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1996: Clinton Considered Jamie Gorelick for CIA Director
The Washington Post Archives | December 3, 1996 | John F. Harris

Posted on 04/15/2004 8:08:23 AM PDT by nwrep

WOMEN'S GROUPS SEEK ENTRY TO PRESIDENT'S INNER CIRCLE; GORELICK CONSIDERED FOR CIA

December 3, 1996

President Clinton faces a choice as he returns this week to the business of staffing his administration for a second term: He will either make history by appointing a woman to one of the top spots on his national security team, or risk sorely disappointing many of the very voters who provided his margin of victory in last month's election.

This ambivalence is playing itself out in the drama over whether Clinton will name U.N. Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright to be the first female secretary of state. While declining to make Albright's appointment a litmus test for Clinton, top women's advocates said they would regard it as a setback if Clinton does not name a woman to one of several vacancies in top national security jobs that historically have been the province of white men.

"It would be a real blow, and it would be fairly blatant," given how Clinton ran as an advocate for women, said Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women. "Foreign policy is a place where women really do need to make some breakthroughs."

Besides Albright, the woman cited most frequently by administration officials as likely for a top national security job is Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, who is being considered for CIA director.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: DoctorMichael
How much more will be uncovered about the Clintoons?
21 posted on 04/15/2004 8:30:33 AM PDT by A. Morgan (3,000 Americans didn't survive the Clinton administration's incompetence, vileness, and corruption.)
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To: A. Morgan
I don't think I want to know anymore.
22 posted on 04/15/2004 8:30:59 AM PDT by iceskater (No nation or state ever taxed itself into prosperity.)
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To: redlipstick
Well, we dodged a bullet on that one!

It was close. I bet the only reason Gorelick didn't get the appointment was that Clinton didn't like her name!

Things were pretty loose with Ole Bill at the helm. Remember the dingbat at DOE who wanted to de-classify everything and opened up the National Labs to touring Chinese?

23 posted on 04/15/2004 8:34:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nwrep
Kindly include a link when you post this kind of stuff.
24 posted on 04/15/2004 8:34:56 AM PDT by expatguy (Fallujah Delenda Est!!)
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To: nwrep
"It would be a real blow, and it would be fairly blatant," given how Clinton ran as an advocate for women, said Patricia Ireland...

smirk...

25 posted on 04/15/2004 8:37:12 AM PDT by martin gibson
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To: Lucky2
Clinton is stupid.
His wife was setting up her Presidency for 2004, and she made it so he would be nailed if caught.

She never thought her fortunes would have changed so drastically.
26 posted on 04/15/2004 8:38:45 AM PDT by mabelkitty (A tuning, a Vote in the topic package to the starting US presidency election fight)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
It was close. I bet the only reason Gorelick didn't get the appointment was that Clinton didn't like her name!

The whole history of the world would have been changed if only her name were Clintonlick.

27 posted on 04/15/2004 8:38:47 AM PDT by EllaMinnow ("Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: iceskater
I think the only reason we survived the Clinton years is the prayers of faithful people.

I could not agree more! And it's a reminder that we need to keep praying, praying without ceasing.

28 posted on 04/15/2004 8:40:03 AM PDT by twigs
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To: nwrep
Well Gosh Golly Gee .. ain't this just special

All I have to say is Thank God George W. Bush is President

Can you just imagine of it was Gore in office?
29 posted on 04/15/2004 8:44:01 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: expatguy
I can't. This is from the archives.
30 posted on 04/15/2004 8:48:56 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: hchutch; nwrep
Well, another one of nwrep's golden oldies!!!! This is indeed frightening.

When people gripe about Tenet, let us ponder what might have been, if God had not spared us.

31 posted on 04/15/2004 8:48:58 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Mo1
Can you just imagine of it was Gore in office?

Can you imagine the box President Bush would have been in, if Gorelick was CIA director when he took office?

32 posted on 04/15/2004 8:50:08 AM PDT by woodyinscc
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To: woodyinscc
OMG. Don't even go there.
33 posted on 04/15/2004 8:52:13 AM PDT by iceskater (No nation or state ever taxed itself into prosperity.)
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To: hchutch
This is mind boggling! Why is she on the 9-11 Commission? She needs to remove herself immediately but then she is a RAT so they play by different rules!

Thanks for the ping!
34 posted on 04/15/2004 8:52:55 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: nwrep
Gorelick, who is being considered for CIA director.

Other candidates considered but rejected: Angela Davis for attorney general, Charles Manson for FBI director and Larry, Moe and Curly for Joint Chiefs of Staff.

35 posted on 04/15/2004 8:53:29 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: rod1
And we have Condi--what an incredible difference in competence.

Let's not get carried away.

36 posted on 04/15/2004 8:54:15 AM PDT by montag813 ("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: nwrep
OMG is right!

It boggles the mind, doesn't it???
37 posted on 04/15/2004 8:55:36 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: nwrep
I'm not sure if any of you have seen this web page titled: Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission:

Click Here

Regarding Gorelick, it claims that she had a close personal relationship with George Tenet. After his testimony on Wednesday, I observed Jamie Gorelick to be kibbutzing with Tenet off to the side of the hearing room. It's as if as soon as he finished, she high-tailed it out of her seat to catch up with him before he left the room. There's been too many personal TV appearances of these Commissioners, not to mention too many conflicts of interest. This will go down in history as just another expensive government-run fiasco.

38 posted on 04/15/2004 8:55:49 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: nwrep
Coming soon to a bookstore near you!!

 

Ms. Gorelick

Builds

Her

Dream Wall

 

Foreword by Osama bin Laden.
Afterword by Thomas Daschle.
Finalword by Hillary Clinton.

Critics are raving about the author's ability to maintain a truly palpable air of smiling lightheartedness, even after thousands of her fellow countrymen are killed.

Mystery lovers will be thrilled to learn if the main character will try to erase her fingerprints and those of her friends.


39 posted on 04/15/2004 8:56:45 AM PDT by syriacus (Cyberterror experts Clarke + Gorelick kept out terrorists who were disguised as electrons.)
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To: OldFriend
Problem is.......three thousand americans did not survive the previous administration's incompetence, vileness, and corruption.

Add 168 from Oklahoma City, 86 from Waco, etc.

40 posted on 04/15/2004 8:57:36 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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