Posted on 04/22/2004 7:24:14 PM PDT by jimbo123
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAG WENDSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1997
GORELICK TO LEAVE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Jamie S. Gorelick announced today that she will be resigning from her position as Deputy Attorney General to return to private life. Gorelick said she will remain in office long enough to help Attorney General Janet Reno assemble a team to lead the Department in the Clinton Administration's second term.
As the Justice Department's number two official since March 1994, Ms. Gorelick has served as the Department's chief operating officer, provided overall supervision of the Department, and functioned as the direct manager of its law enforcement components. She is one of the longest serving Deputies in the Department's history, and second woman ever to hold the position.
"Jamie brought tremendous managerial skill, brilliant legal ability, and great sensitivity to an extremely difficult job," said Reno. "Her contributions to the Department are incalculable, and I will miss her greatly, both as a colleague and as a friend."
As Deputy Attorney General, Gorelick introduced new managerial structures to guide the Department in the midst of a 30 percent increase in the Department's personnel and a 70 percent budget increase during her tenure.
One of Ms. Gorelick's principal priorities was to help prepare the Justice Department to be able to respond effectively to the new challenges of transnational crime and terrorism. To do this, she forged new relationships and administrative protocols with the Departments of State, Treasury and Defense, and with the intelligence community.
The Deputy Attorney General also worked with the Department's law enforcement components to better respond to crisis situations in the aftermath of the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco. After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, she coordinated the government's overall response to the bombing and supervised the investigative and prosecutorial response to the crisis.
"In all of her work with law enforcement," Reno added, "Jamie displayed a sensitivity to the civil liberties of our citizens that gave comfort to all of us who care deeply about the Constitution."
Gorelick added, "I want to express my gratitude to the President, for giving me the opportunity to serve this great Department, and for his commitment to protecting the American people and their liberties. And I want to thank the Attorney General for her friendship, and for leading this Department with unmatched integrity and a commitment to the highest principles of justice."
Before joining the Department of Justice, Gorelick served from May 1993 to April 1994 as General Counsel of the Department of Defense. As General Counsel, she supervised the government's second-largest "law firm," consisting of 10,000 lawyers.
Gorelick, 46, is a former partner in the Washington law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larocca and Lewin, and a former President of the District of Columbia Bar. She graduated from Harvard College in 1972, and from Harvard Law School in 1975. She is married to Richard Waldhorn, M.D., and has two children.
So that's why John Doe II was swept under the rug. It also explains why no witnesses who saw McVeigh that morning were allowed at his trial. They all saw others with McVeigh.
I hate to be beating a dead horse – but I think another aspect of Gorelick is shown by an incident that occurred in October of 1995, recounted by George Stephanopoulos in his memoir of serving in the Clinton Administration. It was October 3, 1995 and Stephanopoulos, Gorelick and Bill Clinton were in the White House – watching the verdict come down in The People of California v. Orenthal James Simpson.
Stephanopoulos describes how Gorelick was holding a statement in her hands – ready to go to the White House pressroom – in the event that O.J. was convicted. The White House widely expected that a riot would break out in L.A. and elsewhere after a conviction and they wanted to offer up an immediate palliative. The statement was an announcement of a Federal civil rights investigation into Detective Mark Fuhrman. Obviously they didn’t need to read that one since there was no conviction, no riots (and no justice) that day.
Think about the fact that the Clinton Administration could take the time and effort to prepare such a politically motivated prosecution – yet when the accused was acquitted and justice was denied – they couldn’t take the time to conduct a Federal investigation to determine if a Federal prosecution on perhaps conspiracy to commit murder charges (gee, do you think that maybe O.J.’s cell calls on the way to the airport might just have been to A.C. Cowlings to coordinate the disposal of evidence?). That Gorelick was a part of this is very disturbing. If, God forbid, there is another Democratic Administration and she gets appointed to anything that requires Congressional confirmation – I want to see this matter fully mined.
I hate to be beating a dead horse – but I think another aspect of Gorelick is shown by an incident that occurred in October of 1995, recounted by George Stephanopoulos in his memoir of serving in the Clinton Administration. It was October 3, 1995 and Stephanopoulos, Gorelick and Bill Clinton were in the White House – watching the verdict come down in The People of California v. Orenthal James Simpson.
Stephanopoulos describes how Gorelick was holding a statement in her hands – ready to go to the White House pressroom – in the event that O.J. was convicted. The White House widely expected that a riot would break out in L.A. and elsewhere after a conviction and they wanted to offer up an immediate palliative. The statement was an announcement of a Federal civil rights investigation into Detective Mark Fuhrman. Obviously they didn’t need to read that one since there was no conviction, no riots (and no justice) that day.
Think about the fact that the Clinton Administration could take the time and effort to prepare such a politically motivated prosecution – yet when the accused was acquitted and justice was denied – they couldn’t take the time to conduct a Federal investigation to determine if a Federal prosecution on perhaps conspiracy to commit murder charges might be warranted (gee, do you think that maybe O.J.’s cell calls on the way to the airport might just have been to A.C. Cowlings to coordinate the disposal of evidence?). That Gorelick was a part of this is very disturbing. If, God forbid, there is another Democratic Administration and she gets appointed to anything that requires Congressional confirmation – I want to see this matter fully mined.
She is a political hack of the highest order and does not belong on that Commission.
Sounds like Reno wasn't controlling much from the statement:"she will remain in office to help Janet Reno assemble a team to lead the Department"......
In the real (business) world this is known as "empire building". Gorelick is the perfect Clinton scum - - loves to spend other people's money.
Wow, did she ever screw that up.
Her incompetence helped cause 3,000 American citizens to lose their lives.
Instead, she added to the "wall". Perhaps her initial motive in supplimenting the "wall", was to make mor difficult any investigation of the Chinese and Indonesian connections to Clinton's campaign (what Clinton should have been impeached for IMO).
10,000 government lawyers? And it is second largest? What a nightmare!
Absolutely. It needs to be under oath and in public.
I would also demand that she be questioned by people not on the Commission.
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