Man accused of fraud blames Karl Rove
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."
Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Siegal urged U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Monday to reject arguments that Rove caused the criminal investigation that led to charges against Robert McAllister.
Siegal said lawyers for McAllister made the "patently absurd argument that the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District is a shill for Karl Rove and has arrested and indicted their client in some sort of vindictive retaliation." [...]
The bad thing about this story? Not that some moron isn't being laughed out of court, but the fact that there is a sizable portion of people who consider themselves smart progressive free-thinking sorts who are nodding their heads and thinking, "Yeah, I bet the US Attorney's office in the Southern District IS a shill for Karl Rove."
And they're SERIOUS.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 12, 2006 12:05 PM