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? 

[GOPJ]

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[Weirdad]

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[ladyjane]

Jamie Gorelick is very wired in to the good ol’ boys. She is now representing Duke University in their ungoing legal troubles due to their mishandling of the lacrosse hoax. She is buddy-buddy with Steele, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke and now - interestingly - heading up Wachovia.

Maybe we’ll next see her orchestrating the rape of Wachovia.

[WHBates]

Thanks for the ping.

This woman is a one person wrecking crew. It would be nice if just a little of what she has been involved in got exposed to the Nation at large. But that would be hoping for to much justice I guess?

[WHBates]

Good Lord I hope not! If it's true that she is involved in Wachovia I will be pulling my business out.

[BelegStrongbow]

If it's true that she is involved in Wachovia I will be pulling my business out.

Don't wait on that confirmation, get your cash out now and beat the rush. We did and we're overjoyed.

[ItsForTheChildren]

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

Could be her most redeeming quality.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Freee-dame]

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.

This is a really scarythought, but probably true. It was such an outrage to have had Gorelick on the 9-11 commission.

[Freee-dame]

To: lionheart 247365 Time, maybe a long time, will reveal that someone had something on somebody(s) in the Bush administration that made it possible for their strings to be pulled from afar. There is just too much that's gone unexplored and uninvestigated for it to be anything other than a video tape or FBI file that has been used for blackmail.

Conspiracy theory extreme that it is, the only thing that can possibly be this serious is the complicity of Bush 1 in the goings on in Mena, Arkansas.

[jwparkerjr]

I am not normally what I would consider a conspiracy nut, but I look at a situation like this and have to wonder why they have been so compliant and quiet. Then you add in the hundreds of FBI files that ended up in their possession and the only explanation that fits all the variables is that someone has something on someone.

[bmwcyle]

This woman is our number two domestic enemy old George S.

[GOPJ]

You’re right - she is a one person wrecking crew.

[GOPJ]

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[GOPJ]

She is buddy-buddy with Steele, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke and now - interestingly - heading up Wachovia.

Shall we assume Wachovia will forclose on many homes right before the election?

Also, does this mean Wachovia's the next group to be bailed out?

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

.....to a thread about a woman who has the blood of at least 3,000 Americans dripping from her hands.

[jazusamo]

It is mind boggling that one person could do the harm to our country that she has.

Terrorists in our world couldn’t have had a better tool in our government if they’d have put her there themselves but they didn’t have to, Clinton and Daschle did it for them.

I believe liberalism cost all those lives and she is merely on of its tools.

[bigheadfred]

In times past people took on as their surname what they did for a living. I didn’t realize the practice was still in use today.

I’ve been trying to educate myself on the people at the top of these huge debacle’s. Thanks for the ping. It is most enlightening.

[bigheadfred]

And now I have a new admonition for my kids: Stop acting like a Gorelick. Or, Do you have to be such a Gorelick?

[4woodenboats]

It really is a gross name, more like a nickname that you'd give some demented chick who get's off popping blackheads, whiteheads, zits, toenail parasites and boils with her teeth - and then sticks her tongue out to show everyone.

Didn't she play the leper in Cool Hand Luke that made Paul Newman smoke his cigar before he'd help him get out of the swamp?

Don't forget her Hollywood debut as a stunt double for half the diseased dogs in "I Am Legend" - she ate the other half soon as the scenes were finished.

I'm glad to see the dishonorable mention as a human wall temporarily protecting the scuz at Duke from their inevitable destiny as empty shells as she sucks the integrity out of them like so many bloated ticks.