Why Did Obama Hire a Top Criminal Attorney for WH Counsel? [...] - TopicsExpress



          

Why Did Obama Hire a Top Criminal Attorney for WH Counsel? [...] Which brings us to the strange case of President Obama’s decision to hire Neil Eggleston to be his new White House Counsel. Eggleston is the kind of guy you go to when someone tells you, “time to lawyer up.” He’s a veteran at cleaning up ethics messes for politicians, most notably Bill Clinton, whom he aided during the Whitewater investigations and the Monica Lewinsky affair, double entendre intended. But that’s not nearly all. He represented Rahm Emanuel during the scandal surrounding former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, as well as Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and George W. Bush political director Sara Taylor when scandals touched them, Clinton Cabinet members Federico Pena and Alexis Herman during corruption probes, and various business people involved in “complex criminal investigations” according to the New York Times. Which begs and pleads the question, is Obama looking for more protection for the White House from the various GOP congressional probes, or is he aware of the possibility that something much, much worse could break? [...] Continued @ White House Dossier. networkedblogs/WcrrH
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:10:12 +0000

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