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White House Counsel's Job at Stake
Wall Street Journal ^
| 08/03/2009
| EVAN PEREZ
Posted on 08/03/2009 9:17:49 PM PDT by mfnorman
WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House and a close aide to President Barack Obama, has helped lead the administration's efforts on several national-security issues that have stirred political problems for Mr. Obama.
These include the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the release of Bush administration-era national-security documents, and efforts to find legal ways to indefinitely hold some detainees who can't be put on trial.
Mr. Craig didn't respond to questions for this article.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhogwot; detainees; gitmo; gregcraig; lawyers
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To: goodtomato
More like he is being reassigned for some important work that just came up recently.
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posted on
08/03/2009 10:23:43 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
(It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
To: mfnorman
Mr. Craig has built a White House counsel's office of formidable size, with 41 lawyers, according to the administration's most recent filings. Mr. Bush left office with about 30 lawyers in his counsel's office. In response to earlier questions about why he had built such a large office, Mr. Craig said: "We have the best new law firm on the planet." Empire builder... with taxpayer money, of course. What a scumbag.
To: mfnorman
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posted on
08/03/2009 10:46:45 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: goodtomato
historically speaking rats don’t jump ship until the bitter end, correct, no?
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posted on
08/03/2009 10:54:04 PM PDT
by
MissDairyGoodnessVT
("Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow"C.Coolidge)
To: mfnorman
Is there any update to this? Has Craig been booted yet???
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posted on
08/12/2009 8:30:59 AM PDT
by
Hootch
(Another perspective)
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