copyright 2009, The Washington Post WASHINGTON -- White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, commenting last week on the long-expected resignation of White House Counsel Greg Craig, told reporters that Craig never wanted to be an administration lawyer. 'Greg is, as you know, somebody who served in a previous administration in foreign policy. That's his passion,' Gibbs said. He called Craig a 'reluctant acceptor' of the counsel position. So why didn't he land a foreign policy job? we wondered. And why can't he get one now? Oh, yeah. Forgot about this item we wrote just after the election, the one about Craig's March 2008 hit memo on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, his law school classmate and longtime pal. After a passing shot at Clinton's 'failed effort' on health insurance, Craig, a senior State Department staffer during her husband's presidency, argued that her 'claims of foreign policy experience are exaggerated.' He then delivers a claim-by-claim rebuttal, from her helping to broker the peace in Northern Ireland -- 'gross exaggeration' -- to helping open Kosovo's borders, to urging President Bill Clinton to intervene in Rwanda, and so on, including that sniper-fire thing in Bosnia. In contrast, Obama, Craig wrote, 'does not use false charges and exaggerated claims to play politics with national security.' Whew. Brutal. Once Clinton was named secretary of state, a foreign policy job for Craig was not gonna happen. And you can bet she hasn't forgotten. 