Ed O'Callaghan

Ed O'Callaghan

Ed O'Callaghan is a Republican lawyer, former co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, who resigned from the US Attorney's Office in July, 2008 to join John McCain's presidential campaign. One of three leaders of Sarah Palin's Alaska "truth squad," O'Callaghan has become the public face of Palin's legal pushback on "Troopergate."

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O'Callaghan co-leads what the Anchorage Daily News calls "a cadre of high-powered operatives" described by John McCain's campaign as a "truth squad" to field questions about and push back on attacks against vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. [http://www.adn.com/palin/story/529637.html Anchorage Daily News (September 18, 2008) "Campaign fields Palin questions"] ] (His two co-leaders are Karl Rove protegee Brian Jones and Washington lawyer Mark Paoletta.)

Paoletta, Jones, and O'Callaghan are "tasked specifically with responding to the sort of viral attacks that have been popping up about Palin’s background and record in Alaska...The public face for this pushback, though, will be woman Republican politicians, a 'truth squad' team designed to highlight attacks on Palin and draw sympathy to her side." [ [http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/13323 Yahoo News (Sep 10, 2008) "Palin team stocked with Bush veterans"] ] Paoletta and Jones are volunteers while O'Callaghan is on staff. [ [http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_campaign_stands_up_pali.php Atlantic (September 9, 2008) "McCain Campaign Stands Up Palin Truth-Squadding Team"] ]

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O'Callaghan was sent to Alaska to handle "legal issues that are affecting the political dynamic of the campaign," according to Taylor Griffin, a former Treasury Department official in the Bush administration. [ [http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing/?blockID=59776&feedID=27 Fox News (September 17, 2008) "McCain operatives flock to Alaska, head off embarrassing disclosures about Palin"] ] Newsweek describes O'Callaghan's role as "helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin." Working with Palin's attorney Thomas Van Flein, O'Callaghan worked to shut down an investigation by the Alaska Legislative Council, moving consideration of the matter to the Alaska Personnel Board, a group that is answerable to Governor Palin herself. After filing the ethics complaint with the Alaska Personnel Board, Van Flein and O'Callaghan then moved to have it dismissed on the grounds that there was no "probable cause" for an ethics inquiry. "There was no Ethics Act violation and there is no need to go forward with this," O'Callaghan told reporters. [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/159260 Newsweek (September 16, 2008) "Can He Stop Troopergate?"] ]

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