Thomas Kean says I am the most non-partisan, bi-partisan member of the 911 Commission. Well, ain't I SPECIAL !?
Posted on 05/25/2004 7:19:57 PM PDT by jmstein7
Jamie Gorelick – What a Girl Wants
By Jonathan M. Stein
Jamie Gorelick wants to be Attorney General – badly. That is why she agreed to be on the 9/11 Commission. Her reward for sufficiently tarring President Bush in the Commission’s report would be a guaranteed position as Attorney General in a Democrat administration. Jamie Gorelick wants to be Attorney General, and she will do anything to get the job.
Make no mistake – this is an opportunity Ms. Gorelick has been savoring since December of 1996, when Bill Clinton decided to keep Janet Reno on as Attorney General in his second term. Soon after that decision, she departed from her number two slot at Justice, biding her time in FNMA and private practice. Clinton needed Reno’s apparent veneer of impartiality to wade through his myriad scandals.
As an interesting side note, Ms. Gorelick also had designs on the top spot in the CIA; Clinton passed upon her candidacy for that position as well, though it had been reported that she was being considered, along with Sandy Berger. Aside from a brief stint as the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, her qualifications for that position – Director of the CIA – remain a mystery. Her judgment on matters of intelligence – e.g. the now-famous information “wall” between the CIA and FBI – has been, at best questionable; at worst, it should properly be the subject of the very investigation she is involved in as a 9/11 Commissioner.
This sort of glaring conflict of interest is nothing new for Ms. Gorelick.
For example, consider the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal – which, it should be noted, was “handled” by Senator John Kerry and his Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Ms. Gorelick had represented Clark Clifford and Robert Altman when they tried to get their former employer First American Bank (a BCCI property) to pay their legal fees, though the Justice Department was involved in the prosecution of BCCI. Further, she had close ties to the embattled lawyers in the White House when the Clintons brought her in to replace Philip Heymann, former Deputy Attorney General, during the Whitewater and Vince Foster scandals. Mr. Heymann had been abruptly fired by the Clinton White House when he objected to the manner in which the White House was handling the Foster investigation – and he was almost immediately replaced by close Clinton ally Gorelick.
During the Travelgate investigation, yet another Clinton scandal, Ms. Gorelick’s Associate Deputy Attorney General, David Margolis, apparently attempted to interfere with the prosecution of Billy Dale and Gary Wright by improperly divulging information disclosed at a grand jury proceeding to Democrat John Conyers – at the time, Conyers was Chairman of the House Government Operations Committee. Despite this glaring, egregious breach of the rules of criminal procedure by Margolis – which would benefit the Clinton White House – Gorelick took no action against Margolis and kept him on. Gorelick is an unabashed political operative to the end.
Jamie Gorelick has been described as a iron-fisted and politically dexterous deputy attorney general. It was well-known that she handled the day-to-day operations at Justice, whereas Reno functioned as more of a figurehead who lost her compass when she lost Gorelick in early 1997. However, Gorelick’s added value was her political acumen. For example, when the Republicans began to attack Clinton’s judicial appointments as soft on crime – prior to the 1996 election – Gorelick set up a “war room” similar to the Clinton “war room” of the 1992 election. Her entire purpose was to control the news cycle and bolster the images of the liberal judges and lawyers in Clinton’s roster. In many ways, Gorelick is every bit as slick as her boss was – i.e. Clinton.
Ms. Gorelick’s seemingly inappropriate functions outraged some commentators, such as Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal Foundation. Levin pondered “[p]recisely what . . . the lawyers assigned to the Justice ‘war room’ [were] doing, and with whom [were] they at ‘war’?” At the same time, Levin also noted that “Mrs. Gorelick's former law firm -Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin – [was] representing Craig Livingstone, the man at the center of the [Clinton] Filegate scandal [being investigated by the Justice Department].” Not surprisingly, Gorelick, who was effectively running Justice at the time, did not recuse herself.
Jamie Gorelick wants to finally emerge from the shadow of Janet Reno, not merely as the de facto Attorney General, but as the actual attorney general of the United States. Her outrageous conflict of interest as a Commissioner of the 9/11 panel is just par for the course, and her keen political skills will enable her to deflect criticism and keep her position – despite the strong evidence that she should, in fact, step down as a Commissioner and be sworn-in as a witness. A former Democrat staffer recently stated that Ms. Gorelick is on the commission for one reason – and it isn’t for her legal mind. Gorelick in on the Commission “to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno." Her reward for doing her job well. . . the powerful position she has coveted for seven years.
Thanks, CB!
And isn't that sad?
You can't buy journalism at a newspaper anymore. You have to unbury it from a conservative website.
It's indeed what we expect of our big name journalists, including those on Fox.
Thomas Kean says I am the most non-partisan, bi-partisan member of the 911 Commission. Well, ain't I SPECIAL !?
Trying sending to magazine that Fred Barnes writes for.
Send it as an opinion piece to local newspapers.
I'll private mail you a long list I picked up from a DU site (tee hee).
Good work!
I dug this up a while ago - I think it's worthy of a mention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts
FReeper Research: GORELICK WORKED WITH RICHARD CLARKE! (HHS website transcript)
---
Also some good stuff posted in the comments!
TWA Flight 800, and the Gorelick connection http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118671/posts
DEEPER CIA LINK BY 9/11 PANELIST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118652/posts
Also connections to the killing the investigation ito Islamic terrorists role in the Oklahoma bombing.
Ping!
Great read! Saw one typo. Line 1, paragraph 7: use "an" instead of "a" iron-fisted...
Girls just want to have fun.
Lots of good info there, and I agree that she'd like to be AG.
I just don't see it happening under a JFK presidency.
She is one of Hillary's creatures and will not be able to disentangle herself from Hillary's coat-tails.
She will have to wait for the first Hillary admiistration to fullfill her dream.
God help us all.
Nicely done, and probably 100% true. But you did not provide any evidence to back up some key assertions.
For instance, how do you know she was considered for both the AG and CIA spots?
Do you have any sources who can independently confirm your conclusion that she wants to be AG? If so, that would also be a big plus.
I disagree with one of your comments: That Janet Reno had perceived impartiality, and that this helped deflect inquiries into Billy's many scandals. If you have a Clinton admin source for that fine, but otherwise it does not ring true. A more likely reason is that she was completely under Billy's thumb.
With other women.
The White House Bulletin, JANUARY 31, 1995
Sunday Times, November 10, 1996
Do you have any sources who can independently confirm your conclusion that she wants to be AG? If so, that would also be a big plus.
The Washington Times, February 11, 1994
The American Spectator, June, 1994
The White House Bulletin, May 28, 1996
The Washington Times, June 20, 1996
Providence Journal-Bulletin (Rhode Island), April 16, 1997
The Recorder, December 24, 1997
I disagree with one of your comments: That Janet Reno had perceived impartiality, and that this helped deflect inquiries into Billy's many scandals. If you have a Clinton admin source for that fine, but otherwise it does not ring true. A more likely reason is that she was completely under Billy's thumb.
See Dick Morris's recent book, Rewriting History
I've done my homework here, but I won't reveal all of my research secrets. If you really want the answers, go through the sources I've outlined.
No she just has a sheaf of incredibly damaging FBI files in her safe at home.
Good answers. You've done your homework.
The article would benefit if you supported your points with some of the sources you posted here.
Great post BUMP!
No room to do so... I plan on submitting this as an op-ed, and I need to preserve my space for as much actual substance and argument as possible.
If this, on the other hand, were an academic assignment, I would put the sources in as footnotes. Can't exactly do that in an op-ed where you have limited space to make your points.
If that is what you think, then you truly do not understand the Leftists who are working to destroy America. You think they lose sleep over what happened on September 11, 2001? Let me tell you, they'd willingly repeat that day one thousand times over if it gave them what they want: complete totalitarian control of the United States and the destruction of our Constitution (which they despise).
Sound incredible? Then don't take my word for it, take theirs:
These photos were taken at the "Global Day of Action" rally in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, March 20th, 2004.
(Note: I did not take these photos.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
