Karl Rove 60 Minutes Expose Tonight

Karl Rove 60 Minutes Expose Tonight

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"A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state's Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician's re-election," CBS's Scott Pelley reports for 60 Minutes. "Rove's attempt to smear Don Siegelman was part of a Republican campaign to ruin him that finally succeeded in imprisoning him, says the operative, Jill Simpson."

Simpson speaks to Scott Pelley in her first television interview, to be broadcast on "60 MINUTES" Sunday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, on the CBS Television Network.

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Rove's plan was allegedly part of a smear campaign which appears to have been very succesful for Republicans as it ended in the imprisonment of former Democrat Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Siegelman was the only person in Alabama history to be elected to all four of the state’s highest offices including secretary of state, attorney general, lieutenant governor and governor. Given that he was a Democrat in this heavily Republican state he was a prime target.

This case has raised red flags among both political parties.





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Time October 2007

Simpson said in June that she heard a close associate of Rove say that the White House political adviser "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys. Siegelman was later indicted on 32 counts of corruption, convicted on seven of them, and is currently serving an 88-month sentence in Federal prison.If Simpson's version of events is accurate, it would show direct political involvement by the White House in federal prosecutions — a charge leveled by Administration critics in connection with the U.S. attorney scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Bold added

You guys really need to get yourself a multiparty system instead :S
Atleast that would make it a little more difficult to maintain the clicks that you have now.

Although the scandinavian systems are not 100% protected from corruption they are still more people friendly to a certain degree.
And although we have two "sides" ganging up, with so many different parties it's hard to focus on squashing your opponent and forces you to deal with your own point of views instead of your opponents.

Anyways, isn't that why we elect leaders? Because of what they believe and not because they believe in something else than someone else?

[edit on 24/2/08 by flice]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll see if I can get it.

I was around during Nixon and Watergate. The dirty tricks back then make them look like they were playing in a sand box (although, yes, there were definitely illegalities and abuse of power against rivals). Karl Rove is a Pat Buchanan on steroids.

Nixon was directly involved with the goings on, but maybe this time Bush has been deliberately kept insulated from the dirty tricks (don't ask, don't tell). Sad either way.

Well, that sand box is now a cesspool. Thank you, Karl

Will they reveal that Karl Rove's grandfather was the Nazi on the German side who worked with George W. Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush -- who was an American Nazi?

Not if they want to keep on broadcasting.... I know.

The real revelations will come when they finally show the institutionalised child abuse in the USA is related to these Nazis and their work in the intelligence gathering agencies. (See Candy Jones et. al.)

You U.S. Americans would do well to repeal the Secrecy Act of 1947. A genuine Republic cannot exist being as perverted by secrets as your nation has become.

[edit on 24/2/08 by Pellevoisin]

and karl rove is now out of washington...a year before the next election...and bush can't be elected again...and he is back in texas.... gee...i wonder what he is doing there. wait, wait... let me guess what is in store for the next democratic representative running for president. uuhhmm.... rape, corruption, murder, illegitimate child, terriost, kid lover, former member of the communist party, drug dealer or runner, military hater, gay, mental problems, secret zionist, secret scientologist, secret anything that stirs the loins of right-wing republicans....what a fun year it's going to be!!!!

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[edit on 24-2-2008 by jimmyx]