remember? Lawyer for Commie Elian Gonzalez's dad. Wonder who paid that bill, Fidel?
Perhaps a foundation that launders money for George Soros ...
Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.
Craig is intimately familiar with the president-elect's record because he played the role of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in debate preparations.
That doesn't mean squat since not even Bambi knows what his record is. Though it was likely a quick brief ...
The officials said Obama has settled on Craig but were not sure when the appointment would be announced.
The choice gives the president-elect both experience and loyalty. During the primaries, Craig was an early Clinton alumni defector to Obama. Columnist Robert D. Novak reported back in the winter of 2007 that Craig had told him he "was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, an intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons."
Craig was an Obama foreign policy adviser during the campaign. At the start of the Clinton administration, he had been the State Department's Director of Policy Planning, the head of State's in-house think tank. He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
The White House counsel, among the most powerful members of the West Wing inner circle, serves as the president's lawyer, giving him legal advice and handling pardons and conflict-of-interest issues.
Craig, 63, is a partner at Williams & Connolly and a protégé of the late Edward Bennett Williams, the legendary Washington power lawyer. His selection adds to the surprisingly large number of Clinton White House veterans who are at the top of the Obama roster.
What's so surprising? Bambi has to turn to Democrats who at least know the ropes. It's not like the progressive mopes on the Left know anything about goverance, since they've always fought against it ...
Craig, who had been friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham at Yale Law School, was recruited for the impeachment job by John Podesta, then deputy White House chief of staff and now a leader of Obama's transition.
A Washington Post profile in 1998 by Lloyd Grove and John F. Harris reported: "Craig brought along his best bedside manner when Clinton summoned him to the White House residence on the night of Sept. 10 -- the day after independent counsel Kenneth Starr's lurid report to Congress was published on the World Wide Web. On a balcony overlooking the South Lawn, Clinton and Craig sat talking for two hours."
Among Craig's other high-profile cases: successfully representing Elian Gonzalez' father, a Cuban, in his efforts to regain custody of his son; and representing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in connection during the Volcker Commission's investigation of the Oil-for-Food Program at the United Nations.
He's got all the correct seedy recommendations then ...
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LOL - could've been clearer. Poor brainwashed Elian. His Dad is the Commie, Janet Reno and this POS are main culprits
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Change you can believe in? It's beginning to look like another Clinton administration.
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Is this deja vu all over again, or have the flys stopped circling D.C. and begun to land on a newly layed hot one? I hope the Good Lord gives me a few more years. I surely wouldn't want to miss any of this.
I had to find something for this page!
The jurors had spent the better part of two days battling one of their own, Juror No. 9, who had refused to participate in deliberations. Several feared that they were headed for a hung jury, an ignominious end to the month-long corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress. But when the jurors reconvened a few days later, it took them just hours to find Stevens guilty on all seven counts of lying on financial disclosure forms to hide more than $250,000 in gifts and renovations to his Girdwood, Alaska, house.
The jurors said they went from near-disaster to a quick verdict after they put their bickering aside and realized that prosecutors had presented an overwhelming case. Stevens, they said, did himself no favors by taking the stand, where he destroyed the grandfatherly image his lawyers had carefully crafted.
For most of the trial, the 84-year-old senator sat hunched over the defense table listening to testimony through court-issued headphones. He fit the part, some jurors said, of an elderly gentleman who left many of life's details - including his house renovations - to others.
But the jurors' empathy vanished the moment Stevens came under cross-examination. Stevens, the jurors said, came off as evasive, arrogant and combative, and his answers did not jibe with the evidence. He said one gift was a loan and that others were not gifts at all. He said he was not aware that work had been done on his house.
"He looked fragile for most of the trial, and then he testified, and, man, he became this lion," said Colleen Walsh, one of two jurors and two alternates interviewed about their experiences during the trial. "I thought, 'Wait a minute, if the defense is trying to portray this man as a sympathetic character who didn't know what was going on in his life, why did they put him on the stand and he could recall everything that happened except the gifts?' "
Two weeks after the jury returned its verdict, its ramifications still are not known. Stevens's lawyers are expected to file court documents seeking to overturn it, and U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has not set a sentencing date. Stevens faces as much as five years in prison on each count. Despite the trial, Stevens ran for a seventh full term and trails his Democratic opponent by 1,022 votes in the most recent tally.
The jurors said they are not surprised the senator garnered such support. Stevens is revered in Alaska, and testimony from high-profile figures such as former secretary of state Colin L. Powell showed that Stevens is well liked and respected, they said. After Veco workers testified about helping to turn the modest cabin into a two-story house with a garage, whirlpool and two wraparound decks, the trial got interesting, jurors said.
That is when prosecutors introduced a stack of e-mails between Stevens and a family friend who monitored the renovations. The e-mails highlighted Allen's work and lauded the labor of Veco employees at the house, which Stevens and his wife call "the chalet."
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Being guilty as sin probably didn't help his case much either.
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He's one piece of trash the NEW Republican Party doesn't need cluttering up the landscape. John McCain is another - too old, too slow, and too opinionated, trusting too many of the wrong people.
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