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swilton

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4. This is what I can't understand - about the Obama Administration

Reply to Broward (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:37 PM

Dec 2015

1. Why doesn't the Obama Administration stand up for him?
2. The anecdotal information I heard was that Obama and Holder got the state of La. to increase the sentence for Siegelman - it's now been extended to 20 years. I think the original sentence was only 6 years.

Having said the above (stories/rumors), I don't watch this closely because I'm not from that area and there is enough other news that I follow (i.e., Sanders, Russia, GMO's, gas pipelines, climate change - etc.)....But another theory I've heard is that Siegelman was too liberal for the Democrats/not the Republicans.

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Son: Don Siegelman held in solitary in La. prison [View all] Photographer Dec 2015 OP

This whole thing was a Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #1

I don't understand this situation malaise Dec 2015 #2

Obama could have and should have ended this a long time ago. Broward Dec 2015 #3

This is what I can't understand - about the Obama Administration swilton Dec 2015 #4

How do you know they didn't look in this, and come to a very different conclusion? Maybe the DOJ... Tarheel_Dem Dec 2015 #5

Regardless of his guilt or innocence, or of his political affiliation femmedem Dec 2015 #6