He is obviously a good Beltway DemonicRat!
When any form of smoke screen must be set up one finds the snake's face show up on the fly. Billy Boy naturally would have seeked out the lowest life but cleaver lawyer he could possiblly find to represent him way back when. Notice how the demorats made sure he was a member of the 9/11 commission, to make sure everything stayed within the boundaries the demorats wanted to commission to steer.