"60 Minutes" preparing report on Siegelman case

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TUSCALOOSA | I'm getting reports from all over that CBS's "60 Minutes" is gathering information in Alabama about the case of incarcerated former Gov. Don Siegelman.

First I got an email from a friend who forwarded another email saying that a women who works for the program had contacted the Alabama Department of Archives and History "in an effort to locate the negative television ads that Steve Windom ran against Siegelman in 2002."

Next I heard from a local political operative that he had been contacted by a "60 Minutes" producer looking for insights into the players in the trial that sent the former governor to federal prison for seven years. There have been at least four such producers working on the story in Alabama the last few weeks he said.

Finally, I got an email from someone who was close to Siegelman and has been working diligently to get him out of prison by any legal means necessary. This is part of what he wrote:

"They started working on it about two months ago. They have conducted some15 or 16 interviews. They have talked to all the lawyers, some family, and have been unable to get permission from Justice to interview Don. They have interviewed Doug Jones, Republican AG from Arizona Grant Woods, and Artur Davis. It will be very comprehensive in it's scope, covering the questions about the direction of the investigation and including the main question which is 'was the convicted charge a crime?'"
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