Rep. Allen Farley says he recorded a phone call last year with Gov. Robert Bentley because he'd already been burned once by the governor and didn't trust him not to do something similar again.

Now that conversation is on the internet, posted on YouTube by the political blog Yellowhammer News, and as Farley puts it, all the puzzle pieces are on the table.

"Everybody in the state of Alabama deserves to see every piece of the puzzle," Farley said Thursday.

In the conversation, which took place shortly after the governor's then-wife, Dianne Bentley, filed for divorce, Bentley denies rumors then that he was having an affair with his political advisor and he tells Farley that gambling interests are behind a campaign to discredit him, even going so far as to sabotage his marriage.

It was another conversation with the governor two years earlier that caused Farley to reach for his recorder.

According to Farley, he and the governor once had talked about whether prison commissioner Kim Thomas was capable of doing his job. Farley says he told the governor that the state needed someone else in charge of the prisons and that Bentley needed to find an interim commissioner in the meantime.

After that conversation, another political blogger and TV show host, Bill Britt, said on his program that Farley wanted the governor to appoint him prison commissioner. Farley says that was a mischaracterization of what he told the governor, but he believes that only the governor could have given Britt that idea.

So when the governor called again last year, this time Farley recorded everything that was said.

Throughout the conversation Bentley assured Farley that he is not having an affair, but conspicuously he kept those denials in the present tense, often interrupting when Farley asked if there is not nor ever was an affair. Bentley said he had been working too much than that Dianne had gotten jealous. Ultimately, when she filed for divorce, he had been completely surprised.

"When this happened the other day, I had no clue," he told Farley. "I found out about it from WSFA. I found out about it the same time you did."

Farley told the governor that he intended to ask Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to investigate whether anything illegal had happened. Bentley, in turn, tried to dissuade him.

But it was what the governor said about gambling interests that caused Farley to go public with the tape now. In the recording, Bentley says that gambling interests were trying to undermine him.

"Casino gambling people are feeding this story," Bentley told Farley.

In the conversation, Bentley said that the gambling interests were trying to sabotage the governor's efforts to pass new taxes so that gambling would be the only solution left on the table.

In the phone call, the governor is emphatic that he is anti-gambling.

Now, with the governor calling a special session and pushing lawmakers to pass a lottery referendum, Farley said, the public needed to know about his conversation with the governor.

Farley is a member of the Alabama House committee pursuing impeachment of Bentley, and the governor's attorney, Joe Espy, has demanded that Farley step down from the committee. Espy, Farley points out, has represented gambling magnate Milton McGregor, the man Bentley implied was behind the campaign to discredit him last year.

Farley wrote a post about it on his personal blog Monday and then his wife gave a copy of the recording to Yellowhammer, he said.

"The 'why now' is because of what was in that conversation a year ago about a lottery and gambling," Farley said Thursday.