Posted on 04/18/2004 4:32:09 PM PDT by BurkesLaw
The Gorelick memo, issued under the authority of the Justice Department in 1995, was blamed by Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday for hampering the ability of the FBI and CIA to cooperate in terrorist investigations.
Other aspects of Gorelick's tenure suggest more conflicts, such as questions about what role, if any, she played in advising President Clinton that there was no legal basis to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S. when he was offered by Sudan [to the U.S.] in 1996.....
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Looking through her [Gorelick's] bio and comparing it with other espionage cases, my guess is she got "recruited" while at Harvard Law School and someone there got her placed in Carter's Department of Energy, where she was when she became Deutch's legal counsel. I think maybe some digging into Carter's Department of Energy and any personnel overlaps with the Clinton administration might shed some light. If I may think out loud a bit: About the time Gorelick came into Carter's DoE, Carter replaced Sec. Energy James Schlesinger with one Charles Duncan, Jr. This change at DoE was probably not coincidentally about the time of the Iran Hostage Crisis when there was a big policy conflict between Carter advisors who supported the Shah, led by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and policy advisors who opposed the Shah and supported normalizing relations with the Ayatollah's new regime, led by Cyrus Vance. Vance's deputy at that time was Warren Christopher, Clinton's future Secretary of State; Carter's ambassador to Iran William Sullivan was also among the pro-Ayatollah faction; and meanwhile while this is going on at State, Gorelick joins DoE in 1979 as Assistant to the Secretary and counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy--hmmm. . .I'm not sure what it is yet, but there's gotta be something to that. . .
Conservatives DO own/control enough newspapers that, given a reasonable cause which this is, and if they wanted to, they could hammer it enough to make the Wash Post, NY Times, LA Times etc. etc. look really bad and stupid for their silence. I'd suggest that we all call the Wash Times, NY Post etc. and ask that they do this.
Please Mr. President, if you or anyone on your staff read FreeRepublic, please do this for us. I beg you! It will crush the left-wing for a long long time. I know it will.
You're welcome, and thank you for your own research and observations. I am currently looking more into it and trying to put some pieces together.
To share my own line of thought FWIW: Putting Gorelick's background in the context of the Carter DoE and looking at the Carter administration's opposition to the Shah in terms of motive, my hunch is that someone in the anti-Shah faction of the Carter administration had to be working for foreign oil interests against American oil interests (the Rockefeller-centered American oil lobby was pro-Shah and lined up with Zbigniew Brzezinski against Cyrus Vance and William Sullivan's anti-Shah policy--details on this in Kai Bird, The Chairman: John J. McCloy the Making of the American Establishment, Chapter 28). Who were they working for, then? My best guesses are possibly either Saudi Arabia/OPEC (in light of the OPEC oil embargo of the early 70s) and/or the USSR (the Soviets of course encouraged Egypt/Syria and OPEC against the US), which leads me to wonder if Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum figure in there somewhere (Hammer having oil ties to OPEC member Libya as well as Russia). A related clue I'm trying to fit into the big picture is that Cyrus Vance, who led the anti-Shah faction in the Carter administration, was a nephew of John W. Davis (cf. William H. Harbaugh, Lawyers Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis), a major Washington lawyer who was a leading figure in the Democratic Party for decades; and during the LBJ administration Vance had also been a political ally of W. Averell Harriman (on this see, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, 707-708), a long-time Russophile who had done business with Hammer in Russia. Here is some information from Harriman's biography:
Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman, 1891-1986
P. 150: During two weeks of discussions between Robinson and Russian bureaucrats in an old palace that had once belonged to a Russian merchant, Harriman called on Western diplomats and dined with Armand Hammer at the mansion where the Soviets had ensconced their favorite concessionaire. Hammer was one foreigner who was propering mightily in the USSR, taking advantage of his father's personal friendship with Lenin. His first concession had been an asbestos mining operation similar to Averell's manganese enterprise, and it had been a bust. After bailing out of it, Hammer had pursued several other ventures. . .
P. 161-163: Scarcely more than a year after his own Moscow negotiations, [Harriman] realized that it was impossible to do business in the Soviet Union. He served notice on the Soviet government, demanding arbitration and cancellation of the contract. . .but Harriman did not join in a public effort to embarrass the Soviets as he had suggested to his German associates. Among the purchasers of the discounted Soviet bonds was Armand Hammer, who, nearing the end of his long stay in the Soviet Union, had established a small banking operation in Paris.
After Stalin's death, Hammer and Harriman led attempts to reopen US-Soviet trade ties, as meanwhile Hammer developed his ties with Libya. My hunch is that there was some deep connection between Hammer, Harriman, and Carter's anti-Shah policy, and if so it would've had to connect at some point with Cyrus Vance and William Sullivan. How/if Gorelick fits into this I'm not sure, but that's the angle I'm approaching it from, FWIW.
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