October 10, 2009


Craig Insists He's Staying in White House Post

In an interview with the National Law Journal, White House counsel Gregory Craig said "that he does not intend to resign his position and he pushed back against criticism of his role in the Obama administration's plan to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

Said Craig: "I have no plans to leave whatsoever. The rumors that I'm about to leave are false. The reports that I'm about to leave are wrong. I have no plans to leave."

"Craig, a fixture of Washington's legal and political establishments for decades, has faced a drumbeat of news reports since August that he is on his way out as President Barack Obama's top in-house lawyer. His dismissal of those reports is his first public comment on the matter, though he repeatedly declined to elaborate. Later in the interview, he described his relationship with Obama as 'excellent.'"


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