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starroute

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4. That's pretty heavy-duty lawyering up

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 11:59 PM

Nov 2012

Abbe Lowell has defended everyone from John Edwards to Jack Abramoff.

Muse has a history that goes back to the Senate Watergate Committee (as a young staff lawyer when he was just out of law school) and Iran-Contra and includes any number of Independent Counsel investigations and espionage cases.

One wonders who's paying them.

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Petraeus hoped affair would stay secret and he could keep his job as CIA director [View all] Coyotl Nov 2012 OP

Man, talk about warped thinking. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #1

''...hoped affair would stay secret....'' DeSwiss Nov 2012 #2

If Petraeus had stayed as DCI Blue_Tires Nov 2012 #14

Doesn't everyone who cheats? liberal N proud Nov 2012 #3

Yep. LisaL Nov 2012 #8

That's pretty heavy-duty lawyering up starroute Nov 2012 #4

He was head of the CIA and he was thinking with his small head condoleeza Nov 2012 #5

OK, I'll say it for you. Jackpine Radical Nov 2012 #6

Hello, none of us do. Some of us just aren't in denial about it... olddad56 Nov 2012 #9

And trust me, Mr.Bill Nov 2012 #7

It is okay to hate individual men .............. Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #10

Neocon think. Kingofalldems Nov 2012 #11

That's generally the thought behind an affair 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #12

If the Director of the CIA can't keep an affair secret... ThoughtCriminal Nov 2012 #13

That right there could solve our deficit problem. n/t appal_jack Nov 2012 #15