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? 

[bigheadfred]

Sounds like LOVE to me. JUST KIDDING!! I was right in the middle of peeling me a grape when I read your post. Doesn’t taste as good as it should for some reason. At least she is on the East Coast.

One good thing about living in a state Hillary wants to turn into a wilderness area (like it ain’t already) is the ‘pack it in-pack it out’ law. Which means, of course, that if it ever came here it couldn’t stay, cause they don’t allow piles of sh!+ to just lay about. They are disposed of properly—in Nevada. :-)

[shield]

She must go down for this....she is evil...

[shield]

Yes, the wall was put up to protect those 2 felons...

[GOPJ]

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.

You wanted a name? Here's the name - and all the people she brought with her.

[GOPJ]

ping

[Diogenesis]

Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen

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John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)

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Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
GORELICK GATE - various FR links

[PLMerite]

Okay, no mitigating hotness to take into consideration...

GUILTY!

[brityank]

Here’s another one to add to the pile of thieves and miscreants: http://tinyurl.com/4alxug — Alice Rivlin, Billy’s protege for budgets.

[Lancey Howard]

Even Clinton’s EPA chief, Carol Browner, was corrupt to the core. Man, that sick scumbag had a knack for surrounding himself with nothing but sick scumbags!

[4woodenboats]

knowing your post will get TOSsed doesn’t mean no one will take a snapshot of it 1st and smear FR with it.

[Harrius Magnus]

You’re right. I’m sorry to everyone for the stupid choice, and forgetting that I am a guest.

[AndyJackson]

We believe we are managed safely

Excuse me? Talk about passive aggressive. We are managed? She and her other cronies WERE the so-called management, and it was their job to actively manage so that the interests of shareholders and the government were protected. This is unbelievable.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the link.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping. Thanks for the link, 1117579. Thanks posting/linking/starting past threads.

Thanks to all researchers/linkers/educators/truthseekers. BTTT!

[Liz]

Amazing that we were on this back in 2004 (link)----knowing full well a disaster by the Clintons was in the making.

EXAMPLE Many of the laws requiring government oversight of the market written after the last great market crash-----in 1929---- were eliminated during the Clinton administration---one of many ignorant moves by the self-absorbed liberal Clintons.

Quota-pimp Clinton made stupid PC appointments----based NOT on merit, but b/c nitwit Clinton knelt to the insane god of "diversity."

His appointees may have been drooling cross-breeds as long as they met the gende/color/ethnic "diversity" atrocity.

Know-nothing Franklin Raines went to Fannie Mae where the crook proceeded to loot the agency while fraudulently cooking the books. (Wonder what Clinton's cut was?)

Thanks to sap-happy Clinton, 2008 markets are devastated, and multi-billion dollar bailouts will crush the backs of working class taxpayers.

[Liz]

It's not beyond reason to conclude that the mortgage/market debacle is the consequences of (1) moral relativity----and (2) disestablimentarianism (the deranged obsession with tearing down the foundation of Western Civilization).

Anything remotely connected to moral absolutes of right and wrong smacks of "religion" to disturbed religion-hating liberals.....and has to be destroyed.

Political correctness is the sword that slew the religious dragon. It would have been too "judgemental" to tell people they could not afford to buy a house beyond their means.

Many of the laws requiring government oversight of the market written after the last great market crash-----in 1929---- were eliminated during the Clinton administration---one of many ignorant moves by the self-absorbed liberal Clintons.

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY WRAPS IT UP Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's dysfunctional, Democrats during the Clinton years are a prime reason for it. Obama blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the "trickle-down" economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.

But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions.....

The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory."

[Grampa Dave]

“What Clinton hath wrought!
Stay home or vote third party. Don’t be surprised with what you get.”

We want to thank the walk on water so called conservatives, who gave us 8 years of the Clintoons and Gorelick, who helped to kill 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11 and was instrumental in the great mortgagegate meltdown.

Only God knows what other disasters the Clintoons, Gorelick, Gore, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Dood and the rest of the rat pack have hidden like land mines in our future.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

She was just following orders.

[School of Rational Thought]

The commercial should already be broadcasting.

We know who the culprits are:

Gorelick, Raines, Clinton, Carter, Cuomo, Dodd, Frank, Reno.

It isn’t Wall Street greed but government intervention. And now they want to be in charge of $700 billion after they caused the problem.

McCain is an idiot.