Oh, yeah...right from her biography:
"Prior to joining Fannie Mae in May 1997, Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States, a position she assumed in March 1994. From May 1993 until she joined the Justice Department, Gorelick served as general counsel of the Department of Defense..."
It would appear that before she got busy building her "wall" with the DOJ, she was attempting to do something similar at DoD. The Clinton's fascination with treating terrorism as a "legal matter" came right out of all this manuevering.
This was an attempt to give lawyers the final say, even when it came to military decisions. And this was further exposed when you look at those operations that were nixed because lawyers got involved. Whether it was the cancelled operation to kill UBL when a drone spotted him, or the refusal to extradite him from Sudan--supposedly because they couldn't get an indictment--these decisions were all made by lawyers.
Even this latest story was a result of Reno/Gorelick policy that refused to even LOOK at Arabs for fear of being accused of racism or profiling. And all of this was also an extension of Clinton's Mid-East Peace legacy were he didn't want to appear biased against Arabs as he dealt with Isreal and Palestine. Yet, even with all this appeasement throughout the 1990's, we were still attacked on 9/11.
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If I remember properly, wasn't Karl Rove lambasted for saying that democrats would see terrorist acts as criminal acts, but Republicans see it as an act of war?? Something to that effect. Anybody got the article?
Lawsuits, legislating from the bench, environmental issues - the leftist way of grabbing power from the People.
The American left's fascination with treating espionage by American citizens as a "legal matter" is at the root of treating terror the same. It's a policy left over from the Cold War in the mind of the Left when American citizens, such as Algier Hiss and Dr. Armand Hammer, needed to communicate freely with their Soviet handlers without fear of being arrested by the FBI.
No, but here is what Karl Rove said:
Perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.