Purge Blogger Believes Firing Political

By Jay Allbritton
Jul 11th 2008 5:44PM

Filed Under:eBush Administration, House, Scandal

Did blogging about the U.S. Attorneys purge get a long time University of Alabama employee fired? Lindsay Beyerstein of Raw Story reports that Roger Shuler, who has followed the saga on his blog for over a year, believes he was fired from his job for blogging about Alabama U.S. Attorneys Alice Martin and Leura Canary.

For the last 12 years Shuler worked as an editor for the University of Alabama Birmingham publications office before he was fired in May over a billing dispute that was unrelated to blogging. Harper's Magazine writer Scott Horton, who covers the vast scandal, told Raw Story, "Shuler's problem arose not because he blogged nor because he did so from his workplace, because it's clear he didn't. His problem came from the fact that he wrote critical, well received insights targeting a number of very powerful figures in Alabama."

In February, 60 minutes aired (not in parts of Alabama) a feature on Karl Rove's role in former Governor Don Siegelman's prosecution. Suspicions that the politicization of the Justice Department, questionable prosecutions and the purge of several U.S. Attorneys were connected led to a subpoena from a House subcommittee that Rove failed to honor yesterday. Siegelman took to the blogs today demanding Rove be held in contempt for failing to appear and he may get his wish if a determined John Conyers has anything to say about it.

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