Posted on 11/09/2007 10:48:54 AM PST by SubGeniusX
Barry Richard, the Greenberg Traurig lawyer who achieved fame for his successful representation of George Bush in the Bush v. Gore recount suits, is set to give a speech blasting the Bush administration Saturday night.
Richard will be the keynote speaker at the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys' (NAFUSA) annual conference starting Thursday and running through Saturday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla.
More than 100 former U.S. attorneys are expected to attend the conference, which will also feature a panel discussion on the controversial U.S. attorney firings by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. That panel — scheduled for Saturday afternoon — will feature two of the eight former U.S. attorneys who were allegedly fired over politics last year: David Iglesias, former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, and John McCay, former U.S. attorney of the Western District of Washington. Additionally, James Eisenstein, a law professor at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, will serve on the panel.
The conference requires pre-registration.
But the session that is expected to ignite the most fireworks is the dinner speech by Richard. Richard said in an interview he has never spoken out against the Bush administration before and that he did not reveal the topic of his speech when asked to speak by NAFUSA.
"I'm sure people will see my name on the program and expect I will be defending the administration," said Richard, a Tallahassee, Fla., lawyer.
"But I'm a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration's assault on American liberties ... how the administration deals with habeas corpus and the administration's posture on electronic surveillance. This administration has gone farther than any other."
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I’m guessing the check for his Florida work cleared...
‘But I’m a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration’s assault on American liberties ... how the administration deals with habeas corpus and the administration’s posture on electronic surveillance. This administration has gone farther than any other.”’
That this guy, who most of us had forgotten, would ‘leak’ a speech in this manner tells me one thing, and one thing only.
He’s about to write a book, or the book is about to be released.
One of the two.
Bingo!
“More than 100 former U.S. attorneys are expected to attend the conference, which will also feature a panel discussion on the controversial U.S. attorney firings by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.”
You mean “manufactured controversy.”
The most appropriate procedure would be to fire them all at the beginning of every administration. Clinton may be a Communist Skirt chaser, but that was something he did right.
Odd to find a lawyer w/ principles...
He may just be one ...
This guy may wind up to be just another shoot from the hip Democrap, but I do have some concerns over the direction our government has headed with regard to surveylance.
As it relates to known terrorist players, I have a rather pronounced tollerance for eavesdropping. I do not like the idea of surveyling crowds and developing databases on individuals unless they have broken laws.
We have signed onto a whole lot of crap over the last ten years, and most of it concerns me gravely when I think of a Hillary Clinton Presidency and our being at the mercy of a Janet Reno on steroids.
Did Barry Richard make a speech when Bill Clinton fired all the US attorneys or when Hillary was thumbing through all the FBI files?
What speech did he give when Bill Clinton had the Secret Service detain innocent people who verbally offended Bill or when the Clinton White House had the IRS investigate every single conservative group in existence?
Does this upstanding fellow have some good public quotes for those occasions?
Hillary illegally had 900 FBI files and nothing was done. She will violate laws regardless, whatever is best for her “research”.
What more can she do WITH legal permission that she won’t ALREADY do without it?
“But I’m a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration’s assault on American liberties ... how the administration deals with habeas corpus and the administration’s posture on electronic surveillance. This administration has gone farther than any other.”
Will there be a compare and contrast against President Lincoln?
And how about FDR and the opening of US mail?
Richard is a RAT...been a RAT a long time
Democrat Plays Key Role on Bush Team (lead atty. Barry Richard)
The lawyer is correct.
That’s a valid point. We know that her appointments will be to people who are incompetent, compromised or both. So, no it really doesn’t matter. Still, you don’t give someone like this the cover to do a lot of things leagally by just twisting the meanings of guidelines.
We know she’ll go south on us. The question is how far south. With good rules in place, I submit she’ll have less cover and less opportunity.
One of Bush’s most serious failings was to have his justice department look into the crimes of both Clintons, at least during the White House years.
When he failed to do that, then signed on to locking up Presidential papers, I knew we had a real winner on our hands. (not)
“I’m guessing the check for his Florida work cleared...”
Or he can’t make enough money with Bush administration.
Didn’t think about that.
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