Meanwhile, Back in Alabama

I’ve always had a hard time getting my hands around the idea that the whole case against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was a political hatchet job. Not that there’s nothing fishy there, but as a rule, the more moving parts to an alleged conspiracy, the more skeptical I am. In the Siegelman case, there are those who argue that the White House, Justice Department, field prosecutors, and trial judge were all in cahoots with the Alabama GOP establishment. That’s a lot of moving parts. But that doesn’t make it untrue, and today’s report in Time that all of the Republicans initially fingered in the probe were never investigated–well, there’s an exception to every rule.