Presidential Assassin’s Lawyer to be White House Counsel?
Tags: Government, Gregory Craig.
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Change which is absolutely freakin’ unbelievable:
Barack Obama has selected Gregory Craig as White House counsel, a move that will recall some controversial legal cases over the last few years…
…Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
* Elian Gonzalez’s father – Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom. Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US. The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
* John Hinckley, Jr – Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
* Kofi Annan – The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
* Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon – A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992. The Dallas Morning News demanded that Obama force Craig to drop the case during the campaign, but no report of whether he did is easily available.I doubt that any President has selected the defender of a presidential assassin as White House Counsel before now. Does anyone want to guess how long that takes to become a Trivial Pursuit question?
Everyone, even Castro’s goon, UN crooks and sundry cretins, has a right to counsel – but this is a tremendous misjudgement on the part of Obama. This is the worst sort of ambulance-chasing, celebrity lawyer we’re all sick to death of and, furthermore, someone who is clearly not capable of giving Obama that completely objective legal advice needed from the White House counsel’s office. The Obama Administration is taking on more and more of the look of an impending train wreck.
My prayer: I hope this report is just plain and simple wrong. Someone please tell me that Obama isn’t this obtuse…
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27 Responses to “Presidential Assassin’s Lawyer to be White House Counsel?”
Caucus of Corruption
Looks like the dude’s good at his job regardless of his clients’ character.
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost
Clinton was not convicted, so I’d say that Craig won that one. Unless you want to count the House vote to Impeach as a loss.
that completely objective legal advice needed from the White House counsel’s office.
You mean like what Alberto Gonzales gave Bush? Oh no, you mean the exact opposite of that.
One of the most predictable results of the Obama win is that the right wing is suddenly going to reverse its views and adopt positions that it has spent the past 8 years deriding and dismissing. That goes for big stuff like, say, the judicial filibuster (which the nuclear option fans are rediscovering), and, as we see here, it also goes for less overarching things like cabinet appointments. One need only sort through the archives of this blog to find out how they defended this sort of thing in the past (my guess is that the defense featured heavy use of the phrase “serves at the pleasure of the president”) and quote those defenses here.
orlando – don’t kid urself, both sides shamelessly reverse postitions when wondering in the wilderness but rationalize it in lawyerese.
having said that, some on this blog, like me, considered the gang of 14 to be practical.
politics is the last refuge of scoundrals – Will Rogers
Orlando, LOL, it’s our turn to reverse our views and adopt positions that we have spent the past 8 years deriding and dismissing. You’ll get your turn, just be patient. :-)
Deleted – obscenity.
“…the judicial filibuster (which the nuclear option fans are rediscovering), and, as we see here, it also goes for less overarching things like cabinet appointments…”
It’s about “protecting the rights of the minority party”…..ala Reid or Pelosi or some other lib.
I see the spirit of bipartisanship, a spirit that will be better executed under Democratic majority, as both Reid and Pelosi have stated, is going by the way side with the possible removal of Leiberman from his chairmanship because of his bipartisan support….namely McCain.
GASP!!!!
I see the libs have fooled you into their mythological behavior and the false promises of the future.
But your being a full-blooded Obamaton, nothing would surprise me.
Deleted – mindless insults.
Mark
seems like the donkroaches -forget about the $90,000.00 FINE and DISBARMENT !
Imagine that!
Notice once again that none of the libs say “gee, that is reprehensible. The guy is pond scum.”
Imagine the outrage if Bush had picked someone like this? Would have been a complete (and business as usual) meltdown from the libs.
LOL
exactly what is reprehensible? defending someones constitutional rights???
Not surprising that a Bushbot would see constitutional rights as reprehensible and someone who defends them as outrageous
Deleted – off topic.
Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a German Lutheran pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 wrote,
“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.”
14. js | November 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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Who, exactly, is coming to get you, js?
Don’t you live in the greatest DEMOCRACY in the history of the world.
And if THEY did come for your communist neighbor, wouldn’t YOU speak up?
I personally think that the law really needs a little clarification. IMHO John Hinckley was guilty of the offense, but because of insanity it was argued that he was without liability. To my mind, to say the insanity made him not guilty is wrong. But that’s just my opinion. Idaho, Kansas, Montana, and Utah seem to agree with me though, and have abolished the use of this as a defense argument altogether.
On the subject of Craig’s appointment, love or hate him he’s good at his job and that’s what is important. Whether you agree with him or not – you guys obviously don’t, and that’s fine – he managed to get that a$$hole Hinckley off on what was then a technicality. Agree with it or not, his side won the verdict they wanted, which proves that the man can take the worst of the worst clients and successfully defend him. That proves a very in depth knowledge of the law and that’s what Obama needs in a counsel.
His past clients aren’t really the issue here. It’s the same with saying guns kill people – although it could argue that physically, guns and the bullets they fire do kill people, it’s the person that pulls the trigger that’s responsible for the killing act. So, whether he’s had reprehensible clients in the past is neither here nor there. He’s good at his job – damn good – and that’s what any president needs as the person occupying the post of White House Counsel.
well, if “they” come 4 NAMBLA pedophiles I’m NOT speaking up.
CO – the US is a republic not a democracy.
I personally prefer an enlightened, benelovent monarchy but sucession to dimbulbs eventually becomes a problem.
there’s a fundamental ignorance of what
Not guilty by insanity actually means
It basically means you get locked away until you are cured – and since there is no cure for insanity Hinkley will never get out.
Meanwhile with parole even if you have a life sentence you can get out.
check it out – on average an insanity plea actually results in LONGER incarceration. All you law and order advocates should support it
Oh, maybe it was because I misread the twisted letters. That is so hard to make out sometimes. As an experiment I am reposting it below:
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In general, I don’t like lawyers because of what many have become. They pat themselves on the back if they can get an obviously guilty murderer off on a technicality.
Of course lawyers must have been disliked for a long time In one of Shakespeare’s plays, there is this exchange.
Cade:
I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick:
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
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17. OhioOrrin | November 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
CO – the US is a republic not a democracy.
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Yes, I know, OO, I was thinking along the lines of js’s Nazi reference; dictatorship vs democracy, in general terms.
He takes on the tough cases. Does he support the views of his clients? No, lawers rarely do, especialy lawers who know that their client is guilty.
You liberals are a piece of work. Siding with a man who defended an idiot who almost killed one of our presidents. I’m sure you will also be warm and glowing about Gutterball’s potential AG … Holder, the man who pardoned Rich and two Weatherman Underground arseholes and other terrorists.
Woo hoo! Gutterball sure has a lot of ties to terrorists. Must make you libs feel so proud.
I hope Mark/Matt moderate ALL the Liberals comments. If they do, maybe the Conservative posters will come back once the blog isn’t littered with Liberal spew.
Just unbelievable that you lefties are giving Obama a pass on this – slaves to a man, that is what you are.
Nauseating to see some of my fellow Americans behave like this…
Nauseating to see some of my fellow Americans behave like this…
Welcome to the past 8 years, then.
Mark,
There is nothing to defend. Liberals believe in equal protection under the law. Everyone is entitled to competent representation, regardless of what they are accused of doing. You seem to be upset that Obama would name someone who is actually good at their job.
donkmule
Does he support the views of his clients? No, lawers rarely do, especialy lawers who know that their client is guilty.
You mean like johnny cockram and OJ.
Dont believe this for a moment, there are lawyers who could watch you roast a person on a spit…..then defend him!
“there are lawyers who could watch you roast a person on a spit…..then defend him!”
Exactly. You helped to prove my point.