government has failed to produce a transcript of the trial which was completed over 18 months ago.

Later Dana Siegelman tries to answer some of the many unanswerable questions regarding her father’s case before flat out telling Abrams that the judge is “trying to keep her dad hushed as long as he possibly can” and that her father “knows Karl Rove is behind this.”
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