Obama selected Gregory Craig, a presidential assassin’s lawyer, as White House counsel.
Craig has plenty of experience in politics as well as the courtroom, having served as Bill Clinton’s legal counsel during the impeachment hearings. Craig flipped from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama early in the primaries, and Obama has repaid his support — but Craig’s caseload will raise a few eyebrows:
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
John Hinckley, Jr. — Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
Elian Gonzalez’s father — Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom. Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US. The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
Kofi Annan — The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon (Active client) — A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992. The Dallas Morning News demanded that Obama force Craig to drop the case during the campaign, but no report of whether he did is easily available.
I doubt that any President has selected the defender of a presidential assassin as White House Counsel before now.
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Eric Holder, Bill Clinton’s former Deputy Attorney General, has been named Attorney General. Holder was involved in the pardon of Marc Rich, the Democratic donor who had fled the country to avoid prosecution on 51 counts of tax fraud and was not eligible for a pardon under Justice Department guidelines. Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, was a major contributor to Clinton campaigns and to the Clinton library fund — and probably one of Clinton’s bimbos.
Mr. Holder’s recommendation to pardon circumvented normal procedures and kept other Justice Department lawyers in the dark. A congressional committee described his conduct as “unconscionable.”
Then there was Holder’s involvement in the Elian Gonzalez case in 2000. It was Holder, for the first time in history, that took a child from his residence at the point of a gun to enforce his custody position, even though he did not have an legal order authorizing it.
Holder denied that Gonzalez was taken at the point of a gun. When he was confronted with the fact that there was a photograph showing he was taken at the point of a gun...
Holder defended himself, saying “They were armed agents who went in there who acted very sensitively.”
Holder also argued that members of a terrorist organization should get clemency. He was grilled in Congress after the Clinton Administration pardoned FALN terrorists before leaving office. This testimony on the Clinton pardons of the 16 FALN terrorists took place in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Chairman Orrin Hatch grilled Holder because the FALN terrorists never even requested clemency...
And, the Clinton Administration never even contacted the victim’s families.
Then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and the pardon attorney continued to invoke the president’s executive privilege throughout the testimony.
Further links and videos at:
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaCabinet.htm
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These men have proven that they are perfectly willing to operate out of the bounds of decency, our Constitution, and to act in direct opposition to America’s laws, sovereignty and to their oaths.
THEY ARE NOW BEING ACTIVELY ENABLED BY THEIR ANTI-AMERICAN BOSS. WHAT WILL THEY DO TO PROVIDE AID, COMFORT AND VITAL INFORMATION TO OUR SWORN ENEMIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS ??
WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END ??
Doubtful Mr. Anita Dunn will be an improvement over Holder.
NY will be ground zero once again. The presser today was enlightening, from what I saw. The msm asked tough questions that were answered in a most glib manner.
We are doomed. 2010 is all that can save us.
Who wants to bet the Greg Craig isn't hired by some Saudi or Egyptian billionaire to defend KSM?
Who knows if he didn't quit the White House Counsel job just so he could defend KSM?
This is insane to have this happening on our soil and civilian court.