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Giuliani Hits Back at Dems for Ted Olson Criticism
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ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani responded Friday to criticism that has been launched at one of his lead surrogates -- Ted Olson.
Olson, the former Solicitor General, is believed to be one of the leading candidates to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said earlier this week, "Ted Olson will not be confirmed. I intend to do everything I can to prevent him from being confirmed as the next attorney general."
Giuliani hit back during an interview on KSFO in San Francisco Friday.
"I think what the Democrats are doing to Ted Olson is another indication of how we’ve gotten to the point where partisanship trumps everything. Ted Olson just happens to be one of the very best lawyers in the United States of America. He also happens to be one of the finest people. I worked with Ted in the Justice Department. I used to consider him the conscience of the Justice Department. The man has enormous ethics. He served as Solicitor General of the United States recently in a totally non-partisan, bi-partisan way. Having Ted Olson as Attorney General wouldn’t just be good for Republicans, it would be good for Democrats, it would be good for all Americans," Giuliani said.
"He's been my friend since 1981. But beyond that, you know, I'm a lawyer. I've argued before the Supreme Court once -- he's argued before the Supreme Court 40 times. And he is just one of the best [lawyers] in the country, and I put in that category Republicans, Democrats, and Independents … He's a good man, a really, really good man. And a man who is not a partisan in the sense that when he has to do his job as a lawyer or he has to do his job as a government official, he knows how to separate those things. He believes passionately in the Republican Party, but my goodness, who is a Republican President going to appoint? Is he going to go appoint Democrats? I mean that doesn't make any sense. Every once in a while you do that, but that isn't generally what you do," he said.
September 14, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (1)
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If Olson had ethics or honor, he would not have been a member of the Bush administration.
Olson, if I recall correctly, is the person who argued to the USSC that the president has the right to murder (torture, kidnap, imprison, rape, whatever) people without any justification whatsoever so long as the US is at "war."
Which begs the question as to what legally constitutes war since Congress hasn't declared war on anyone in over fifty years.
But, given the fact Giuliani nominated his former NYC police chief to be head of "homeland security" even though he had known links to organized crime (aka "mafia"), Giuliani's recommendations aren't worth the paper they are written on.
Giuliani isn't fit to be president.
Posted by: tuckerndfw | Sep 14, 2007 1:30:17 PM
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