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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
KEYWORDS: cia; ciadirector; clinton; clintonistas; coaldetat; deplorables; feminatics; feminism; fresearchservice; gorelick; jamesriady; jamiegorelick; jamiesgorelick; madeleinealbright; madeleinekalbright; now; patriciaireland; quidprocoal; usattorney; women; x42
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:08:24 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: nwrep
OMG
To: Howlin; onyx
PING
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:09:14 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: Mo1
PING
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:10:04 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: nwrep
On the bright side, that would have taken some of the burden off Monica!
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:12:31 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: nwrep
Whoa--what a choice.
Gorelick for CIA; Albright for UN. With those how could you possibly go right? We were VERY lucky we survived those 8 years of Clinton.
And we have Condi--what an incredible difference in competence.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:12:51 AM PDT
by
rod1
(On the front line)
To: nwrep
Oh good grief. All though the Clinton years, I (and a lot of people I know, including many here on FR) said that Clinton was a danger to the country. I actually recall this particular item now that it's been brought up again, but I'd forgotten it--and I'm not sure I understood (at the time) just how bad an idea this was. If memory serves, I believe I thought it a looney idea--now I know it could have been lethal.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:15:54 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: nwrep; cyncooper
Well, we dodged a bullet on that one!
With Gorelick in charge of the CIA, we wouldn't have had 9/11 - because we'd all have been dead before 2001.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:16:09 AM PDT
by
EllaMinnow
("Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
To: rod1
Problem is.......three thousand americans did not survive the previous administration's incompetence, vileness, and corruption.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:16:21 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: nwrep
What th' &%$#!
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:16:25 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: nwrep
This just shows that hillary was in charge all along or clinton was ever more stupid than we thought. Either way, we must never allow people like the clintoons to be elected again... This is even more of a wake up call to re-elect President Bush. A john kerry administrataion would be a mirror image of the clintons with a new Monica!
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:16:50 AM PDT
by
Lucky2
( 2004 is the year the Yankees will win the World Series and GWB will be re-elected!)
To: nwrep
Well, he thought about getting a Gorelick, but later he determined that he needed his own lick. That's how Monica got the job....
To: nwrep
That's pronounced GORE-LICK!
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:17:15 AM PDT
by
snopercod
(When the people are ready, a master will appear.)
To: nwrep
".....top national security job is Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, who is being considered for CIA director."
This does make total sense. So maybe Gorelick was the stealth CIA director, wonder how many times she met with bill or hillry. Considering that bill never has time to meet with Tenet, could it be that Clarke and Gorelick met with Tenet and Clarke and Gorelick kept Hillry updated.
Could it be that the most brillant lawyer in the world was actually in charge of the CIA and DOJ?
To: nwrep
You are good!
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:19:03 AM PDT
by
HOYA97
(Hoya Saxa = What Rocks)
To: headsonpikes
"On the bright side, that would have taken some of the burden off Monica!"
I don't know maybe it was not bill the one being serviced?????
To: Squantos
You know I told my wife in '96 that we might not be able to survive 2 Clinton terms without serious damage to the nation. Imagine, it could have been EVEN WORSE.
To: nwrep; Poohbah; PhiKapMom; Miss Marple; veronica; section9; Dog; BOBTHENAILER
Whoa... this is just...
I mean... My brain needs to process this.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:27:07 AM PDT
by
hchutch
(Tommy Thompson's ephedra ban STINKS.)
To: nwrep
I think the only reason we survived the Clinton years is the prayers of faithful people.
It sure wasn't because Clinton was looking out for the safety and well-being of the country. And there are 3,000 dead people who really shouldn't have died.
Their blood is on his and Gorelick's hands.
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:29:37 AM PDT
by
iceskater
(No nation or state ever taxed itself into prosperity.)
To: hchutch
Get out the duct tape first, k?
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posted on
04/15/2004 8:30:09 AM PDT
by
iceskater
(No nation or state ever taxed itself into prosperity.)
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