Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Bush And Kenny Boy Sharing The Same Lawyer???
Thanks to BeatBushBlog for digging up this golden nugget.
First, from Kenny Boy's interview on Larry King Live:
KING: Who's your -- who's the main lawyer?
LAY: Mike Ramsey, as far as the activities...
KING: He's criminal...
LAY: ... here in Houston. He's criminal. He's here in Houston. But we have a whole team -- Earl Silbert in Washington, D.C...
KING: You have Earl?
LAY: We have him. And...
KING: Former prosecutor.
LAY: Former U.S. prosecutor for over 20 years. Jim Sharp, former assistant U.S. prosecutor for a long time. We have Carrington, Coleman in Dallas, which has some excellent lawyers on the civil side. So, we have a number of really key advisers here that are involved. [Emphasis added.]
Which Jim Sharp are we talking about?
A nationwide search in "Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory" gives only five James Sharps or Jim Sharps. It appears that the one Lay hired is James E. Sharp of "Sharp and Associates" in Washington, D.C. A March 6, 2004 article by Kéllia Ramares in Online Journal noted that the "James Sharp" in Washington, D.C. had previously worked for Lay.
Dubya also hired the same James Sharp as his personal attorney after the investigation into who "outed" Valerie Plame as a CIA operative heated up. As John Dean of Watergate fame noted, it was necessary for Bush to hire an outside attorney to ensure that their conversations were protected by attorney-client privilege. If Bush had talked to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales instead, the prosecutor might have been able to subpoena Gonzales and compel him to testify about his conversations with Bush. At the time, Josh Marshall noted that Sharp is:
a Washington attorney who also represented Iran-Contra luminary Richard V. Secord.
That may prove convenient since the case will quite possibly involve some of the players from the old days.
Too friggin' perfect...
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