Posted on 09/10/2011 9:03:48 AM PDT by doug from upland
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/jamie-gorelick-mistress-of-disaster.html
It's not often that one person plays key roles in two -- count 'em, two -- trillion-dollar disasters. Welcome, my friends, to the world of well-connected Democrat Jamie Gorelick.
In 2004, observers were "astonished" to discover that a key member of the 9/11 Commission had a fatal conflict-of-interest. Jamie Gorelick had served as a Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.
It was later revealed that Gorelick had established a pre-Patriot Act "wall" that prevented the foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating.
Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations", stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."
The result: shortly before 9/11, Gorelick's wall "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui", the so-called "20th hijacker."
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a memo to headquarters which included the sentence, 'Whatever has happened to this -- someday someone will die -- and wall or not -- the public will not understand why we were not more effective..."
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
The only one running is Ron Paul. He may be Founding Father material, but even the average Freeper thinks he's a kook. It would take a miracle to get someone like him elected.
“I found the interview by doing a search for Cspan and clicking on the Washington Journal link. The next choice is a Michael Scheuer video link. It is about 45 minutes.”
Thank you. This is the url:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Washington-Journal-for-Saturday-September-10/10737424030/
If I find a transcript later, I will ping you.
I’m currently reading “Reckless Endangerment” by Morgenson and Rosner. It seems like the authors are making ex-Fannie Mae head James Johnson out to be the biggest ogre in the housing/financial disaster. I haven’t gotten to Gorelick’s role in the fiasco yet.
bttt
Gorelick should be in PRISON TWICE!! Once for this nd with Franklin Raines re: Fannie Mae and the MILLIONS they took in BONUSES while they cooked the books!!
And for the 9/11 commission.
The woman gets around. Wonder how.
I talked to Ron Paul on the phone on a talk station the day before the Iowa Caucuses in the last presidential election cycle. After giving him kudos for defending the Constitution, I asked a foreign policy question. If N. Korea was sending a ship to Iran with nuclear tipped missiles, would he board and seize or sink it. His answer told me all I needed to know. He said, paraphrasing, “Why would we do that. It’s not our business.”
No, Sarah Palin is.
Good to hear.
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