Mistress of Disaster: Jamie Gorelick

American Thinker ^ | September 19, 2008 | C. Edmund Wright

[neverdem]

Ken Lay and Jack Abramoff must be green with envy over the all the mischief that has been accomplished by Jamie Gorelick, with scarcely any demonization in the press.

Imagine playing a central role in the biggest national defense disaster in 50 years. Imagine playing a central role in one of the biggest economic disasters in your country's history. Imagine doing both as an un-elected official. Imagine getting filthy rich in the process, and even being allowed to sit self-righteously on a commission appointed to get to the bottom of the first disaster, which of course did not get to the bottom of that disaster or anything else for that matter.

Imagine ending, ruining or at least causing signficant quality deterioration in the lives of millions of people, most of whom will never know your name. Imagine counting your millions of dollars while people who tried to stop you from causing all this mayhem were getting blamed for most of the ills you actually contributed to.

Well, as un-imagineable as this is, there is one American who doesn't have to imagine it. One Jamie Gorelick is this American. And without pretending that she caused the loss of countless thousands of lives and countless billions of dollars of wealth by herself, she certainly did push some of the early domino's in catastrophic chain events that are a major factors in life in America today.

This is not a bad millineums's work, when you think about it. Gorelick, an appointee of Bill Clinton, is the one who constructed the wall of separation that kept the CIA and the FBI from comparing notes and therefore invading the privacy of nice young men like, say, Muhammed Atta and Zacarius Moussaoui. While countless problems were uncovered in our intelligence operations in the wake of 9-11, no single factor comes close to in importance to Jamie Gorelick's wall.

In fact, it was Gorelick's wall, perhaps more than any other single factor, that induces some people to blame Clinton himself for 9-11 since he appointed her and she acted  consistent with his philosophy of "crime fighting." She put the wall into place as Deputy Attorney General in 1995.

And for good measure, she was appointed by Tom Daschle to serve on the "non partisan" 9-11 Commission. And we thought the fox in the henhouse was simply a metaphor. Of course, in a splendid example of "reaching across the aisle," feckless Republican Slade Gorton of Washington did all he could to exonerate Gorelick in the commission. Thanks, Slade. God forbid the nation actually knows the truth.

But for Ms. Gorelick, one earth shaking catastrophe is just not enough. You might think that she caused enough carnage to us infidels on 9-11 as to qualify her for the 72 virgins upon her death. (this would also keep her consistent with several of Clinton's philosophies).

Alas, that's only part of her resume. Her fingerprints are all over the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac mess, which is to say the mess that is central in the entire mortgage-housing crisis. Without so much as one scintilla of real estate or finance experience, she was appointed as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae in 1997 and served in that role through 2003, which is when most of the systemic cancers that came home to roost today happened. She was instrumental in covering up problems with Fannie Mae while employed there and took multiple millions in bonuses as she helped construct this house of cards.

From Wikipedia:

One example of falsified financial transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a "manipulation" that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives.  On March 25, 2002, Business Week  Gorelick is quoted as saying, "We believe we are managed safely. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions." One year later, Government Regulators "accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses"

As we know, the financial damage done by the housing related problems in this country are still incalculable. Ms. Gorelick's evil tab is still growing.

But it doesn't stop there. She managed to be on the wrong side of the Duke LaCrosse case, working for Duke University to protect that school from it's damaging knee jerk reactions to the spectacularly unbelievable charges filed by a stripper. (excuse me, exotic dancer). So, even on a smaller scale, she continues to make money while working to ruin the lives of innocent Americans in defense of liberal dogma.

From what can be gleaned, it all comes from being well connected. She was educated (is that what they call it?) at Harvard undergrad and Harvard Law. From there, she kept getting appointed to positions above her experience level where she could flex her liberal muscles, add a resume item, and move upward.

Sound familiar? 

[neverdem]

What Clinton hath wrought!

Stay home or vote third party. Don't be surprised with what you get.

http://gunbanobama.com/

[cherry]

I am just so sick of this ......no justice....no peace......

I truly can say that I hate these people and hope God sends punishment in this life, His will be done.....

[Anti-Bubba182]

Jamie Gorelick

[MarkT]

One can only hope that she did not breed...

[tina07]

I’m sure this will be all over the news/sarc

[syriacus]

Freepers were on top of this back in 2004.

Jamie Gorelick's law firm represents Fannie Mae, which cooked books, gave Gorelick big bonus

[Lancey Howard]

Gorelick has the blood of AT LEAST 3,000 Americans on her hands.

[driftless2]

Anyone think this news will make it to the Slimes front page above the fold? Think again. In fact for all the harm Gorelick has done in a name recogntion test, I’ll bet less than ten per cent of Americans know who she is. But I’ll still give the title of Ultimate Master Of Disaster to Bill Clinton who appointed and supported her in her great misdeeds. Thanks Bill, you’ve helped created two separate catastrophes: one for national defense, and one for financial system. Clinton put the CRA Act on steroids and appointed criminal buffoons like Raines and Gorelick to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

[Old Flat Toad]

Better cache them Wiki pages before the Obrevisionists get it.

[tina07]

May she rot in hell. I’m livid.

[tina07]

oh no, no, all Bush’s fault, haven’t ya heard?/sarc

[ME-262]

It sounds like Ms. Gorelick is most representative of Democrat thinking. She should be running for President and not Obama. She has a proved record of being able to humble America.

It would seem her record will be hard to top for other Democrats.

Can you be executed for being so stupid that you are a grave danger to the world? It is a wonder she hasn't been killed by her own stupidity yet.

You could probably get rich asking Ms. Gorelick for stock buys and then shorting them instead.

[neverdem]

Better cache them Wiki pages before the Obrevisionists get it.

How is that done? My impression is that search engines create caches. Am I wrong? Should Wiki's Jamie Gorelick page be copied?

[KAUAIBOUND]

I have always suspected that the real reason the “wall” was put in place was to cover up the flow of foreign money in the 1995-96 campaign cycle to the Democrats. 911 was an unintended consequence, but then the Clinton administration was always grossly incompetent.

[Sparky1776]

bookmarked

[taildragger]

How and why she is still a member on the board of Directors for United Technologies is beyond me.

The same good folks who make the engines for the F-22 (Pratt and Whitney) and the BlackHawk Helicopters (Sikorsky) for our fine men and women in harms way.

[Alia]

For years now, Jamie Gore-Lick has reminded me of a corrupt Mr. Magoo.

[raybbr]

How and why she is still a member on the board of Directors for United Technologies is beyond me.

Because corporate politics is just as in incestuous as election politics. They have the same goal; getting power and maintaining power.

[Hardastarboard]

the real reason the “wall” was put in place was to cover up the flow of foreign money in the 1995-96 campaign cycle to the Democrats

This statement gave me a chill. This the first time I've heard it, and it has a frightening ring of truth to it. I'd damn near bet my pension that you're right. Of course, if it's true it will NEVER get out into the light of day, or if it does, it will be one of those "conspiracy nut" stories that no one believes.

[PressurePoint]

Now, help me understand this.
Jamie Gorelick and her good ‘ol boy network of Ivy League educated liberal cronies have driven America to the brink of financial ruin. They all pulled in millions in salaries and bonuses. As another Clintonista Ivy League genius, Robert Rubin, has said “few, if any” people anticipated this.

Just to be clear Jamie, Robert and friends: I predicted it.
But then, I didn’t go to Harvard.

And now we’re being told by another Ivy League genius that he is the only candidate smart enough to get us out of this.
After all, the McCain/Palin ticket from Annapolis and the University of Idaho ... well, they’re just hayseeds from hick schools.