Under the long shadow of a years-ago recusal of the US Attorney from the Middle District of Alabama, and just days away from the commencement of a Congressional hearing, Louis Franklin has yet again stepped up to defend and explain the integrity of his District. Almost two years since the indictment was unsealed, over a year after the District won a conviction and months after the defendants have been sent to prison, the prosecutors continue to defend their actions with denials and now childish name-calling instead of open, honest and forthright answers to legitimate questions. The latest proclamation takes aim at a broad range of the questioning voices, but Franklin’s statement is most likely meant to coincide with the publication of national print coverage in Time magazine. The tone and tenor of the various District proclamations has evolved over time regardless of who’s name appears at the top or bottom of the documents, and they appear to be the work of multiple authors. Just as reliable sources have said that the case was pushed from Washington over the early objections of the Middle District prosecutors, there now appears to be an unseen hand pulling the strings and speaking through Mr. Franklin.
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It would seem that even the most ardent hope-he-rots-in-prison Siegelman haters would want the clouds and fog that hover over the government’s investigation to be lifted. If everything was put on the table and it turned out that it was a righteous prosecution that was the end result of a forthright investigation, they could claim a victory for the American system of justice, and walk away. If nothing else, putting everything on the table would allow the people who are involved in the investigation and prosecution to quit making contradictory unnervingly absurd statements. Besides the bunker mentality that surrounds and protects the mechanism of the Siegelman prosecution, it is these statements that tend to underscore the official nervousness that is becoming increasingly apparent at the Middle District of Alabama, it is these statements that make it uncomfortable for even true believers of the means, methods and motives of the prosecutors, and it is these statements that fuel the very reasons why questions continue to be asked. Although his exact whereabouts are currently unknown and although he has a growing stake in events unfolding in Alabama, it is highly unlikely that Karl Rove’s fingerprints will be found at the scene or that his DNA will be found in the blood spattered aftermath; but recent revelations and allegations reported by the Birmingham News conjures up distant memories of a blueprint, and a familiar pattern that has shown up in Alabama, in Texas, in California and in Washington DC. Leak or whisper something that finds its way into the press, and then follow it up with an investigation. |
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