Congressman Threatens Rove with Jail

clipped from rawstory.com According to Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), should Karl Rove continue refusing to give testimony, the House of Representatives will "presumably" hold him in contempt, landing Rove in jail. When House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a Monday subpoena against former Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove regarding his alleged involved in the political prosecution of an Alabama governor, and the firings of nine US Attorneys, he likely expected a fight. Specifically, it enjoins Rove "to testify regarding his role in the Bush Administration’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including the US Attorney firings and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman." Siegelman, who was convicted of corruption charges in 2006, was released on bail last April pending appeal after media reports -- including those of Raw Story -- revealed myriad irregularities surrounding his prosecution.

For a better background on the Seigelman case than I can give in the limited space here, check this -- it's pretty thorough. Long story short, it was a gross miscarriage of justice and about as clearly illegal as is possible. Seigelman was a political prisoner of the United States, whose only real crime was being a Democratic Governor that the GOP "could not beat fair and square," according to a former Republican Attorney General of Arizona.

In Rove's defense stands Bush's assertion that executive privilege lasts forever. It's looking more and more like that BS claim is going to be tested in court.