{"id":198849,"date":"2007-10-04T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/04\/the-don-siegelman-case-looks-fishier-still\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T21:41:00","slug":"the-don-siegelman-case-looks-fishier-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/04\/the-don-siegelman-case-looks-fishier-still\/","title":{"rendered":"The Don Siegelman Case Looks Fishier Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Time Magizine<\/span> goes into the irregularities.  Most notably, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,1668220,00.html\">Clayton Lamar (Lanny) Young Jr., a lobbiest and principal witness against Siegelman offered information about numerous Republicans too, but none of them were even investigated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/055055.php\">Josh Marshall&#8217;s rule of thumb<\/a>, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Not that there&#8217;s nothing fishy there, but as a rule, the more moving parts to an alleged conspiracy, the more skeptical I am<\/span>,&#8221; but more and more about this seems just plain whack.<\/p>\n<p>What is most concerning is that if this was a conspiracy, it means that hundreds of people, from the US Attorney to low level clerks and secretaries had to be aware of it, and no one said <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">anything<\/span>.  <\/p>\n<p>This implies that the politicization of the DoJ is basically complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magizine goes into the irregularities. Most notably, Clayton Lamar (Lanny) Young Jr., a lobbiest and principal witness against Siegelman offered information about numerous Republicans too, but none of them were even investigated. I have to agree with Josh Marshall&#8217;s rule of thumb, &#8220;Not that there&#8217;s nothing fishy there, but as a rule, the more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}