Yeah, That's The Ticket

This Karl Rove spin didn't pass anyone's smell test:



You can "hear about" an actual prosecution from the paper and still be involved in the getting of that prosecution. I think that's pretty clear to everyone. Rove needs to stop going on these shows and he really shouldn't even be in the country, considering the mess he's in, between the Siegelman case and Scott McClellan's charges of deception in the CIA leak case. But it's really the Siegelman case where Rove has major vulnerabilities, as evidenced in that media appearance. Here's Josh Marshall.

There's never been any doubt in my mind that Siegelman was the victim of selective prosecution. Even the government's theory of the main case against him amounted to something that is standard in contemporary American politics and actually much less worse than lots of other stuff that no one thinks twice about. Cracking the nut of White House involvement has always been more difficult; but the evidence for it is substantial.

If Siegelman's and Alabama GOP lawyer Jill Simpson's stories are true, that would make this case the centerpiece example of the corruption of the DOJ revealed by the US Attorney firing scandal. In fact, it would make most of what we know now seem minor by comparison.

Good luck staying out of jail, Karl.