White House counsel departs

Breaking news according to The Washington Post.

News Alert
11:19 PM EST Thursday, November 12, 2009

White House Counsel Craig to end embattled tenure

White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig is expected to announce his departure as early as Friday, people familiar with the situation said, ending an embattled tenure in which he struggled to lead the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

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The Post story the next day explains how inside the beltway this really is.

I used TweetVolume to try different phrasing.

Craig departs seemed to work the best. It was only 27 twitter messages on the first search and 38 all told, however.

No messages after the 13th.

November 15, 2009 it is time to retire the search.

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: craig depart.txt