Gorelick Caught In Lie - Gorelick Says She Did Not Author or Sign the "WALL" Memo

World Net Daily ^ | April 14, 2004 | By Joe Kovacs

[joinedafterattack]

Gorelick Caught In Lie - Gorelick Claims She Did Not Author or Sign the Memo That Bears Her Name and Initials.
When asked specifically by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if she wrote the "memorandum in '95 that helped establish the so-called walls between the FBI and CIA," Gorelick distanced herself from the matter:
"No, and again, I would refer you back to what others on the commission have said. The wall was a creature of statute. It's existed since the mid 1980s. And while it's too lengthy to go into, basically the policy that was put out in the mid-nineties, which I didn't sign, wasn't my policy by the way, it was the attorney general's policy, was ratified by Attorney General Ashcroft's deputy as well in August of 2001. So we are just going to move on from this. This is not a basis for resignation."

[BARLF]

Gorelick is a litigation partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering

Is this Lloyd Cutler as in Whitewater hearings?

[AndyJackson]

Eyup. You can check it out right here. http://www.wilmer.com/docs/subpage.cfm?SECTION=lawyers&PAGE=lawyer&ID=1

[BARLF]

Clark Clifford of the BCCI debacle:WSJ article.... October, 1994

Mr. Clifford was of course dean of the Washington establishment. Deputy Attorney Jamie Gorelick represented him in trying to get First American to pay his legal bills to his lead lawyers. These were Robert Fiske,one time Whitewater special counsel, and Robert Bennett, President Clinton's lawyer in the Paula Jones case.

[calcowgirl]

Is this Lloyd Cutler as in Whitewater hearings?

Yep!

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Company Profile (from Yahoo)

Law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (WCP) has been keeping our nation's capital supplied with lawyers since 1962. Among WCP's more than 500 attorneys is founding partner Lloyd Cutler, who has served as counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. (Founding partner John Pickering is also still with the firm.) WCP's practice areas range from antitrust to litigation to tax. The firm has extended its reach beyond Washington, DC, by establishing additional East Coast offices, as well as international offices in Berlin, Brussels, and London. In addition to Cutler and Pickering, WCP's founders include Dick Wilmer and J. Roger Wollenberg.

[nopardons]

bttt

[fightu4it]

Jamie Gorelick
Partner | Jamie.Gorelick@wilmer.com

Publications



Jamie Gorelick's career has spanned the legal, policy, and corporate landscape. Immediately before joining Wilmer, she was Vice Chair of Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of housing finance. There, she shared responsibility for the overall management of the company, with a special emphasis on affordable housing. She oversaw the legal, regulatory, and external affairs of the company.

Prior to her tenure at Fannie Mae, Ms. Gorelick served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. In that role, she supervised all of the litigating and law enforcement divisions of the Department, including all of the United States Attorneys Offices. She served as the chief operating officer of this complex and multi-faceted law enforcement agency with more than 100,000 people and a budget of more than $18 billion. At the conclusion of her tenure, she received the Department's highest award, the Edmund J. Randolph Award. Ms. Gorelick came to Justice from the Department of Defense, where she was General Counsel where she structured the Department's involvement in the consolidation of the defense industry in the 1990s. Her service to the Department was recognized with the award of the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. Earlier in her career, Ms. Gorelick was Vice Chair of the Task Force on the Audit, Inspection and Investigation Components of the Department of Defense, which led to the institution of an Inspector General there. She was also Assistant to the Secretary and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Gorelick has served on numerous government boards and commissions. Currently, she is a member of the national bipartisan commission investigating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and she has previously served on President Bush's Review of Intelligence, President Clinton's Advisory Committee to the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (which she co-chaired with Senator Sam Nunn) and the CIA's National Security Advisory Panel.

Practice
As one of Washington's best-known litigators, Ms. Gorelick has represented corporations and individuals on a wide array of problems, particularly in the regulatory and enforcement arenas. She has particular experience in corporate governance and compliance, as well as internal corporate investigations, having authored the leading treatise on document retention and management. Her leadership in the bar was recognized by her election as President of the District of Columbia Bar in 1992.

Ms. Gorelick has recently returned to the practice of law. During her previous period in private practice (from 1975 to 1993), she worked with many of the most significant corporations in America, including General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Teledyne and Aetna, as well as organizations like National Public Radio.

Ms. Gorelick's diverse experience and leadership positions in both the public and private sectors - combined with her direct experience in the corporate boardroom and in the international arena - make her uniquely qualified to represent large organizations operating in competitive and complex markets. Additionally, her experience provides her a unique perspective on the use of law enforcement to protect the financial markets and businesses in the US and abroad.

Professional Activities
Ms. Gorelick is the co-author of the leading treatise on the maintenance of corporate documents, Destruction of Evidence (Wiley 1983). She has taught trial advocacy at Harvard Law School and has given guest lectures at many universities.

She is a member of several boards, including United Technologies Corporation; Schlumberger, Limited; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless; the Harvard Board of Overseers; the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and the Supreme Court Fellows Commission.

[BARLF]

Thanks, I was fairly sure it was one and the same. This bunch of Clinton lovers are tightly bound.

In the two WSJ Whitewater books I have, I see more pages on Gore_Lick. Looks as if they are all on BCCI but will have to check.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Go to Vote.com and vote on the poll question: Should Gorelick resign from the 911 Commission? This witch is a Democrat "traitor"!

[calcowgirl]

WSJ - Letters to the Editor
Jul 15, 1994

Your editorials on BCCI suggest that, having represented Clark Clifford and Robert Altman while I was in private practice, I am now influencing the conduct of the Justice Department investigation into the BCCI matter ("Sweetheart Justice," July 1, and "Sweetheart Justice II," July 12). Were that suggestion true, it would constitute a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Justice Department rules on conflict of interest.

It is a matter of public record that I am recused from any matter in which I was involved in private practice, including this one. For the record, from the middle of 1992 until early 1993, I represented Messrs. Clifford and Altman with regard to their claims against First American Bank for indemnification from the criminal cases in any way and never dealt with the federal or state prosecutors. Contrary to a suggestion in one of your editorials, I have never even met or spoken with Robert Fiske. At the beginning of my tenure at the Justice Department, I recused myself from the entire BCCI matter, which is being handled by others within the department.

Jamie Gorelick
Deputy Attorney General
Washington

[wisconsinconservative]

bump for later

[MNJohnnie]

This memo again formalized the wall within the FBI and made clear how investigations were to be carried out. Gorelcik did NOT initiate this policy.

No, but as the memo clearly shows, she made the Wall a PRIORITY and even admits that she wanted the Wall to be observed BEYOND what was legally required. She is culpable, she does have a conflict and she MUST resign.
Any other course of action by the Comission indicates it is NOT intrested in a clear and open discussion of ALL the factors that lead to 9-11.

[MNJohnnie]

The party needs a major reform and the go along to get along RINO's must be purged.

I just pigend holed one of the Bush Leaders for my state and told her "The grassroots wants to know WHERE are the Congressional Republicans?"

[stocksthatgoup]

Can you say Chinagate??? What better way to spike the truth than prevent the FBI criminal and International areas from communicating with each other or the CIA?
The Clinton-China money trail was covered over.

[MNJohnnie]

That is what you think Gorlick. You must resign, and the whole Comittee is revealed as a farce

You are absolutely correct. I have stolden your line for today's email to the 9-11 Comission. I hope you do not mind?

[MNJohnnie]

An.American.Expatriate (A vote for JF'nK is a vote for Peace in our Time!)

Upon returning from Munich where British Prime Minster Neville Chamberlin sold out Checkoslavakia to Hitler, Upon returning to Britian, Chamberlin held up a wad of papers and and said that this document meant "Peace in our times". About 18 Months later Hitler invaded Poland and started WW2.

Kerry is the modern day Chamberlin. For all his claims about "staying the course" what Kerry is REALLY advocating is surrender to, and appeasement of, Islamic Terrorirism. Kerry is our Neville Chamberlin

[BARLF]

Contrary to a suggestion in one of your editorials, I have never even met or spoken with Robert Fiske.

There will have to be confirmation hearings for Mr Heymann's sucessor; the rumored designee is Pentagon counsel Jamie Gorelick, who shares with Mr.Fiske the distinction of having been one of Clark Clifford's lawyers in BCCI.

One would think if they shared client Clifford they would have had reason to talk.

BTW, seems Mr Heymann was pushed out as Deputy Attorney General to make way for Gore-Lick.

My guess....She ran the Justice Dept. Was meant for Hubbell to be the power house there for the Clintons. You know that story. Poor Webb.

[calcowgirl]

Here's the abstract from the subject editorial... I think you've already got the theme... but a few more players mentioned (e.g. Orrin Hatch)

Editorial): Sweetheart Justice
Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jul 1, 1994. pg. A.12

Abstract (Article Summary)

The dominant figure at Justice, now that Mr. Hubbell has resigned, is Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who as a private attorney was involved in BCCI affairs in representing Clark Clifford and Robert Altman, who ran Washington's First American Bank when it was illegally owned by BCCI. Her confirmation, despite such problems as no experience in law enforcement, was whisked through the Senate Judiciary Committee by Senator Orrin Hatch, who had been represented by one of her partners when he was cleared by the Senate Ethics Committee of impropriety in a Senate speech defending a previous BCCI settlement now understood as a wrist-slap.

Ms. Gorelick's part in the BCCI legal festivities was to try to get First American's trustee to pay legal bills for Mr. Clifford and Mr. Altman. That is, to collect money for Mr. Fiske and for present presidential lawyer Robert Bennett, both of whom also represented Mr. Clifford and Mr. Altman. One of Mr. Bennett's law partners, John Schmidt, was also recently appointed Associate Attorney General, the number three post at Justice. The BCCI case is directly handled by Gerald Stern, special counsel for financial institution fraud, who admittedly has no BCCI connection; his private experience was as general counsel to Armand Hammer's Occidental Petroleum.

[Jorge]

hmmmmm... are "INITIALS" actually a signature....... it depends on the meaning of "IS".....

You've got to be kidding.
Fire the liar!

[BARLF]

The second in command of BCCI was Swaleh Naqvi an Arab.

Wonder if the nine Billion dollars he made off with went to fund the terrorists that came back to kill Americans by the thousands?

We are in a world of hurt here and it is Clinton/Clinton Adm. that got us here. I think they planned it well.

[XBob]

157 - We are getting no where over an insignificant point, however, this is a MAJOR policy decision, and I see no standard references for any authority or direction at all in this format.

"It is not unsigned. There is a formal process for obtaining release authority for something like this, and believe me it would have been done. This was not just some flunky writing a memo and sending it around."

Ah, but that is what I see - a flunky, writing a memo, with no referenced authority, creating major policy changes which killed thousands of people and ruined our best lines of defense against terrorism.

I see no approvals from higher authority, citations of law, directions from higher authority, or anything, just a flunky memo.

And that's my point - where did she get the authority to do this? The format provides no standard for that, and apparently doesn't.

and "and believe me it would have been done" doesn't hack it. We had a bunch of incompetents running our government, and this is good evidence of it.