The Gorelick Rosetta Stone

WebCommentary.com ^ | 20 April 2004 | Scott Jordan

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Yeah, rumor's had it that Hatch has been dirty in that regard for years. Explains a thing or two, eh?

Meanwhile, folks, Jim Quinn's email address is quinn@warroom.com. Join me in emailing him congratulations on a superb job with his commentary!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

...Judicial Watch filed a suit regarding Hatch/BCCI. I have no idea what any follow-up has been, if any (this is JW we're talking about...):

JUDICIAL WATCH v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Civil Action No. 99-1038. Judicial Watch filed suit against the Justice Department seeking documents relating to Senator Orrin Hatch and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ("BCCI").

[Eva]

This article is a great find. It clearly describes and elaborates on the connection between the Gorelick memo and the Chinese campaign donations, then goes on to add the link to the microsoft lawsuit and the same donors. I had never heard of that link before. I had always heard that the donors were Silicon Valley people that Gore was courting. I'm going to bookmark this page.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bump to #58 ....

[Homer1]

You're welcome

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I had always heard that the donors were Silicon Valley people that Gore was courting."

The link has been out there, but unexplored by the media, for some years. It's a highly technical topic involving lots of murky financial information, and few presstitutes would have the inclination or patience for such things. It may well be that between the founding of AmerIndo by "Indonesian Chinese investors" (per the Fortune snippet referenced in the article) and the DOJ's prosecution of Microsoft in 1996, the Indo-Chinese folks might have exited. Or, maybe not; and the fund's origins are inticingly spotlighted by that Fortune comment. Until there's some sort of investigation that can peek beneath the sheets of AmerIndo's private venture fund's capitalization in 1996, we won't know. To make things murkier, AmerIndo has a smallish, public mutual fund--and unfortunately any googling on their name will lead you there rather than to info regardin the private fund--but that part of their business seems unrelated to this topic.

In any case, it's not as though Chinese influence and "Silicon Valley people Gore was courting" are mutually exclusive concepts! Google on ["Sandy Robertson", "Dianne Feinstein", "Ron Brown"] sometime... Robertson was a tech investment banking luminary and Clinton supporter who found himself in some interesting circumstances courtesy of DiFi and Brown...

[prognostigaator]

rebump

[antonia]

Ethan Wallision, also writing in National Review Online, states:

In questioning National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, Commissioner Gorelick pointed to a report from 2001 that indicated, in her own words, that 'we have big systemic problems. The FBI doesn't work the way it should, and it doesn't communicate with the intelligence community.'

In the ensuing dialogue, Rice seemed to implicate Gorelick in the allegation.

Gorelick: Now, you have said that your policy review was meant to be comprehensive. You took your time because you wanted to get at the hard issues and have a hard-hitting, comprehensive policy. And yet there is nothing in [the policy review] about the vast domestic landscape that we were all warned needed so much attention. Can you give me the answer to the question why?

Rice: I would ask the following. We were there for 233 days. There had been a recognition for a number of years before - after the '93 bombing, and certainly after the [thwarted] millennium [attack in Los Angles] - that there were challenges inside the United States, and that there were challenges concerning our domestic agencies and the challenges concerning the FBI and the CIA. We were in office 233 days. It's absolutely the case that we did not begin structural reform at the FBI. ~ Ethan Wallison, Wrong Side of the Table, National Review Online, April 12, 2004, available at http://www.nationalreviewonline.com/comment/wallision.

[antonia]

Jamie S. Gorelick, Commissioner Jamie Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler Pickering, joining them in July 2003.

One of the more troubling aspects of the war on terror is how to treat the prisoners of that war. Whether the prisoners are foreigners captured on the battle field, or Americans citizens captured in Chicago, the Administration has often been reluctant to allow enenmy combatants to meet with lawyers.

One reason for the reluctance is that the administration is concerned that the lawyers might become conduits for information from the prisoners to be passed along to others.

What is needed to find highly competent counsel for the enemy combatants who the administration trusts implicitly with the most sensitive information.

The solution is for the high powered Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering to be appointed to represent all enemy combatants.

Now, Wilmer, Cutler may at first seem an odd choice for the job. After all, Wilmer Cutler represents Prince Mohammed al Faisal in the suit by the 9/11 families. The families contend that al Faisal has legal responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. The Prince allegedly had a part in the finances of Al Qaeda.

Despite that representation, it is clear that the administration trusts Wilmer Cutler with the most sensitive of information. Wilmer Cutler partner, Jamie Gorelick is a commissioner on the 9/11 commission. In addition to being a commissioner, Gorelick is also a witness before her own commission.

According to UPI , Gorelick is one of the two officials to whom the White House has granted the greatest access to the most secret and sensitive national security documents, the presidential daily briefings. Thus, the White House does not worry about providing information to the law firm of a Saudi Prince accused of being the financier of Al Qaeda when the firm in question is Wilmer Cutler.

Today, President Bush appointed the allegedly independent commission to investigate pre-war intelligence failures. Among those appointed to the commission was former Clinton White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler. Yes, Lloyd Cutler is the Cutler of Wilmer Cutler.

That commission will have to have access to the most sentitive information about our intelligence gathering. Once again, the White House in unconcered about the law firm for person accused of being Al Qaeda's banker having access to the most sentitive intelliegnce information.

That commission will have to have access to the most sentitive information about our intelligence gathering. Once again, the White House in unconcered about the law firm for person accused of being Al Qaeda's banker having access to the most sentitive intelliegnce information.

So Wilmer Cutler represents a Saudi against the 9/11 victims families. Wilmer Cutler is on the 9/11 commission. Wilmer Cutler is on the prewar intelligence commission. It seems only fitting that Wilmer Cutler also represent the enemy combatants. It is hard to believe that the White House would worry that Wilmer Cutler would pass sentitive information from Gitmo prisoners to Al Qaeda.

Perhaps Wilmer Cutler could also represent Scooter Libby with regard the Valerie Plame matter while it also represents Bob Novak before the grand jury. It could then represent Valerie Plame in a civil suit against Scooter Libby.

It appears that I must have missed the day of law school when they explained the Wilmer Cutler exception to the conflict rules.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Thank you! Fascinating stuff. This grows very deep...

[NovemberCharlie]

the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" assumes its rightful place, which is to be the most dreadful malfeasance of the 20th Century.

Even Clinton might have a hard time sinking lower than Woodrow Wilson, the man on whose watch we got the income tax, the Federal Reserve, direct election of senators, the League of Nations, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.

[PhilDragoo]

KERRY CHAOYING 2004

COMMUNISM'S LEGITIMATE VOICE

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Now what a nice picture of such obviously close friends.

Thanks!

[Just mythoughts]

I think the DOJ told algore this was under no controlling legal authority..... DOJ built a wall for the liberals to collect dollars!!!!

[cyncooper]

Scooter Libby has absolutely nothing to do with the Valeria Plame affair.

Nor does Cheney or Rove.

[cyncooper]

Also the administration did not select Gorelick to the commission; the dems did.

The commission was given limited access to some documents and they selected who would view them--not the WH. So it came to be that Gorelick was one of only three commissioners to see the August 2001 PDB before the WH declassified it.

[devolve]

Shhhhhhh! It's MISTER bin Laden!

[potlatch]

Good graphic Phil. It's the first time i've heard that Kerry received illegal contributions in 1996!

[TrueBeliever9]

I haven't seen your post anywhere before. I wonder if the media will report on the Kerry campaign contributions in 1996 from the Chinese! Is this what Hillary has on Kerry?

[TrueBeliever9]

I haven't seen your post anywhere before. I wonder if the media will report on the Kerry campaign contributions in 1996 from the Chinese! Is this what Hillary has on Kerry?