Time’s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There’s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote.
In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the rule of law and Obama’s campaign rhetoric pointed in favor of disclosure, won an internal argument to release the so-called “torture memos,” only to be outmaneuvered weeks later by members of the administration’s national security team. Take a look.
Unlike, say, the transparance of CJR allowed their chairperson being allowed to fundrauise for Left wing magazine and NEVER investigating them?
You mean Navasky is going to publish a statement saying fundraisng for the Nation and covering for American Prospect, Nation and New Republic is wrong?
Hopefully, it will be published so everyone in the blogosphere and the MSM can read it!
#1 Posted by JSF, CJR on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 05:17 PM
JSF? Not on topic moron. Read the article or shut up.
It actually shows Obama backing away from the freedom and transparency pledges that showed promise because of his interesting, outside of Washington staff picks and how that's descended downward since Obama has embraced the national secrecy policies of status quo dems like Rahm Emmanuel.
Who ironically happens to be a motormouth press leaker about people and policies he doesn't like.
Craig is going to be one of many missed departures.
And democrat or republican, a Rove is a Rove. Rahm is bad business. Howard Dean was pushed out the same way after he crafted the template of the Obama campaign. There are so many good people watching mediocre people run the government through frosty windows.
It's a shame.
#2 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Sun 22 Nov 2009 at 12:45 PM
LOL!
You, who tried tio bring up President Bush in EVERY hate-spittled comment you write, charging me with "Changing of subject,"
HA! I nearly spilt my coffee over the keyboard!
That is funny!
#3 Posted by JSF, CJR on Sun 22 Nov 2009 at 01:49 PM
Only you pretend the past isn't relevant. You can't talk about a country left with Clinton's surplus going to Obama's deficit without talking about what happened in between.
CJR's chairperson isn't relevant AT ALL to the discussion of Craig and the purging of progressives and competence from the actions of Rahm and Summers.
#4 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Sun 22 Nov 2009 at 08:49 PM