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Posted on 05/21/2008 10:04:38 PM PDT by PROCON
An attorney and top foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama is coming under fire for representing controversial figures, including an accused human-rights abuser, an alleged murderer of a U.S. soldier and even the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan.
Greg Craig, who has been termed the "lawyer of the left," represented John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate Reagan in 1981 by firing six bullets at the president as he left a hotel. Craig was reportedly the architect of Hinckley's successful defense in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, even though reports by the federal prosecution found Hinckley sane.
As a partner in the high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly, Craig represented Former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzain in a federal lawsuit of "crimes against humanity" due to his alleged role in the suppression of labor union riots in 2003 that resulted in the deaths of 67 people
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This definitely needs to be sent to Rush, Hannity, Savage, Levin and the rest of the conservative talk show hosts. The MSM, obviously, will try to bury this along with anything else that is negative about Hitler II.
Can you please move this to breaking news? :-)
Yet another Scumbag Friend and Associate of Barry.
Why is it that I am not surprised?
It all makes sense to me, Obama fits in perfectly with these people, all peas in a pod.
This is Good! Hope there is more coming that will end this Muslim Marxist’s political career for good. Course, that will leave Hillary as the Dim candidate.
And the leftist pundits criticize McCain for having campaign staff who lobby for foreign governments. This is a thousand times worse. Oh the Hypocracy!
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Those of us old-timers here know well of
Greg Craig. He’s been around the liberal
block a time or two.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/craig111998.htm
Crisis Quarterback: Gregory Craig Is Calling the Plays On Clinton’s Team
By Lloyd Grove and John F. Harris
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 19, 1998; Page D01
Gregory B. Craig’s friends were perplexed two months ago when he gave up one of the most prestigious jobs in Washington to take one of the most troublesome:
Why descend from the rarefied aerie of foreign policy into the squalid mess of a sex scandal?
Even Craig — who’ll be in the game today as President Clinton’s designated “quarterback” when the House Judiciary Committee opens its impeachment hearings — wasn’t eager for the new assignment.
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He also served as the U.S. special coordinator on Tibet, managing a critical piece of the Sino-American relationship. These plum assignments were the logical extension of Craig’s quarter-century as a blue-chip Washington lawyer, influential Senate staffer and key player in the foreign policy establishment.
But getting mixed up in Clinton’s personal problems struck some as a lousy career move. Moreover, Craig was joining a White House staff simmering with factional disputes since the Monica Lewinsky matter became public in January.
Yet Craig was hardly new to the business of rescuing public figures from perilous personal crises.
While at the powerhouse law firm of Williams & Connolly — where he was a partner of David Kendall, now Clinton’s private attorney — Craig safely guided his former boss, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), through hazardous televised testimony in the 1991 Palm Beach rape trial of nephew William Kennedy Smith.
“There’s no one I’d rather be with in a crisis,” says Ethel Kennedy, another member of the famous clan who has relied on Craig’s advice in recent years.
Have faith. We survived Clintons Arkanside years.
LOL. Love that headline.
The guy is a long time lefty—worked for Albright. John Kerry took some heat for pegging him as an advisor, too.
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Lawyer of the Left...whatever happened to Ramsey Clark?
Oh, thank you for that. I didn’t know.
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