Reply #3: The best that I can tell, Holder could have intervened to allow Minor to go to his wife's funeral.

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And didn't. If anyone knows otherwise, please post. Minor is like Siegelman, not guilty of anything.

Via Mark Crispin Miller's News Underground:

From: Jill Simpson

I wanted your readers to know that the DOJ chain of command directly places AG Holder over
the head of the Bureau of Prisons. You can check this out at the DOJ website.

Folks don't buy that Mr Holder couldn't have picked up the telephone and let Mr Minor go to the funeral. He could have, and that is why he remained silent. In fact, the buck stops with him.

I discovered the DOJ chain of command chart when they were jerking Don Siegelman around, flying him from here to there. AG Holder just needs to come out and admit he ain't going to do anything to help Paul Minor, Gov. Siegelman, Mr Teal or Mr. Scrushy. He should admit that the only folks he has helped has been Republican phone-jammer James Tobin and Republican Senator Ted Stevens.

Amazingly, Holder found the time to respond to their pleas for help but not to answer calls from Democrats who put his boss in office. One has to wonder what kind of file Karl Rove has on Holder, since it was recently reported by the press that Karl keeps files even on his GOP allies.

DANA JILL SIMPSON