Pardon?

WASHINGTON D.C. - Just two days after her inauguration, President Hillary Clinton issued a pardon to former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. Siegelman serving a seven year sentence on Federal corruption charges received the news the evening before while engaging in a game of squash at the federal prison in Oakdale,Louisiana.

"This comes as a complete surprise!" Siegelman commented to reporters accompanying U.S. Attorney General and ex-president Bill Clinton who personally delivered the pardon documents. Attorney General Clinton declined comment except to say, "We'll soon be changing the name on Don's cell to "prisoner Rove."

Sources close to Siegelman expected that he would soon be appointed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery. Siegelman is reported commenting, "The Spanish Inquistion will look like a girl scout barbeque when I get through with those lying bastards who stuck me in this hellhole."