don siegelman was sworn in as governor of alabama in january nine hundred ninety nine in for the start of his term his republican opponents set out to taking down by any means necessary siegelman a democrat in a very red state drew the ire of republicans in alabama so they turned to dirty tricks master call rove the architect behind george w. bush's entire presidency rove in the republican operatives came up with a plan to have siegelman investigated for alleged bribery after he pointed a campaign donor named richard scrushy to a position of us. hospital board and it was a position that screw she had already held under several republican governors from the very beginning it was obvious that these charges would never stick they couldn't stick but rove and his associates managed to find just the right prosecutor just the right judge and even a jury that eventually convicted siegelman and soon to prison there have been countless investigative pieces since eagleman prosecution that show call rove's involvement how the charges were trumped up how the prosecutor was working with the state re

don siegelman was sworn in as governor of alabama in january nine hundred ninety nine in for. start of his term his republican opponents set out to take him down by any means necessary siegelman a democrat in a very red state drew the ire of republicans in alabama so they turned to dirty tricks master call rove the architect behind george w. bush's entire presidency rove or the republican operatives came up with a plan to have siegelman investigated for alleged bribery after he pointed a campaign donor named richard scrushy to a position of a state hospital board and it was a position that screw she had already held under several republican governors from the very beginning it was obvious that these charges would never stick they couldn't stick but rove and his associates managed to find just the right prosecutor just the right judge and even a jury that eventually convicted siegelman and soon to prison there have been countless investigative pieces since eagleman prosecution that show call rove's involvement how the charges were trumped up how the prosecutor was working with t

something that would get a typical prosecutor or lawyer in very serious trouble maybe even prosecuted don siegelman was targeted because republicans knew that they could use our corrupt justice system to serve their own ends and even today more and more information is coming out that points to siegelman is innocence while the people who actually committed crimes by targeting governor siegelman never once not one time saw the inside of a prison cell where they actually belong. joining me now to tell the story in his own. wrong words as former alabama governor don siegelman governor there's a new film out abacus versus the architect that tells the story of the plot against you what the new evidence does it brings forward in this film it's a whole new light that people did not even know about talk about that film a little bit well there there are the documentary hits the prosecution of course rove and others pretty hard but the the new evidence that is presented in the documentary. is it is explosive one jack aber mom made makes a cameo appearance and readily admits to his part in the conspiracy to st

don siegelman was sworn in as. governor of alabama in january nine hundred ninety nine in for the start of his term his republican opponents set out to take him down by any means necessary siegelman a democrat in a very red state drew the ire of republicans in alabama so they turned to dirty tricks.