White House Counsel Craig to Step Down

Fox News ^ | 11-13-09

[Justaham]

White House Counsel Greg Craig is expected to announce on Friday that he plans to step down from his post following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.

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 policies that initially enjoyed popular support but have since become liabilities for Obama.

These include the planned closure of the prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the release of Bush administration-era national-security documents.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"He represented the Cuban father of Elián González during the 2000 child custody dispute which ended when U.S. Marshals enforced court orders that the child be moved from the Florida home of relatives, where they had influenced the child to make a number of videos lashing out at his father.[8] The courts ultimately supported the father’s contention that the child should be returned to his custody, a decision father’s rights groups around the world greeted with overwhelming approval."

In other words, he was Fidel Castro's lawyer.

[hattend]

He’s getting rid of all the Clintonistas.

Something is afoot!

[Califreak]

He’ll have no trouble blending right into his new surroundings.

[300winmag]

He seems to have a lot of experience representing highly placed scum in the public trust.

He sounds like he's trying to become Hasan's defense lawyer. Then he can handle all the book and movie deals.

[uncitizen]

What a resume! No wonder his Lowness appointed him.

[kcvl]

Robert “Bob” Bauer, a prominent Washington attorney who worked with the Obama campaign, is expected to be named his successor, Democratic sources told Fox News late Thursday.

Bauer is married to Anita Dunn, interim Communications Director. Dunn relinquished her post this week and will leave the White House at month’s end.

[paudio]

I don’t know. It seems that Dunn resigned only because they didn’t want to have husband and wife under the same office, not because she couldn’t stand fire.

[OrangeHoof]

I guess kidnapping little Cuban boys and justifying their return to communism just doesn’t have the prestige it once did when they can now make whole nations communist.

[DoughtyOne]

Rats exciting the good ship Lolliflop?

[oyez]

Good riddance to a notorious ambulance chaser.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Unbelievable! What an administration. We might as well elect Chavez president. His administration probably wouldn’t be much more radical.

[rod1]

Poor Greg. I guess that D.C. is just not Havana...yet.

[John W]

As was said about this shyster many years ago, never trust a man with two first names.

[KSCITYBOY]

WOW - On the wrong side of every case.

[Eye of Unk]

[Right Wing Assault]

plans to step down from his post following a rocky tenure

WIMP! QUITTER! ALL obama people have a "rocky tenure," you fool. It's part of the job description. Didn't you read the contract?

[Right Wing Assault]

New obama bus on order.

[SueRae]

What a scum. Good riddance. Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em.

[visualops]

This is not a win, I believe he’ll be replaced by Anita Dunn’s husband.

[rlmorel]

Wow.

You know, there is a pattern there.

Back in the early Fifties, Joe McCarthy raked George Marshall over the coals as being in the pocket of communists. He had the guts and the conviction to go on the floor of the Senate and spell out exactly what he meant, no pulling of punches.

He discussed how at every single turn, every decision made was in the best interests of the Soviets or the Chicoms ranging from Yalta, Teheran, Potsdam and the postwar actions. He said that if the mistakes were made due to stupidity or incompetence, then the odds would be that at least some of the time, the correct action would take place.

I see the same thing here. If this person didn’t have a specific bent for perverts, totalitarians and scumbags, then he might have a decent client to his name.