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...taken on politically unpopular causes over the years, including representing Elián González's father in his effort to return his son to Cuba. Craig helped defend his law-school classmate Bill Clinton against impeachment, but he broke from the Clintons in 2007 to back Obama and became a key player in his meteoric rise to the presidency...
...Bush's legacy in the war on terrorism was being rolled back even faster in the courts, and soon Obama and Craig found themselves not rallying reformers but playing defense against the American Civil Liberties Union, which had sued the government under Bush in search of mountains of data and documents. The courts had ordered Bush to release classified Department of Justice memos that detailed and endorsed the use of harsh tactics like sleep deprivation in the CIA's interrogation of suspects. On March 15, Craig informed Obama that, faced with a court deadline, the Justice Department planned to make...
...April 24, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell launched three weeks of near daily attacks on the idea of letting the Uighurs loose in the U.S. Dick Durbin, Obama's mentor and the Democrats' No. 2 in the Senate, called the White House asking for ammunition to fight back against McConnell and the Republicans. "What's our plan?" Durbin asked. (Read "Debating the Torture Memos...
...find ways to deter piracy without running the risk of starting a shooting war, but the quest for a reliable non-lethal means of curbing piracy remains elusive. On Wednesday, the pirates "fired upon the ship, and the embarked security team responded with warning shots, and the pirates fired back, and the embarked security team fired back - and there was no piracy event," Gortney said. All aboard the cargo ship were reported safe; it was not known if the pirates suffered casualties...
...Back in the U.S., the President's many political foes leaped on the gesture as a symbol of submission. "It's not appropriate," chided conservative pundit William Kristol on Fox News. "A spineless blunder," blared the online firebrand Michelle Malkin. But neither the President nor his aides paid much mind. "He doesn't spend a lot of time reading right-wing blogs," explained Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary. (See pictures of Obama's trip to Asia...