If "60 Minutes" had evidence of Simpson's greater involvement in Alabama GOP politics (and Alabama officials deny this) - thereby buttressing her charges against Rove - why not include it in the story?

The dog that didn't bark.

ROVE DID IT!! Checking records, his weather machine was hard wired to the Texas wind farm, andduring that period there was a lull, similar to the past weeks', which provided a lower than expected voltage, which in turn, casued a software clitch in the autodial-speech synthesizer. This hiccup then, sent the above mentioned reqeust. It was a robo call gone bad. Further resarch has found that the programmers, clinton hold-overs, had inserted some of bills' profile, hence the wife cheating reqeusts.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

It's amusing that anyone would believe that the Whitehouse would spend 5 years trying to frame up the governor of Alabama.

Especially when you consider how quickly and perfectly the 9/11 scam came together for them.

Eddie Curran, the Mobile Press-Register reporter who broke much of the story about Don Siegelman's corruption, wrote a very long letter to "60 Minutes" complaining about the story. It's quite lengthy as Mr. Curran goes into details about the payoffs given Siegelman. 

However, the section in his letter about the accuser, Dana Jill Simpson, and her claims merits attention (warning, this is long):

Curran to "60 Minutes": 

Dana Jill Simpson: I assume you [60 Minutes] are aware of her constantly expanding and evolving stories. That you even put her on television after reviewing these ever-evolving tales is incredible. Furthermore, you absolutely had to know of her association with the Siegelman and Scrushy legal teams that began, at the latest, in February of last year. Among other things, she has testified to doing what would appear to be an illegal credit check report on the judge who presided over the case.

          We reporters in Alabama, no doubt because we’re dumb rednecks or being paid off by Republicans, have from the beginning seen Simpson for what she is: a very lonely person with a very – and this is your word – vivid imagination.

          It would appear – or at least, CBS made it appear – that this particular Rove claim (there have already been several by her relating to her allegations that Rove was involved in the Siegelman administration)”) was new. This was suggested by Scott Pelley’s surprise, which I trust was not feigned.

          As anyone who has ever worked in a newsroom knows, it is almost a daily occurrence for someone to come by or call and spin the most amazing stories. A few, a very few, are true. A decent reporter can usually tell the difference in about a minute.
      The crazy ones are treated politely and ushered out the door as soon as possible. Considering her past stories -- none corroborated by a single human being -- 60 Minutes should never have interviewed her in the first place. However, after that mistake, once she started on the Rove tale, Pelley, the producers, the janitor, someone, should have pulled the switch.
     This leads me to ask the following questions of the journalists at CBS:

          After Simpson delivered these explosive and entirely uncorroborated accusations (again, all of her stories are uncorroborated)  did 60 Minutes ask Simpson where she followed Siegelman, as in what cities and on what dates?

Having done so, did 60 Minutes conduct a simple Nexis search of stories during that period? After all, Siegelman’s trips and actions were covered almost daily by the press, especially the AP.

And also asked her:

           Who funded this top-secret mission? She does not live anywhere near Montgomery and one assumes that while carrying out this top-secret assignment she incurred hotel, travel, and meal bills. Did you ask her if she had any records of these bills? Is there anyone alive who can corroborate this?  

 Did you ask her: How was a big redhead like you able to follow Alabama’s governor for months without being seen by the governor or his security?
          Did you follow him by car? Hide in the bushes? Hover above in a helicopter?
          You claim that this was not the first "intelligence" assignment given you by Rove. What were the others?  
          You said you met him working on past campaigns. Which campaigns and can you provide us with a single person who also worked on these campaigns who can confirm that you worked on them and that, furthermore, you met Rove while doing so?    

 Pelley, with a wink and a nod, noted that Rove worked in some Alabama campaigns. This is widely known. They were judicial races in the mid-1990s. I was in Alabama at the same time and, remarkably, never ran into Rove. I doubt Simpson did either though. However, if we are to trust your broadcast, you made no effort to check this out. You simply tossed it out that Rove had been in Alabama, as if our state is the size of Mayberry.

I’m not sure what would be worse, for CBS not to have asked such questions or to have asked them but not shown or reported that it did so to the audience, and given her responses and the results of your verification.

Instead of actually doing some legwork to support such a serious to say nothing of unlikely claim on national TV, the network simply covered its ass with the old, obviously expected denial from Rove.

Is that characterization of your journalism correct or incorrect?

Quin Hillyer, the former editorial page editor of the Mobile Press-Register, penned the following blistering piece about the "60 Minutes" story: Link.

Closing paragraph: "60 Minutes now has good reason to look up to the National Enquirer as a exemplar of journalistic ethics and accuracy to which 60 Minutes can only hope to aspire IF 60 Minutes would spend years improving its product."

Ouch.

... piece of rhino sh_t to ever hold the Alabama governorship.

He spent the entirety of his term and re-election campaign trying to shove a d_mn lottery down their throats ... even though Alabama citizens voted TWO-TO-ONE to reject a lottery.

And the corruption went much deeper than that ... the federal investigation only scratched the surface.