CBS's Sixty Minutes tonight covered the story of the prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. The news magazine show features comments by Republican insiders about what they allege to be politically motivated prosecutions against Democratic officials.
One Republican state attorney general summed up the Siegelman prosecution this way:
"They targeted [Gov.] Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square. This was a Republican state and he was the one Democrat they could never get rid of."
The prosecution was led by a U.S. Attorney in Alabama married to the campaign manager of Siegelman's Republican gubernatorial opponent.
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