White House had the best Lawyers money could buy

[formercia]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900833.html

Top Air Force Lawyer Had Been Disbarred

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 10, 2006; Page A22

A top Air Force lawyer who served at the White House and in a senior position in Iraq turns out to have been practicing law for 23 years without a license.

Col. Michael D. Murphy was most recently commander of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in the District.

He was the general counsel for the White House Military Office from December 2001 to January 2003, and from August 2003 to January 2005. In between those tours, he was the legal adviser to the reconstruction effort in Iraq, an Air Force spokesman said.

Murphy later served in 2005 as commandant of the Air Force Judge Advocate General's School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala.

[babylonsister]

1. Damn! Now that was a thorough job of doing a background check.

:eyes: :wtf:

[elehhhhna]

7. The US Office of Personnel Management, which performs b/g & security-clearance checks, is

outsourced to a Company which is OWNED by The Carlyle Group. Has been for years -- true fact.

Why our USOPM is contracted out to a private company owned by Saudis, Bushes, Dubai, and GOD KNOWS WHO ELSE is beyond me. Looks like a conflict of interest and more self-dealing from the MBA Prezzydent.

[rodeodance]

2. background checks are the achiells heel for so many.

......He was relieved of his command at Bolling on Nov. 30 after the Air Force learned that he had been disbarred for professional misconduct in Texas in 1984 but hadn't informed his superiors, according to Air Force Times, an independent newspaper that first reported the action. It said that his status was discovered in the course of an unrelated review.

[formercia]

5. details, details

Bush Gang likes people like this because they are so easily co-opted.

[hootinholler]

3. Speechless. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. He did a Heckuva job though I'll bet!

Did he know anything about breeding horses?

[NNN0LHI]

6. Bush doesn't keep anyone around without a fatal flaw

That way he can keep them submissive to his wants. If they don't play ball he just "leaks" the embarrassing information. I wonder what he has on pickles? Dead boyfriend maybe?

Don

[Geoff R. Casavant]

8. And once again the Navy is ahead of the curve.

We have to send proof of our good standing every year.

But of course in the knee-jerk reaction to this bozo, I expect we'll be asked to do it monthly now.