I've always had a hard time getting my hands around the idea that the whole case against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was a political hatchet job. Not that there's nothing fishy there, but as a rule, the more moving parts to an alleged conspiracy, the more skeptical I am. In the Siegelman case, there are those who argue that the White House, Justice Department, field prosecutors, and trial judge were all in cahoots with the Alabama GOP establishment. That's a lot of moving parts. But that doesn't make it untrue, and today's report in Time that all of the Republicans initially fingered in the probe were never investigated--well, there's an exception to every rule.