Friday, June 04, 2004
Plame affair: Bush's mouthpiece is an old, old friend of ours
Yes, from way back in the '80s!
Yes, I would say Sharp's profile is very likely kept low for very good reasons...
UPDATE Alert reader Californian says read this, and alert reader Beth says read this. They're right. Man, it's like any rock you lift with these guys has stuff crawling under it. And alert reader raison de femme writes (though with no link):
Ugly, ugly, ugly. I don't understand why Bush, a good family man, would even consider hiring a lawyer accused of suborning perjury. Curiouser and curiouser.
[Jim] Sharp, a low-profile lawyer, was a member of the firm that represented Richard V. Secord in the Iran-contra affair, in which Reagan administration officials were accused [and guilty—Ed.] of arranging secret arms shipments to Nicaraguan rebels and to Iran.
(via WaPo)
Yes, I would say Sharp's profile is very likely kept low for very good reasons...
UPDATE Alert reader Californian says read this, and alert reader Beth says read this. They're right. Man, it's like any rock you lift with these guys has stuff crawling under it. And alert reader raison de femme writes (though with no link):
AMES E. SHARP ACCUSED OF SUBORNING PERJURY: The Progress Report did its own unofficial search in an effort to uncover more details about the lawyer for the president. A search of the DC Bar website lists a James E. Sharp as an active member. A search of court documents shows an attorney named James E. Sharp represented his "good friend" Joe Harry Pegg who was indicted as "one of several individuals who conspired to import marijuana into the United States in 1988 and 1989." During James E. Sharp's representation of Pegg, one of Pegg's alleged co-conspirators said Sharp "helped him concoct a false story to help exculpate Pegg."
Ugly, ugly, ugly. I don't understand why Bush, a good family man, would even consider hiring a lawyer accused of suborning perjury. Curiouser and curiouser.
