Man Overboard

Another Vietnam casuality, thanks to the Swifties:

One of President Bush's top lawyers resigned from his campaign Wednesday, a day after disclosing that he had given legal advice to a veterans group airing TV ads against Democrat John Kerry. The guidance included checking ad scripts, the group said.

"This part of the script that says you guys are Republican fronts for the Bush campaign, and make statements he can't afford to politically say, you need to edit that out. Other than that, lie all you want."

"I have decided to resign as national counsel to your campaign to ensure that the giving of legal advice to decorated military veterans, which was entirely within the boundaries of the law, doesn't distract from the real issues upon which you and the country should be focusing," Ginsberg wrote.

Yes, those real issues like when exactly was John Kerry in Cambodia, and how many drops of blood came out of his leg when the shrapnel blast was embedded in there?
*UPDATE*
It's becoming a Josh Marshall link fest as he points out more from a Reuters article:

Now we're on to former Bush-Cheney 2004 lawyer Ben Ginsberg's quote to Reuters: "I was at the nexus of making sure (coordination) didn't happen. To suggest otherwise is flat wrong."

So BC04 is so hardcore against coordination that they had Ginsberg work for the Swift Boat guys to prevent coordination. Or something like that. Anyway, he was at the heart of the battle against coordination.