No. No one can protect you when you are selected for prosecution. I am so disappointed in career executives in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, one of whom -- Terry Derden -- was described to me as a man of honor, who would never engage in conduct such as this. He is the Deputy Director and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Attorney's office nationwide. Mr. Derden completely ignored the sworn statement of the U.S. Attorney, Leura Canary, regarding her conduct at the Embassy Suites, on the evening my referral for criminal prosecution was made. The House Judiciary Committee used my 2007 account of government misconduct as a key basis for its 2008 letter to then-U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding answers from DoJ regarding the Siegelman case. That was the right thing to do. But Congress didn't protect me by doing it. Instead, it just made me more vulnerable to DoJ reprisal.
Mukasey never responded to the Judiciary Committee's letter, which had remarkably detailed, serious allegations. The letter noted that your evidence provided independent confirmation of the CBS "60 Minutes report in 2008 that prosecutors improperly coached former Siegelman aide Nick Bailey. Bailey was the prosecution's central witness that Scrushy's donations to the Alabama Education Foundation were bribes to Siegelman. That's the core of the prosecution's case?
That's correct.
Bailey and his employer have now gone even further in describing prosecution misconduct in a sworn statement in June attached to Siegelman and Scrushy requests for a new trial based on evidence not available during their 2006 trial. On July 21, I described that in articles for OpEd News and Huffington Post entitled, "Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal? Earlier this week, Alabama reporter Roger Shuler described a key part of your statements as undercutting the claim that U.S. Attorney Leura Canary recused herself from the case, as she claimed. What was your reaction to seeing that additional evidence of the kinds of things you'd been saying all along?
I hope that the Attorney General will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the serious prosecutorial misconduct that I reported to oversight authorities in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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