{"id":190568,"date":"2009-11-13T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/breaking-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:21:00","slug":"breaking-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/breaking-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Greg Craig Out as White House Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the point man on closing down the gulag at Guantanamo, drafting the memo that called for closing it within a year, as well as the point man on releasing the Bush White House torture memos, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/13craig.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">he&#8217;s been fired (resigned)<\/a> in a classic Friday afternoon bury the news tactic.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this means that Barack Obama intends to &#8220;embrace and extend&#8221;, indefinite detention, probably at Bagram rather than Gitmo, show trials called military commissions, and torture, but YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/13\/AR2009111302143.html?hpid=topnews\">replacing him will be Robert Bauer<\/a>, who was Barack Obama&#8217;s personal attorney from 2005 onwards, as well as the general council for both the DNC and OFA, so I think that what we are getting here is someone who will be a providing justifications for actions, as opposed to reviewing them for legality.<\/p>\n<p>Think Alberto &#8220;Abu&#8221; Gonzales writ small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the point man on closing down the gulag at Guantanamo, drafting the memo that called for closing it within a year, as well as the point man on releasing the Bush White House torture memos, and now he&#8217;s been fired (resigned) in a classic Friday afternoon bury the news tactic. My guess is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}