Michelle Bernard Rushes To Defend Obama Staffer who Allegedly Patronized Hooker

Michelle Bernard Rushes to Defend Obama Staffer Who Allegedly Patronized Hooker (NewsBusters)

MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard wasted no time on Thursday's edition of Hardball defending former White House volunteer Jonathan Dach -- now employed at the State Department in the Office on Global Women's Issues -- from charges that he patronized a prostitute while on official business as an Obama advance man in Cartagena, Colombia. 

"I am clearly, you know, a victims' rights advocate. But the evidence here is not clear that this guy did anything wrong," Bernard, who holds a J.D. from Georgetown insisted, sympathizing for how he would not want to "testify, and lie about this and risk being disbarred over having a prostitute in his bedroom in a country where it's legal."

Besides, she added, Dach "wasn't on staff. He was a volunteer."