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"Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.
The choice gives the president-elect both experience and loyalty. During the primaries, Craig was an early Clinton alumni defector to Obama. Columnist Robert D. Novak reported back in the winter of 2007 that Craig had told him he “was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, an intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons.”
Craig was an Obama foreign policy adviser during the campaign. At the start of the Clinton administration, he had been the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning, the head of State’s in-house think tank. He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
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.
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.
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 - A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992.
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Oh, like duh electing Hussein was letting the fifth column into the middle of the citadel.
A pure pure product of American Versailles:
Craig is the son of William G. Craig, a university educator, former Dean of Students at Stanford University, president of several universities and colleges, and first Director of Training for the Peace Corps, who died in 2005.
Greg Craig went to Philips Exeter Academy, then graduated in the class of 1967 of Harvard (where he sang in the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes), following which he attended Cambridge University. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1971 from Yale Law School, where he met Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham. His first employment following law school was with the Washington-based law firm Williams & Connolly, where he is now a partner.
Whoa AI, how's this gonna fit in your "Palin is cancer" narrative?
"Palin is cancer"? WTF are you talking about? As I said, she looks nice enough. But she reached the upper bound of her level of competence when she was elected Gov of Alaska. Anything above that would be a stretch, I think.
At any rate, what does Palin have to do with any of this? You seem to randomly pull Mitt and/or Palin in any political discussion, even when they have nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Sorry. Mr Straman comes out sometimes. The cancer thing was David Brooks. You know all abou tthat, no?
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