Career Prosecutors Against Karl Rove's Political Prosecution of Siegelman

Scott Horton has a piece on the careeer prosecutors who were opposed to the Karl Rove operation in which U.S. Attorneys in Alabama were used as political hit men to gin up prosecutions against former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman.

For the last several months, I have received accounts that a number of the most experienced and senior career prosecutors involved on the case strongly opposed continuing the prosecution against Siegelman. The case was pushed through, as one Justice Department person has suggested to me, “with blunt political force” over their opposition.

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