Obama is going to get exactly what he wants: a pliable administration that will deliver exactly what he desires without serious examination of the issues or consequences, and without the benefit of sound but dissenting voices.
As a result of his declassification of security memos and findings – and serious talk about investigating or prosecuting those who wrote them – Obama is making sure that the government gets less and less access to talented and educated legal theory and opinion.
Obama’s policy on these issues bore proof of this when Andrew McCarthy declined attending a roundtable conference designed to give the administration cover on DOJ policy decisions.
McCarthy refused to take the bait, saying in part:
“Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.”
We may rapidly be approaching a situation where Obama first has to offer immunity and a blanket pardon to talented lawyers before getting them to agree to serve in or advise the administration.
Without talented legal theory and dissent, Obama will open the government up to legal attacks (suits, appeals) to smarter lawyers who were way too smart to serve.
It will be one of the ultimate self-licking ice creazm cones – a government full of selfish, untalented lawyers providing short-sighted advice attacked by outside legal talent (for patriotic or selfish purposes).
McCarthy could have illustrated this more clearly by offering to serve only if he was granted immunity!
Maybe Obama will get exactly what he wants.
Then we collectively, through our government, will become the ultimate victims – prey to any party that wishes to sue over policies underwritten by poorly chosen attorneys (ie: the ones who cannot forsee being prosecuted over their opinions).
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Speaking of lawyers, I didn't know Holders firm represents several guantanamo detainees!!
Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, May 1st at 5:28PM EST (link)From Michelle Malkin
[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo.
From the C & B website:
The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Indeed!
Ron Robinson (Diary) Friday, May 1st at 6:18PM EST (link)And these are just the dumb types of lawyers who would get policy enacted to lower what they can bill their clients (better to spend years fighting policy and render big bills)
If they are that dumb, then they will certainly be willing to serve this administration…..and be prosecuted later when Obama’s priorities shift or he sees how his policies are harming his polling….
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Ron Robinson
Chair, AD 49 Republican Central Committee
California Republican Central Committee
PROCINCT Author/ Founder
The Precinct Project
Unified Patriots – How-To: Activists Taking Action!
Any prudent lawyer (or breathing individual) would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, May 1st at 5:43PM EST (link)Mr. Obama we hardly knew ya…
Swept in on a tidal wave of hope & change it looked as
if you could do no wrong. 100 glorious leftist days.
For 100 days the left has basked in your warm amber glow
of socialist spirit. A socialist spirit that seemed so strong
not even the strongest conservative could overcome it.
Yet the cracks in the hull of the goodship Obama are
starting to show. Only 100 days and the goodship Obama
seems to have a broken rudder as it aimlessly streams around
in the hope & change harbor, unable to lift anchor to steam
ahead into the uncharted waters of socialist America.
Ah yes laddies the goodship Obama is full of holes and taking
water on from the hope & change harbor. It won’t be long before the conservative pirates jump aboard and start slitting throats……
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.