{"id":397332,"date":"2019-02-26T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-insider-taken-down-a-peg-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:07:03","slug":"washington-insider-taken-down-a-peg-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-insider-taken-down-a-peg-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Insider Taken Down a Peg \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A quintessential DC insider is likely going to jail on a minor charge and it\u2019s good he\u2019s not getting away with it, says John Kiriakou.
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By John Kiriakou<\/a><\/span><\/b>
Special to Consortium News<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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The accusation that Craig violated FARA, or the Foreign Agent Registration Act, is not a big deal in the greater scheme of things. It means that he did some work for a foreign government and didn\u2019t fill out the necessary Justice Department paperwork for it. He also is accused<\/a> <\/u><\/span>of making false and misleading statements to the department\u2019s FARA unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

More importantly, it points to the impunity with which Washington big-shots normally operate. Manafort thought he was untouchable because he was the great Republican strategist, the legendary co-founder of Black, Manafort, and Stone, the most important Republican political operatives of the 1980s and 1990s. Craig is the same. He was Barack Obama\u2019s White House Counsel. And he\u2019s former Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s best friend. Like Manafort (and the Podestas and Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and a whole host of other big muckety mucks) he thought he was above the law. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dem\u2019s Fixer<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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