Edward O'Callaghan quits "War on Terror" to 'Save Sarah'

[MinM]

Thus putting the lie to both, the "War on Terror", and Sarah 'holdmeaccountable' Palin:

Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?
A McCain lawyer scrambles to block a Palin ethics inquiry.

A former top Justice Department prosecutor now working for John McCain's presidential campaign has been helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The growing role of Edward O'Callaghan, who until six weeks ago served as co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. attorney's office in New York, illustrates just how seriously the McCain campaign is taking the so-called "troopergate" inquiry into Palin's firing last summer of Walt Monegan, Alaska's Public Safety Commissioner.

O'Callaghan emerged publicly for the first time this week when he told reporters at a McCain campaign press conference, in Anchorage, that Palin is "unlikely to cooperate" with an Alaskan legislative inquiry into Monegan's firing because it had been "tainted" by politics. That new stand appeared to directly contradict a previous vow, expressed by her official gubernatorial spokesman on July 28, that Palin "will fully cooperate" with an investigation into the matter.

But O'Callaghan (who resigned from the U.S. attorney's office at the end of July to join the McCain campaign) is doing more than just public relations when it comes to "troopergate." He told NEWSWEEK that he and another McCain campaign lawyer (whom he declined to identify) are serving as legal "consultants" to Thomas Van Flein, the Anchorage lawyer who at state expense is representing Palin and her office in the inquiry. "We are advising Thomas Van Flein on this matter to the extent that it impacts on the national campaign," he said. "I'm helping out on legal strategy."...

Shades of the 2000 Election Recount

[thecrow]

1. "tainted" by politics.....?

That would be McGramps' politics, no doubt.

[autorank]

2. This is the guy who tried to get forced medication for Susan Lindauer

He's a mugger, without any doubt.

[MinM]

3. Thanks, autorank

Sure seems to fit with how these thugs operate.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Prior to leaving to attend the Olympics the DECIDER issued another EO

"A new Bush executive order (EO) includes an old waiver that allows human subject protections to be waived or modified by intelligence agency directors in complete secrecy.."

from Cheryl Welsh's article (Mind Justice August 2008)

"Nonconsensual experiments are unconstitutional but recent changes in law allow just that"
http://www.mindjustice.org/unconstitutional.htm

on edit: related Octafish thread started 7-1-2007

"Know your BFEE: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ford Covered Up CIA Murder of American Scientist"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1224071

[MinM]

5. Punk'd

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/218957.php

CNN punk'd on Palin probe? Check out this piece on her decision to cooperate with the investigation (i.e., the sham one she set up after McCain helped her shut down the real one.)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/22/palin.investigation/index.html

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-Palin-Punk-CNN-or-Are-by-Rob-Kall-080923-315.html