Obama Goes to the Mattresses

American Spectator ^ | 11-16-09 | The Prowler

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The ugliness surrounding the pushing out of White House Counsel Gregory Craig was months in the making, but culminated on the day on which the White House announced that the Justice Department would be prosecuting Guantanamo prisoners on U.S. soil, the very project Craig was supposedly brought into the administration to bring about.

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Rumors -- some generated by current Hillary Clinton allies at the State Department -- swirled that Craig had failed to gain the proper security clearances for his job, or that he had run afoul of the First Lady's staff in not moving quickly enough to clear several staffers.

Another rumor had him angering White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett for not supporting her hand-picked political appointees, such as former Obama aide Van Jones.

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"We've had it out for him for quite a while," says one current Clinton loyalist who is not in the administration.

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But more mysterious than Craig's exit was the announced move eight days ago by Craig's deputy, Cassandra Butts, a Harvard classmate of Obama's and one of the administration's highest-ranking African Americans.

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... and Obama's personal attorney, Robert Bauer, who has worked on a number of Obama personal issues over the past five years, is now taking the Counsel job.

In the capacity as Obama's personal attorney, Bauer has worked on issues related to Obama's ties to former Obama fundraiser and friend and now convicted felon, Tony Rezko, Obama's convoluted birth certificate and citizenship law suit, which was dismissed by the courts as frivolous, Obama's ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

He also has knowledge of Obama's work as a community organizer and his other efforts going back to the Obama's days in Chicago and, further back, New York.

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Hmmmm. these comments are verrry interesting:

He also has knowledge of Obama's work as a community organizer and his other efforts going back to the Obama's days in Chicago and, further back, New York.

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As well, while the Tony Rezko trials may be over, the prosecution of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and several associates will begin early next year, and the case built by current U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald may enmesh the President, not only because Rezko, a close friend to Obama, who helped him buy a home (in a deal that may have been handled, in part, by Bauer), is deeply involved in the Blagojevich scandals, as are a number of other Obama supporters and allies.

Some former Obama staffers from the Senate point to the recent plea agreement of former Blagojevich chief of staff Alonzo "Lon" Monk, who has ties to Obama and Rezko, as an event that had some senior White House officials wary of the direction Fitzgerald might take the Blagojevich trial.

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~~DING!

[MajorThomas]

As rats will leave a sinking ship, I guess there are always other rats to try and replace them, regardless of the consequences.

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MUST READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE!

“”[Bauer] knows where all the bodies are buried, and this indicates that there is something amiss with this White House, or at least someone is nervous about what is going on,” says a former Obama transition team adviser. “You don’t just make these kinds of changes for the sake of rearranging the deck chairs, and not at this time with at least three legislative and policy decisions looming that the Counsel’s office would have been deeply involved in.”

[MestaMachine]

Next move is bill clinton. obama thinks he has enough power to pull himself away from the godfather. It is gonna get real ugly.

[teletech]

I think these folks see Obama is in trouble and they are leaving before the ship sinks. If Obama’s poll numbers don’t improve, watch for more folks to go out the Whithouse door. I hope the Obama house-of-cards administration crumbles into little pieces. It’s fun to see the RATS start to eat their own.

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Bauer has publicly defended President Obama’s connections with ACORN, the controversial group currently under investigation in several states. Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa said that “Bauer’s hiring appears to be a tactical maneuver to strategically defend the White House exactly one week after Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell raided ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans and seized paper records and computer hard drives that may lead to the White House.”

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Bob Bauer has an established reputation as an “aggressive” counsel, and has won enemies on both sides of the political aisle for his tactics. During the presidential election he allegedly crashed a conference call held by Senator Clinton’s campaign, and is also involved in several lawsuits surrounding Obama. As Obama’s personal attorney and chair of the Political Law Group of Perkins Coie LLP, Bauer represented the President during former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich’s corruption investigation. Additionally, Perkins Coie is currently defending challenges to Obama’s citizenship. Bauer’s new role as White House counsel will no doubt prove interesting.
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/foiablog/2009/nov/bob-bauer-named-new-white-house-counsel

http://www.judicialwatch.org/story/2009/aug/acorn-documents-federal-election-commission

There’s so much stuff on these people...sooo much corruption.

[Bellflower]

ping

[hoosiermama]

bump for Chicago thread.

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Cassandra Butts?

One of the Butts Sistas?

[Candor7]

Obama Goes to the Mattresses?

Buahahahahahahahahaha!

Obama IS the mattress.

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~~~#7 PING!

[thouworm]

“”[Bauer] knows where all the bodies are buried,

but that no one seems to care that for the first time, I think ever, we have a President's personal attorney also serving as White House counsel.

It's all about Bauer---Obama's human shield.

(who now, I would suppose, is immune from subpoena)

I would like to read/hear more expert commentary on this major development.

[Night Hides Not]

Cassandra Butts? One of the Butts Sistas?

Let me guess...she has a sister named Bertha?

[hoosiermama]

We have a Butts family in our community. Red and Rosey.....

[circumbendibus]

>>>...no one seems to care that for the first time, I think ever, we have a President's personal attorney also serving as White House counsel.<<<<

So the KSM trial is just a diversion from the Blago and the eligibility lawsuits to be brought in 2010.

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For the first time in awhile, if it
actually happens and no other critical
principles happen to stop breathing or
get terrified into silence, I think
maybe there’s an outside chance that
Blago’s trial will reveal hidden dirt
some would rather remains hidden.

It’s a longshot, but I pray it is so.

[okie01]

...but that no one seems to care that for the first time, I think ever, we have a President's personal attorney also serving as White House counsel.

Agree with you. This is the most significant single sentence in the entire article.

This whole affair looks like a move to strengthen the inner citadel, anticipating some kind of assault.