Globe Editorial: Smeared by Ginsberg (the Smoking Gun)

[kskiska]

BENJAMIN L. Ginsberg is the smoking gun. As national counsel to Bush-Cheney for five years, he has operated continuously at the center of President Bush's political organization. He was James Baker's right-hand man during the 2000 Florida recount challenge.

When Ginsberg aided the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's untruthful, scurrilous attacks on Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record, he established a strong and obvious connection between the president's campaign and the smear.

Ginsberg is right, of course, in saying lawyers represent all kinds of legally unconnected clients. But his suggestion that there is no political connection in this case is persiflage.

Here we have a group of bitter veterans who detest Kerry's leadership in opposing the war 30 years ago and are willing to say almost anything -- frequently contradicting their own earlier statements -- to hurt Kerry's candidacy. They turn to Bush's top political lawyer for advice on campaign finance laws and then to one of Bush's top campaign contributors to fund their attack ads.

No memo trail needs to be found linking Bush personally to Ginsberg and the veterans' group; the connection is apparent.

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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/08/27/smeared_by_ginsberg/

[MrBenchley]

1. Apropos of this

worth noting that Ginsburg admitted to TWO DC Bar Association ethics infractions during his NY Times interview....he's not allowed to take on a client without discussing the billing arrangements and he's not allowed to do pro-bono work for any client who has half a million bucks to piss away on television advertising...

(scroll down for details, including the relevant parts of the Code of Ethics)...

http://kmarx.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_kmarx_archive.html#109358572461744727

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Ginsberg is, to put it delicately, a goniff. . .

I could use other epithets, but they're not fit to be mentioned here.

:nuke:

[MurrayDelph]

3. Though the terms are not mutually exclusive,

I think it is more accurate to call him a Shyster; the whole administration are Gonifs (gonifim?).