Obama's White House spent "three days" looking at how it could legally get involved in the case on a federal level, one source said. The Obama administration even called the state of Georgia about getting involved and were told "No".
"'We looked at every possible avenue legally,'" the source reported Obama said. "'There was not one there.'"
"'It was a state case and I could not intervene because it wasn't federal,'" another source reported Obama said.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The President tried to stop the Troy Davis execution...
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