"The ring of truth in the article," Siegelman wrote me last week after publication and follow-up, "is that Republicans wanted EADs, and I was close to Boeing because I had helped them expand their National Missile Defense Center in Huntsville and had them locate a manufacturing facility for the Delta IV and Delta II Rockets in Decatur, AL."
Siegelman was Alabama's governor from 1999 to 2003, but lost reelection in 2002 when 6,000 of his votes mysteriously shifted from voting machines in Baldwin County after polls closed. "Keep in mind," Siegelman wrote last week, "the head of Alabama's Business Council after my election was stolen was, and is, Bill Canary."
Siegelman argues that Rove worked with Alabama prosecutors who included U.S. Attorney Leura Canary. Her husband is Rove's longtime friend and political ally Canary, whosework included managing the 2002 campaign of Siegelman's Republican rival Bob Riley, Alabama's current governor.
Power Plays Against Obama's Nominations
Both Leura and Bill Canary have issued statements denying wrongdoing. To defer to Alabama's two powerful Republican senators, the Obama administration has so far continued her in office after she served during the two Bush administrations as the president's top prosecutor in Alabama's middle district, covering the state capital region.
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