Adam Zagorin has a new article up on Time magazine, and it's a scorcher. Seems a witness has come forward to say that Rove may have been behind the Siegelman prosecution in Alabama.
Don Siegelman was the former Democratic governor of Alabama convicted in 2006 of bribery and conspiracy and faces thirty years in prison. But today Zagorin reports a twist in this tale.
Now Karl Rove, the President's top political strategist, has been implicated in the controversy. A longtime Republican lawyer in Alabama swears she heard a top GOP operative in the state say that Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys.
Zagorin identifies this lawyer as Dana Jill Simpson. On May 21 she filed an affadavit and Time has a copy.
