Siegelman: Bush lawyers still running Justice Department

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/siegelman-bush-lawyers-justice/

By Daniel Tencer
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 -- 2:28 pm

President Barack Obama's Justice Department has changed little from the Bush Justice Department because the same people are still running the show, says former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Siegelman is fighting a 2006 corruption conviction he and many observers say was politically motivated and may have even orchestrated from within the Bush White House. Last week, Raw Story reported that President Obama's solicitor general, Elena Kagan, is standing by Siegelman's Bush-era conviction, saying prosecutors had proven "corrupt intent."

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. GET THE SLIME OUT OF DOJ

[fascisthunter]

2. "President Barack Obama's Justice Department has changed little from the Bush Justice Department..."

why?

Also sad to see how our party threw your ass under the bus.

[QC]

3. Sometimes it seems like the whole administration is being run by Bush people. n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. THEY ARE AN INFECTION

[opihimoimoi]

5. Thats the main reason to avoid electing the GOP..they are the Party of PAIN

[FiveGoodMen]

6. I think it is.

Increasingly, I think it was planned to go exactly that way.

The Dems were really only given two candidates to choose from.

One was black the other a woman (liberals like shattering glass ceilings).

Hillary sounded like a republican on the campaign trail.

Obama not as much, but he's turned out to be one.

I think we were just completely played.

[QC]

8. Bait 'n switch. n/t

[jaksavage]

10. Both were vetted

and passed through the good old boys security system.
Otherwise they would have been 'Deaned'.
They knew Obama would play ball or he never would have been given a chance.
Obviously Hillary plays ball.

[katandmoon]

7. Obushma is afraid to replace Repugs in the DOJ: Dems might agitate to prosecute Bush/Cheney,

And Obushma is all about protecting his predecessor's criminal ass.

[JPZenger]

9. I'm usually willing to give the Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt, but ....

Corrupt Bush Administration US Attorneys were left in office way too long.

Even if Siegelman was guilty of what he was accused of, it wasn't a crime. That is done every day by everyone in Washington.

In any case, he was not given a fair trial.

The system was given a chance through the Court of Appeals and it has failed. It is time for a Presidential Pardon.

[jaksavage]

11. And defense

and interior and every f*ing thing else.