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Cuban-Americans are worried about the appointment of Gregory Craig to
the position of White House Counsel — owing, among other things, to his
role in the infamous Elian Gonzalez case that resulted in the refugee
youngster being forcibly returned to communist Cuba from Miami.
Gregory Craig worked for an Washington D.C.’s elite firm, Williams & Connolly, one of America’s priciest firms. That’s where he was “retained” by Elian’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a doorman at a Cuban hotel. Elian’s freedom-seeking mother drowned in the boat mishap that put Elian into the water off the Florida coast before he was rescued by U.S. authorities.
In short order, Craig flew to Cuba for an exclusive meeting about the case with none other than “El Lider Maximo” — Dictator Fidel Castro. The lawyer made his point to Castro that he absolutely needed Juan Miguel in the U.S. if he were ever to have a fighting chance to get the boy released to his surviving parent.
Just days later, the Cuban-American population, and Americans generally, were horrified to see machine gun-wielding agents of the INS push into the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez, a relative. The crying 6-year-old was removed at gunpoint to be returned with his father to Cuba.
Score one in the major victory column for Craig.
Craig was an aide at the side of Sen. Ted Kennedy when the Massachusetts lawmaker probed alleged abuses committed by the Contra rebels fighting the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
Craig, Bill Clinton’s impeachment lawyer, who has also served such clients as would-be Reagan assassinator John Hinckley and accused rapist William Kennedy Smith, is not marching to his desk near the Oval Office without protest.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton recently lashed out: “Not only did Greg Craig defend the worst of the worst of the Clinton scandals but he also defended the violent government raid that delivered Elian Gonzalez back to Castro’s Cuba. In fact, we believe that Greg was working with communist Cuban government during the Elian affair. Greg Craig is the wrong lawyer to serve as White House Counsel in the Obama White House.”
Obama Pick of Craig Worries Cuban-Americans
Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:16 PM By: Dave Eberhart
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/craig_cuban_americans/2008/11/20/153605.html
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton today called “disturbing” President-Elect Barack Obama’s decision to hire Clinton impeachment lawyer Greg Craig as White House Counsel.
“It is disturbing that Barack Obama will allow Bill Clinton’s impeachment lawyer Greg Craig to serve as his White House Counsel,” Fitton said in a press release. “Many thought Barack Obama had beaten the Clinton political machine. Instead, he appears to have embraced it.
“Not only did Greg Craig defend the worst of the worst of the Clinton scandals but he also defended the violent government raid that delivered Elian Gonzalez back to Castro’s Cuba,” Fitton charged.
Judicial Watch Blasts Obama Pick for WH
Counsel
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:49 AM By: Dave Eberhart
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/Judicial_Watch_Craig/2008/11/18/152536.html
