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Jaimie Gorelick (Some history for newer Freepers.)

For those who do not know, Jamie Gorelick was a Clinton era appointee who established a “wall” that prevented information from being shared between the CIA and the FBI. On F/R it was considered to have been done to insulate the Clintons from overseas intelligence that might be damaging to them. It did contribute to information regarding the 9-11 attach not being provided to the FBI. It was discussed at the time here on F/R extensively. (What the hell she is doing on this commission other than running interference and collecting a paycheck is beyond me!)

Wikipedia

“Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at WilmerHale since 2003 and has served on the board of directors of Amazon since February 2012.”

National Commission on Terrorist attacks on the United States

Snip “She served as president of the District of Columbia Bar from 1992 to 1993. Gorelick is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She also serves on several boards, including the Fannie Mae Foundation, United Technologies Corporation, Schlumberger, Limited, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard College Board of Overseers, America’s Promise, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and The National Park Foundation. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Gorelick co-chaired, with Senator Sam Nunn, the Advisory Committee of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, and currently serves on the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Security Advisory Panel as well as the President’s Review of Intelligence.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122230672551773977
“Countrywide made large, previously undisclosed home loans to two former Fannie Mae executives, raising potential conflict-of-interest issues.”

In true Democrat Fashion the Democrats placed her on the 9-11 commission board investigating the causes of 9-11.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/ag/testimony/2004/041304terrorismtestimony.htm

(Testimony of John Ascroft to the committee.)

“In 1995, the Justice Department embraced flawed legal reasoning, imposing a series of restrictions on the FBI that went beyond what the law required. The 1995 Guidelines and the procedures developed around them imposed draconian barriers to communications between the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The wall “effectively excluded” prosecutors from intelligence investigations. The wall left intelligence agents afraid to talk with criminal prosecutors or agents. In 1995, the Justice Department designed a system destined to fail.

In the days before September 11, the wall specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. After the FBI arrested Moussaoui, agents became suspicious of his interest in commercial aircraft and sought approval for a criminal warrant to search his computer. The warrant was rejected because FBI officials feared breaching the wall.

When the CIA finally told the FBI that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi were in the country in late August, agents in New York searched for the suspects. But because of the wall, FBI Headquarters refused to allow criminal investigators who knew the most about the most recent al Qaeda attack to join the hunt for the suspected terrorists.

At that time, a frustrated FBI investigator wrote Headquarters, quote, “Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain ‘problems’. Let’s hope the National Security Law Unit will stand behind their decision then, especially since the biggest threat to us, UBL, is getting the most protection.”

FBI Headquarters responded, quote: “We are all frustrated with this issue … These are the rules. NSLU does not make them up.”

But somebody did make these rules. Someone built this wall.

The basic architecture for the wall in the 1995 Guidelines was contained in a classified memorandum entitled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations.” The memorandum ordered FBI Director Louis Freeh and others, quote: “We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”

This memorandum established a wall separating the criminal and intelligence investigations following the 1993 World Trade Center attack, the largest international terrorism attack on American soil prior to September 11. Although you understand the debilitating impact of the wall, I cannot imagine that the Commission knew about this memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review. Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this Commission.” SNIP...

(If you did not pick up on it Ashcroft was referring to directly to Gorelick who was sitting right there on the commission looking at him.)

This woman is responsible for 3000 lives on 9-11 and seems to be an absolute self interested parasite who fattened her pocketbook leeching on the American Body Politic.

(I hope she has committed some prosecutable crime, but....WRAY FBI.)