The Montgomery Advertiser does some good follow-up on Thomas Gallion III this morning. He says he could not have made a threat to Rob Riley, as he indicated to the Birmingham News (and how much of a threat is “this is war”, anyway?) because he hasn’t spoken to him since 2003.

Gallion acknowledged that he informally is advising Simpson as she has become enmeshed in a congressional inquiry into whether the Bush Justice Department targeted Democrats for criminal investigation to gain political advantage.

The Siegelman case has become a focal point of the House inquiry.

Asked why he was doing that, Gallion said of Simpson: “She was really scared.”

Montgomery lawyer Priscilla Black Duncan accompanied Simpson to Washington on Sept. 14 when she gave her sworn testimony to the Judiciary Committee staffers.

But Gallion, who represented the Republican National Committee during the Reagan administration, said he has promised Simpson that he would represent her in an official capacity if there were any GOP retaliation for her revelations to Congress.

It does seem like Gallion has a pretty serious ax to grind with the Rileys, but that doesn’t mean he should be excluded from advising Simpson. When you’re trying to tie people’s motives into the equation, it gets very, very messy. If we can stick to the facts and the law here, I think everyone would be a lot better off.

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