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Elian Lawyer backs Obama
Like rodents deserting a sinking ship, former Clinton intimates seem to be abandoning the the lumbering S.S. Hillary Clinton for the sleek new racing yacht Barack Obama. Following the trail blazed by former worshipful Clinton acolyte David Geffen — a lawyer once described by the National Review as "a high-powered D.C. lawyer, a Clinton intimate who led the president's impeachment defense, a silver-haired golden boy" — has fallen head over heels for Obama. According to legendary Washington columnist Bob Novak, Greg Craig, who he describes as a Washington super-lawyer with close ties to the Clintons, has thrown his support to Obama's presidential campaign. Confirming to Novak that Obama is his preferred candidate, Craig said that Obama is "unique," adding that "I've never seen anyone who has made the impact on people and on me." He explained that he was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, another intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons. Noting that Craig was a White House special counsel who defended President Clinton in his Senate impeachment trial, Novak goes on the report that Craig also served as an adviser to Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
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Novak, however, failed to mention Craig's most notorious role as a lawyer — his service as Juan Gonzalez's attorney in his fight to seize Juan's son Elian and take him back to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Elian had fled Castro's brutal police state in the arms of his mother, who drowned while trying to bring her son to freedom in the U.S. Castro pulled out all stops on his propaganda organ in an attempt to bring the boy back to Cuba — an effort bolstered by Craig. Two days before a terrified Elian was seized from his Miami family relatives by gun-waving federal agents who smashed in the door of his house and stuck a gun in his 6-year-old face, Craig told "Nightline" that "Elian is in an atmosphere that is psychologically abusive ... He is in imminent danger to his physical as well as emotional and mental health," a statement that accurately described what would soon happen to Elian, the National Review recalled. Wrote the National Review: "Within hours of the event, a credulous Craig was telling reporters that Elian wasn't "in any way terrorized, frightened, traumatized, or otherwise troubled" by the experience.
In a post-seizure CNN interview, the National Review recalled that Craig described a "very warm moment" between the boy and Janet Reno's big lugs: "I must say, there was a very touching moment in the room when the INS agents — the six-foot-two guys came in, 250 pounds came in ... And they were saying goodbye, and they [were] saying how proud they had been to be able to reunite this family. © NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved. Editor's note:
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