Simpson, DJ

boss:

KR invited to Ala to redo tex judic makeover; used u ala law school; w/ scotus, can do favors for big corps

bill canary pol op paratrooper, wife Leura Garrett C power couple 53 did tort reform 8:1; alice marin and leaura AG

Don Siegelman protege of anti-war, star of anti-wallce dems; won gov landslie, only dem; 1st gov toback gore;

Dana Jill Simpson built law practice on sorm gypsies; did ops res for KR; she tailed DS; he had been invest in bid rig but dropped; leura reoopened; clear conflict of Intr; Riley gop gov opp raed about indictments (theree were none?);

FBI invest DS donors; b2 and DC stumped for riley; AP called for DS, 99% precinct reporting; rove aide and rnc kelly mccullogh called riley and said no concede; vote # changed; law said wait period to cert, but AG Pryor did anyway, and said anyone who broke seal broke law (obscure), no point in going to gap state scotus; riley worried about rematch, but canary said his girls wd take him out 61 w/ KR, who called simpson a lunatic; said his name was not in 143pp depos, but actually in 50x

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rove's attorney says CBS should apologize for story</h3>

After a CBS affiliate blacked out 60 Minutes in Alabama, Dana Jill Simpson, the Republican attorney from Alabama and a whistleblower in the Don Siegelman case, told <a href="http://rawstory.com/" style=" text-decoration: none;">RAW STORY</a> Monday that the coordinated smear attack on her credibility by the state's GOP and the American Spectator publication are being pushed by Karl Rove � the former senior aide to President Bush � in retaliation for her revelations of his role in the investigation and conviction of Don Siegelman.

Siegelman was convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2006. A 60 Minutes piece Sunday, as well as several by <a href="http://rawstory.com/" style=" text-decoration: none;">RAW STORY</a> and Harper's Magazine, have raised questions about the circumstances of his conviction.

Over the weekend, a series of articles appeared in the Montgomery Independent and the American Spectator attacking both Simpson andHarper�s reporter Scott Horton.

Karl Rove, through his attorney, <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-rove_25nat.ART.State.Edition1.4659b47.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">declared </a>that Simpson�s allegations are false and the story foolish.

�60 Minutes owes Mr. Rove an apology for circulating this false and foolish story," Rove attorney's Robert Luskin said.

Simpson, however, points to the fact she testified to Congress under oath. Though called to testify, Rove did not show up.

�Mr. Rove was subpoenaed to testify in front a Congressional committee,� said Simpson this morning during a telephone interview. �He would not testify. He did not even appear in front of Congress, which is like not showing up for a court subpoena.�

�I testified under oath in front of Congress," she added. "He won�t even show up. Now you tell me who is lying?�

The American Spectator <a href="http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12789" style=" text-decoration: none;">article</a>, "The False and the Absurd," written by Quin Hillyer, alleges that Ms. Simpson�s story has changed.

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Nothing about her story even begins to stand up to scrutiny; indeed all of it spectacularly fails every basic test of common sense. A former Democratic Alabama Supreme Court justice (and sometime Siegelman adversary) who represented a co-defendant and close ally of Siegelman's in the trial that convicted Siegelman of federal bribery and obstruction charges said that the previous incarnations of the woman's oft-changing allegations "must have been created by a drunk fiction writer."

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�For one thing, Simpson consistently has made claims of being a longtime, and fairly high-level, Republican activist in Alabama. But my Republican sources in Alabama say they either don't even know her or barely remember her having done some rather low-level volunteer work. On Friday, longtime activist Toby Roth said of the 2002 campaign (around which most of her allegations revolve): "I was the campaign director [for now-Gov. Bob Riley, who challenged Siegelman]. I did not know her. Never met the lady." His only contact with her, he said, came four years later when she faxed him letters demanding that one of her clients be awarded a state contract to clean up a tire dump. The contract went to somebody else, and Roth says her bizarre allegations began surfacing only after her client lost the business.�

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<p style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier this month, this reporter interviewed Republican party members who have known Ms. Simpson for a very long time in Alabama. Documents regarding business contracts also indicate that Ms. Simpson worked closely with Governor Bob Riley�s son, Rob Riley Jr. In addition, the Spectator<a href="http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/10/heat_in_alabama.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">fails to mention</a> that Mr. Roth is a lobbyist for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and had close business dealings with Michael Scanlon, the lobbyist who has plead guilty to bribery and money laundering charges and Jack Abramoff, also a lobbyist and Mr. Scanlon�s mentor, who is now serving time also for money laundering and bribery charges. Both Mr. Scanlon and Mr. Abramoff have admitted to moving Choctaw casino funds into political campaigns.

Simpson came forward last year to testify in front of House Judiciary Committee about what she alleges was Karl Rove�s involvement in the Don Siegelman prosecution.

As reported by Raw Story in the first part of an ongoing investigation into the Don Siegelman case, the <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_1125.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">Permanent Republican Majority</a>, Simpson testified that she was on a conference call that discussed how Governor Siegelman would be �hanged.�

It would take a Riley campaign attorney -- long-time Alabama Republican Dana Jill Simpson -- to finally blow the whistle on the Republican governor. In a 2007 affidavit and sworn testimony, Simpson stated unequivocally that dirty tricks had sealed her boss�s victory in the 2002 election, and she named Karl Rove and the US Department of Justice as conspirators in the case.

Simpson had worked for the Riley campaign in 2002 as an opposition researcher, digging up dirt on then-Governor Siegelman. According to Simpson's May 2007 affidavit, Siegelman was pressured to concede the 2002 election because the Riley camp threatened to make public a set of photographs of one of Siegelman's supporters planting Riley campaign signs at a Ku Klux Klan rally. Simpson also stated that Canary had indicated that �Karl� -- by which she had no doubt he meant Karl Rove -- had taken a personal interest in the matter.

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In this additional testimony, Simpson described a conference call among Bill Canary, Governor Riley's son Rob and other Riley campaign aides, which she said took place on November 18, 2002 -- the same day Don Siegelman conceded the election. Simpson alleged that Canary had said that �Rove had spoken with the Department of Justice� about �pursuing� Siegelman and had also advised Riley's staff �not to worry about Don Siegelman� because ��his girls� would take care of� the governor.

The �girls� allegedly referenced by Bill Canary were his wife, Leura Canary -- who was appointed by George W. Bush in 2001 as the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama -- and Alice Martin, another 2001 Bush appointee as the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Simpson added that she was told by Rob Riley that Judge Mark Fuller was deliberately chosen when the Siegelman case was prosecuted in 2005, and that Fuller would �hang� Siegelman.�

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�I don�t feel safe,� Simpson added this morning.

Correction: Due to an editing error, Hillyer was incorrectly identified as a lobbyist in the first edition of this article. He says he is not affiliated with the National Center for Public Policy Research, which wrote about a conference that <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/2006/05/oil-prices-and-media-dont-believe-hype.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">he moderated</a> in 2006. The Center is not defunct.

nyt op ed

October 17, 2007,

Following the Karl Rove Connection

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

For those who want, finally, an answer to whether Karl Rove and others at the White House were behind the United States attorney scandal — and ordered federal prosecutors to bring and not bring cases to help Republicans win elections — next Tuesday could be an interesting day.

The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 23 on selective prosecution.

The committee is expected to take a hard look at the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, who may have been prosecuted primarily to keep him from running against the state’s incumbent Republican governor, Bob Riley.

Mr. Siegelman is serving more than seven years in prison on charges that seem to have been greatly overblown by federal prosecutors.

The committee has already conducted a lengthy interview with Dana Jill Simpson, the Republican lawyer from Alabama who says she was on a phone call in which a plot to take out Mr. Siegelman was openly discussed.

In her interview with the committee, Ms. Simpson — who had already linked the prosecution to Karl Rove — made another potentially explosive charge.

She said that Gov. Riley’s son, Rob Riley, told her that Mr. Rove had contacted the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department to push for Mr. Siegelman to be prosecuted. She also says that Rob Riley said that the case would be assigned to a federal judge who “hated” Mr. Siegelman, and who would “hang” him.

The Judiciary Committee has released this summary of Ms. Simpson’s interview.

The committee says it will announce the witness list for Tuesday’s hearing shortly.

The hearing has the potential to shed considerable light on the United States attorney scandal — and to provide new reason to believe the White House was directly involved in some disturbing, and possibly illegal, activity.