White House counsel Greg Craig will resign on Friday, according to a White House official.The announcement by Craig, who fell into disfavor with other top officials over his handling of President Barack Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, will come just hours after the president arrives in Japan for a weeklong trip to Asia.
Craig will be replaced by Bob Bauer, a longtime Democratic election lawyer who also has served as Obama's personal lawyer, according to the White House official.
While the departure was widely rumored for months Craig steadfastly denied that he was on his way out in an interview last month.
“I have no plans to leave whatsoever," Craig told the National Law Journal on Oct. 12.
"The rumors that I'm about to leave are false."
Why do they do that? It just makes them look worse.
Read the article if you need to be reminded of the troubles Craig has had.
It remains to be seen if Bauer will make things any easier.
Though Bauer is an unquestioned Obama insider, his legal track record and issue stances haven’t always jibed with Obama’s stances.Obama has long cast himself as an advocate for reducing the role of special interest cash in politics. But Bauer until a few years ago had been a vocal critic of certain efforts to restrict political spending. In fact, a case he brought in 2005 on behalf of EMILY’s List recently resulted in a sweeping federal court ruling that experts predict could pave the way for a flood of new 527 spending that could target Obama in his 2012 reelection campaign.
In addition, while Obama has pledged to fix the public financing system as president, Bauer in a 2005 blog post suggested such effort could be futile because public “support is needed and not forthcoming."
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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