Posted on 06/15/2008 6:43:30 AM PDT by Libloather
Janet Reno's No. 2 possible AG for Obama
Jamie Gorelick accused of treating terror suspects as mere criminals
Posted: June 13, 2008 10:45 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
NEW YORK – A panel of Democratic Party legal heavyweights speculated Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, could be appointed attorney general if Barack Obama were elected president.
In a panel chaired by Elena Kagan, dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, Gorelick charged on the opening plenary panel of the American Constitution's Society two-day meeting in Washington that the Bush administration had politicized the operation of the Justice Department.
Gorelick said that if she were appointed attorney general in an Obama administration, her first job would be to "fix" the Department of Justice.
"The Justice Department only functions well if the career lawyers have a voice and are actively consulted," Gorelick told the 700 attendees. "In the old order, if the White House wanted to know if something was lawful, it would call the Justice Department, and there would be a lot of discussion within the Justice Department at the attorney general's office. The legal opinion would be the product of the Justice Department's work."
Later, Gorelick acknowledged the attorney general had to be close ideologically to the president in order to represent the administration's legal positions both to the public and through the office of solicitor general.
Gorelick was appointed by then-Senate Democratic Party minority leader Tom Daschle to serve on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, commonly known as the 9/11 commission.
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oh my gosh...
He’s going to put a pro-terrorist Clinton appointee in charge?
The author of the policy that prohibited information exchanges between the FBI and the agencies monitoring terrorist activity, thus preventing the government from connecting the 9/11 dots before the attack, IRRC.
We can only live in hope that this would happen. There is so much dirt on this a-hole, between the "wall" she built at Justice and the Fannie Mae/Countrywide shenanigans, to the terrorists defended by her law firm, it will be neverending fun!
Jamie “The Wall” Gorelick (and Clinton lick also).
Another example of how things will be under the black Muslim BO.
No wonder Hamas et al love Obama, eh?
Good bye, America. We hardly knew ye.
Because we have to do SOMETHING to THANK her for the 9-11 attacks.
I think this is a joke.
Surely, Obama isn’t that stupid.
I mean, he might put her in as AG, but to say so now is like slow suicide.
GUILTY !
Had to reread the article.
“A panel of Democratic Party legal heavyweights speculated ...”
(me and some boys at the newsdesk speculated....)
The guy's a socialist. They don't breed 'em for brains.
“He’s going to put a pro-terrorist Clinton appointee in charge?”
I had to read it several times, and it is very convoluted.
I think what it says is that They had a panel, which included Jamie Gorelick, and afterward she implied she would be a good choice for the AG spot under Obama.
The reporter then went to tremendous effort to make it sound like some Obama had made some public announcement.
Hillary Clinton or Lindsay Graham could be McCain’s pick.
Whoever the next president is, I think we are going to see many jaw-dropping nominations and political appointments.
We thought Bush’s Miers was off-the-wall. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet — whether it is McCain or Obama.
Not sure how she can live with herself.
The wall builder whose obstructionism was intended to save the Clintons from prosecution and instead led directly to the unimpeded 911 atttack because our intelligence and law enforecment agencies were unable to share information?
That Jamie Gorelick? For Attorney General?
Wonder what former FBI Director Louis Freeh would say about that?
Unrepentant pentagon bomber William Ayers would be a better choice.
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