Can Janet Reno be far behind??? LOL
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From: Travis
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 05:52
Subject: She's b-a-a-a-c-k!! Jamie Gorelick as possible Obama AG
This would make albore as sec'y of state look like a gift from heaven.
From: Travis
Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008
Subject: She's b-a-a-a-c-k!! Jamie Gorelick as possible Obama AG
Israpundit
November 11, 2008
She's b-a-a-a-c-k!! Jamie Gorelick as possible Obama AG
Another Brick In 'The Wall'?
IBD Editorial
Jamie Gorelick at 9/11 Commission hearings
, November 11, 2008
Transition: Jamie Gorelick may be back, this time as attorney general.
It was her "wall of separation" that that left us blind pre-9/11. And let's not
forget her admirable service at Fannie Mae.
Not many people can claim to have been at the center of arguably the
greatest financial disaster and greatest national security disaster in American
history. But Gorelick, said to be on the short list for attorney general by the
New York Times, can. Surely that qualifies her for further government service.
Gorelick earned an estimated $26 million serving as vice chair of Fannie
Mae from 1998 to 2003. In 1998, according to the Washington Post , Gorelick
received a bonus of $779,625, despite a scandal in which employees falsified
signatures on accounting transactions to manipulate books to meet 1998 earning
targets.
In 2003, she got a "Friends of Angelo" sweetheart mortgage deal from
Countrywide Financial for almost $1 million. Her $960,000 mortgage refinancing
in 2003 was handled through a program reserved for influential figures and
friends of Countrywide's chief executive at the time, Angelo Mozilo.
Countrywide's loans on preferential terms to influential figures are the
subject of a federal grand jury investigation in Los Angeles, according to
people involved in the inquiry. So Gorelick is in fact under investigation by
the department she might soon be running.
On March 25, 2002, BusinessWeek quoted Gorelick as saying: "We believe we
are managed safely. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality
institutions." One year later, government regulators accused Fannie Mae of
improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses. This keen
financial oversight set the stage for the financial meltdown to follow.
Before Fannie Mae, Gorelick was deputy attorney general in the Clinton
Justice Department and architect of the policy that established a wall between
intelligence and law enforcement, making "connecting the dots" before 9/11 a
virtual impossibility.
Gorelick was the author of a 1995 memo that helped establish what former
Attorney General John Ashcroft testified was the "single greatest structural
cause" for Sept. 11, which was "the wall that segregated criminal investigators
and intelligence agents."
"Government erected this wall," Ashcroft said. "Government buttressed
this wall. And before Sept. 11, government was blinded by this wall."
Gorelick later was a member of the 9/11 Commission, a participant in the
very events being investigated. At the commission hearings, she pummeled
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, not with questions but with accusations of
malfeasance, asking Rice why her office failed to "connect the dots."
Gorelick made the accusations knowing that she herself issued the memo
ordering the FBI to erect a legal wall between itself and the CIA, preventing
them from sharing information, making it impossible to collect the dots, much
less connect them. She should have been a witness, not a panel member.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who in 1998 brought an indictment
against bin Laden and a deputy, Mohammed Atef, for the bombings of the U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, wrote two scathing memos to Attorney General
Janet Reno on the wall Gorelick built with Reno's approval.
On June 13, 1995, White wrote Reno: "The most effective way to combat
terrorism is with as few labels and walls as possible so that whenever
permissible, the right and left hands are communicating."
According to a New York Post report, White was so upset after Reno and
Gorelick refused to tear down Gorelick's wall barring information-sharing
between intelligence and law enforcement that she wrote a second, still-secret
memo, saying their wall hindered law enforcement and could cost lives.
In this time of financial crisis and war on terror, it would be more than
a little ironic if an old Clinton crony, someone who played a detrimental role
in both, would be rewarded again with a key role in government. Maybe it's true
that the more things "change" the more they remain the same.
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