Probe of ex-Governors Prosecution Urged

Another White House/Rove scandal?:

Forty-four former state attorneys general have sent a petition to Congress asking legislators to investigate the Justice Department's prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges.

[...]Siegelman, a Democrat who also served as Alabama attorney general from 1987 to 1991, was convicted last year of bribery and obstruction of justice. He was taken in shackles from his sentencing hearing last month to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.

[...]Siegelman and his supporters have maintained for years that his prosecution was politically motivated.

[...]A Republican lawyer from Alabama added fuel to those claims when she signed an affidavit stating that, in 2002, she overheard conversations among GOP gubernatorial campaign officials suggesting that White House political strategist Karl Rove may have been involved in — or at least aware of — Justice Department efforts to prosecute Siegelman.