Digby: Sweet Home Alabama

The US Attorney scandal is still percolating even though Alberto Gonzales has wandered off into the sunset, and one of the most intriguing cases is one of the more obscure: the apparent railroading of the Democratic Governor of Alabama at the direction of Karl Rove:

Siegelman's case has become something of a major cause among those who charge that he was targeted by a highly partisan Department of Justice so he would be no threat to Republican Gov. Bob Riley in his bid for reelection to the post he wrested from Siegelman in 2002.