Jeff Toobin was a junior lawyer on Lawrence Walsh’s staff and he parleyed that into being a “commentator” on liberal cable networks. Had he served on Kenneth Starr’s staff, Toobin would have been barred for life from appearing as a “commenator” on liberal televison networks. But because he worked as a junior lawyer on Lawrence Walsh’s staff and Walsh’s special prosecution team was devoted to destroying the Reagan administration, Toobin was considered a hero and authentic “good guy”. In his role on the Walsh team, Toobin and his colleagues devoted themselves to trying to send Caspar Weinberger to prison (never mind that Weinberger was well into his 70s at the time), trying to destroy Oliver North and even his secretary (a 25 year old rookie secretary) and desperately spending years finding something to indict Elliot Abrams for. Walsh’s record in court was abysmal. Yet the high point for the Walsh team (and likely for Toobin as well) was when Walsh dragooned former President Reagan (well into his 80s) into Court and then crossexamined him on ancient dates and times so that they could make President Reagan (who was in the eary stages of Alzheimer’s disease) look like a fool. It was no accident that the crossexamination was taped and fed to the MSM.
And for his reward for being a Lawrence Walsh foot soldier, Toobin was given CNN.

Larraby on October 3, 2007 at 10:52 AM