Well i emailed Don to see how he was doing, and the response i got was an article he copy pasted and sent back to me. It seems that maybe Rove will be forced to testify about all the dirty trick he played involving selective prosecution whilst he was hitman numero uno of the GOP White house.
More Below The Fold.
House committee asks Rove to testify about Alabama governor
By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 2 minutes ago
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday asked former White House adviser Karl Rove to testify about claims that he influenced a federal corruption case against former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama.
The committee asked Rove to appear under oath as soon as possible. The panel also wants the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate allegations that political motivations drove the Siegelman case and several other federal prosecutions during the Bush administration.
Rove has denied any involvement in the Siegelman prosecution. His attorney told MSNBC earlier this month that Rove would be willing to testify on the matter.
In a lengthy report on possible "selective prosecution," the committee also cited cases against Pennsylvania coroner Cyril Wecht and Wisconsin state procurement official Georgia Thompson as ripe for review. A judge recently declared a mistrial in the Wecht case, and a conviction against Thompson was overturned last year.
Criticizing new Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., said evidence presented thus far threatens to undermine public faith in the judicial system.
"It is clear at a minimum that current and former department leadership has been derelict in failing to review these matters and reassure the American people that federal law enforcement is impartial and fair," Conyers and other lawmakers wrote in a letter to Justice. "Indeed, the department appears to have simply circled its wagons."
Siegelman, who was elected governor in 1998 and served one term, has always claimed that his prosecution was driven by Republican partisanship. His case got fresh attention last year when a former Republican lawyer and campaign volunteer said she overheard conversations suggesting that Rove was pushing Justice Department officials in Washington to go after Siegelman.
Rove, a consultant who was heavily involved in Alabama politics before directing President Bush's White House campaigns, has denied the allegations.
Rove has fought congressional efforts to force his testimony in a related congressional investigation into whether Bush administration officials fired federal prosecutors who weren't loyal Republicans.
But responding to questions from MSNBC earlier this month, Rove attorney Robert Luskin said Rove would be willing to testify about Siegelman.
"Sure. Although it seems to me that the question is somewhat offensive. It assumes he has something to hide," the network reported Luskin saying.
Luskin could not be immediately reached Thursday afternoon.
A Judiciary spokesman said Conyers "reserves the right" to subpoena if Rove denies the request to appear voluntarily.
That was the article he sent me, and i hope that some of you may be able to elaborate on it somewhat. He emailed it to me @ 9:02 PM and it says it was posted 2 hours earlier, so i think 7pm(ish) CST? Anyway please i know with all the stuff on last night's debate being talked about, lets not forget one of the innocents that were jailed by this administration as political prisoners.
Also if you want to check out the background on this story (if you have been under a rock for the last few years) One Pissed Off Liberal has a great diary about it here here is an excerpt for those of you not up on it...
All roads lead to Rove. That was the message scrawled as an afterthought in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope I received in yesterday’s mail. It contained a letter from an old and dear friend of mine. His name is Don Siegelman. He is the former governor of Alabama and he is being held as a political prisoner of the Bush administration in a Federal prison in Louisiana.