Meet President-elect Obama's White House Counsel: Gregory B. Craig

Greg Craig has been appointed White Counsel as of November 15th, but how much do we know about him. Here' the run down on his resume:

* In 1977, he represented the first FBI agent ever to be indicted, John J. Kearney, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering, and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Bill Ayers co-founded Weatherman (organization).

* That same year, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented the former CIA Director and Phoenix Program administrator, Richard Helms, who was under grand jury investigation for perjury in his 1973 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, concerning the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, and the role the United States played in it.

* Defended John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate President Reagan. Backed by overwhelming psychiatric opinion, he led Hinckley's successful insanity defense.

* In 1983 to 1984, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented Victor Posner who was charged with tax evasion in federal court in Miami.

* From 1984-1988 served as Senator Ted Kennedy's Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy, and National Security.

* As Senator Ted Kennedy's chief foreign policy adviser was responsible for orchestrating a hearing alleging the Contras of human rights abuses. As it turned out all of the witnesses turned to be Sandinista shills.

* In 2000, while serving as the lawyer for Elian Gonzalez's father, Craig did the bidding of the Castro regime by killing an agreement "to transfer custody of Elian to his father, as long as [Elian's family from Miami] could live with the boy and his father in an environment free of U.S. and Cuban officials."

* Since then, Craig has represented foreign officials accused of war crimes such as former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez-Berzaín and Pedro Miguel González, the president of Panama's legislature, who is under federal indictment for the murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernández Laporte.

* Domestically he is most famous for quartebacking the defense of President Clinton during his impeachment.

Considering his past it makes you wonder what will Mr. Craig bring to the fore as White House Counsel. Will he, for instance, go after Bush Administration officials or CIA officers for their actions in dealing with detainees to prevent future terrorist attacks?, or will he not? Considering the recent news of Obama's other appointees I tend to think not. They are an impressive group that I have no problem with as far as their ideology goes.