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Gorelick was the Clinton administration's deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, who repeatedly urged the White House not to attack bin Laden after the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in East Africa.

Right. Gorelick and her ilk is a large part of the problem and yet she is on this commission investigating 9/11? Its an outrage. And why are no Republican elected officials expressing outrage over the members of this commission?

And why are no Republican elected officials expressing outrage over the members of this commission?

There was a feeble attempt, but the dems were successful in framing it as a 9/11 cover-up attempt by the admin.

You know how it works.......... They are still doing it by constant requests to make classified docs public and to make Condi appear in public so that they could try to take some of the shine of the admin.

they have, unfortunately, been somewhat successfully. But, it is early in the election cycle.

i expect the next whammy to occur when the report is released and the interim leaks in between.

This definitely is not going away.

Jamie Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Prior to joining Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in July 2003, Gorelick was vice chair of Fannie Mae. As part of the four-person Office of the Chairman, she shared responsibility for overall management of the company, directed its efforts to reach underserved markets and oversaw Fannie Mae's external relationships, legal and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Fannie Mae in May 1997, Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States, a position she assumed in March 1994. From May 1993 until she joined the Justice Department, Gorelick served as general counsel of the Department of Defense. From 1979 to 1980 she was assistant to the secretary and counselor to the deputy secretary of energy. In the private sector, from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1993, Gorelick was a litigator in Washington, D.C., representing major U.S. companies on a broad range of legal and business matters. 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(the second-largest oil services firm after Halliburton, which is also doing business with Iraq through subsidiaries - Halliburton's chief rival), 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.

April 24, 1996

Web posted at: 4:00 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton signed legislation Wednesday that "strikes a mighty blow" against terrorism, giving the government many of the anti-terrorist powers he proposed a year ago after the Oklahoma City bombing. The law makes it easier for the United States to deport non-citizens suspected of terrorism links and bans fund-raising in the U.S. by terrorist groups(I guess they forgot to tell the terrorists).

The signing comes one day after Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick revealed that the government was flooded with terrorist threats last Friday on the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. "I literally could not leave my desk because of all the threats that were pouring in, in the course of that day," she said. A number of federal buildings were closed or evacuated, she said.

Jamie Gorelick, once considered for the CIA job.

Mrs. Gorelick added that even though President Clinton doubled the size of the FBI's counterterrorism budget, the bureau was so slow to hire agents that the money was never used.

"Keeping America Secure for the 21st Century"

Remarks by National Security Advisor Sandy Berger; Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate; and Jamie Gorelick, Fannie Mae Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Washington. D.C., January 22, 1999

MS. GORELICK: Mr. President, distinguished guests. Ten years ago I would not have put cyber terrorism at the top of the threats to our national security. But the landscape has changed. Given how well-armed we are, as Josh said, as a nation, but how reliant we are on computers in our everyday business and private lives, our nation's cyber systems become a tremendous target.

I believe that cyberspace is the next battlefield for this nation.