Ted Olson: Getting Out Ahead of the Storm

[priller]

From Salon.com:

Olson said he "loved everything" about his job as the Bush administration's top legal advocate, but the rumblings from Washington suggest otherwise. The Washington Post reports that Olson was "known inside the Justice Department to be unhappy that he was not informed about controversial memos authored by the Office of Legal Counsel on the use of harsh interrogation methods on detainees overseas." The head of that office, Jack L. Goldsmith III, announced his resignation last week.

By announcing his own departure Thursday, Olson may be hoping to head off suggestions that he resigned as a result of unfavorable Supreme Court rulings related to the torture issue. The Supreme Court will likely issue its decisions next week in cases involving "enemy combatants" Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi and the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. Justice Department lawyers are braced for what Newsweek calls a "crushing defeat" in those cases, so much so that they're scrambling to find alternative theories for keeping Padilla in prison.

Olson seemed to acknowledge, albeit obliquely, that he was getting out ahead of the storm. He told the Post he wanted to announce his resignation before the court issues its final decisions of the term because it's "going to be a big deal next week."

[progressivebydesign]

1. Hmmm... I still thought he did this to help steal the next election.. N/T

[Fovea]

2. Run Orestes Run!

Surely you can out run the furies if you try.

Or maybe not. Ted is not going to get out of the 100% destruction zone
without changing his name, face, and fingerprints.

[sallyseven]

3. Maybe something to do with the Plame

indictment? Was he involved with letting the info out? He is not a nice guy you know he is a right winger. Nasty as his wife was.

[Fovea]

6. He cant represent * and Cheney

if he is still a gubmint lawyer.

[Warpy]

4. I think Scaife has read the writing on the wall

concerning his disaster in the White House, and is gearing up another team of "elves" to assassinate Kerry's character and hound his through his term(s). Olson is the logical choice to head up a new Scaife team.

[KoKo]

5. Yep, Olson won't go "gracefully" into the night. He's being put in charge

of something else they have in the works. He's a very nasty character and part of the innermost circle of thugs who've been around for awhile.

There's no way he's resigning because of "unhappiness" over memos. He knew about the memo's for sure because he knows ALL...

God, something very dirty is going to be coming down the pike for us. :scared:

[kentuck]

7. Taking a vacation before his nomination to the Supreme Court?

As soon as the Lady Justice steps down....:shrug: