Greg Craig
As the Herald reported this morning, several members of Obama's new leadership team in Washington have strong enough ties to the Elian Gonzalez saga to send local Republicans into a tizzy.
The AP reports this afternoon that Obama is expected to make Eric Holder the first black attorney general. Holder, the son of a Barbados immigrant, was deputy attorney general during the raid that returned young Elian to Cuba.
Obama's top choice for White House legal counsel is reportedly Greg
Babalu Blog and its ilk haven't picked up on this, but we can already imagine their response: "That dirty socialist mainstream media is trying to pull one over on the Cubans by implying that this new attorney general isn't a godless prick who jumped for joy at the though of sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba."
As Riptide mentioned yesterday, Obama's likely nominee for AG, Eric Holder, was deputy AG during the Elian Gonzalez saga.
ABC News is reporting that after the infamous raid, Holder
