Obama Appoints Leftist NYTimes Lawyer to General Counsel of the Army

Obama appointed Solomon B. Watson, former counsel for the NY Times, to be general counsel of the Army. The Weekly Standard reminds us:

Near the end of Mr. Watson’s tenure, the paper published a series of stories compromising two highly classified counterterrorism programs. One, in December 2005, offered crucial details of the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, designed to track al Qaeda communications into and out of the United States. Another, in June 2006, disclosed a secret program designed to track the movement of terrorist funds through the Belgian financial clearinghouse known as SWIFT. Top officials in the government, and leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress, bemoaned the serious damage to national security that the paper had inflicted.

During hearings, Watson dodged and ducked questions about his role in the affair, ultimately giving five different excuses.

What can one conclude from all this? If artful dodging of responsibility is a prerequisite for the slot, Mr. Watson will be one of the greatest Army general counsels of all time.