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What Gorelick Wants
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 6/02/04 | Jonathan M. Stein

Posted on 06/02/2004 1:05:46 AM PDT by kattracks

Jamie Gorelick wants to be Attorney General – badly. That is why she agreed to be on the 9/11 Commission, and it seems she will do anything to get the job. And with the potential for a new Democratic administration in less than a year, she can almost taste it.

Make no mistake – this is an opportunity Gorelick has been savoring since December of 1996, when Bill Clinton decided to keep Janet Reno on as Attorney General in his second term. Soon after that decision, she departed from her number two slot at Justice, biding her time in FNMA and private practice. Clinton needed Reno’s apparent veneer of impartiality to wade through his myriad scandals.

As an interesting side note, Gorelick also had designs on being the CIA Director; Clinton passed upon her candidacy for that position as well, though it had been reported that she was being considered, along with Sandy Berger. Aside from a brief stint as the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, her qualifications for the head spot at the CIA remain a mystery. Her judgment on matters of intelligence – e.g. the now-famous information "wall" between the CIA and FBI – has been, at best questionable; at worst, it should properly be the subject of the very investigation she is involved in as a 9/11 Commissioner.

This sort of glaring conflict of interest is nothing new for Gorelick.

Consider the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal – which, it should be noted, was "handled" by Senator John Kerry and his Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Gorelick had represented Clark Clifford and Robert Altman when they tried to get their former employer, First American Bank (a BCCI property), to pay their legal fees, though the Justice Department was involved in the prosecution of BCCI. During the Whitewater and Vince Foster scandals, former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann had been abruptly fired by the Clinton White House when he objected to the manner in which the White House was handling the Foster investigation – and he was almost immediately replaced by close Clinton ally Gorelick.

During the Travelgate investigation, yet another Clinton scandal, Gorelick’s Associate Deputy Attorney General, David Margolis, apparently attempted to interfere with the prosecution of Billy Dale and Gary Wright by improperly divulging information disclosed at a grand jury proceeding to Democrat John Conyers – at the time, Conyers was Chairman of the House Government Operations Committee. Despite this glaring, egregious breach of the rules of criminal procedure by Margolis – which would benefit the Clinton White House – Gorelick took no action against Margolis and kept him on. Gorelick is an unabashed political operative to the end.

Jamie Gorelick has been described as an iron-fisted and politically dexterous deputy attorney general. It was well-known that she handled the day-to-day operations at Justice, whereas Reno functioned as more of a figurehead who lost her compass when she lost Gorelick in early 1997. However, Gorelick’s added value was her political acumen. For example, when the Republicans began to attack Clinton’s judicial appointments as soft on crime – prior to the 1996 election – Gorelick set up a "war room" similar to the Clinton "war room" of the 1992 election. Her entire purpose was to control the news cycle and bolster the images of the liberal judges and lawyers in Clinton’s roster. In many ways, Gorelick is every bit as slick as her boss.

Gorelick’s seemingly inappropriate functions outraged some commentators, such as Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal Foundation. Levin pondered "[p]recisely what . . . the lawyers assigned to the Justice ‘war room’ [were] doing, and with whom [were] they at ‘war’?" At the same time, Levin also noted that "Mrs. Gorelick's former law firm -Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin – [was] representing Craig Livingstone, the man at the center of the [Clinton] Filegate scandal [being investigated by the Justice Department]." Not surprisingly, Gorelick, who was effectively running Justice at the time, did not recuse herself.

Jamie Gorelick wants to finally emerge from the shadow of Janet Reno, not merely as the de facto Attorney General, but as the actual attorney general of the United States. Her outrageous conflict of interest as a Commissioner of the 9/11 panel is just par for the course, and her keen political skills will enable her to deflect criticism and keep her position – despite the strong evidence that she should, in fact, step down as a Commissioner and be sworn-in as a witness. A former Democrat staffer recently stated that Gorelick is on the commission for one reason – and it isn’t for her legal mind. Gorelick is on the Commission "to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno."

Her reward for doing her job well. . . the powerful position she has coveted for seven years.



TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; gorelick
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1 posted on 06/02/2004 1:05:47 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: jmstein7

ping


2 posted on 06/02/2004 1:06:24 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

Hey, hey! I see he got a publisher! Jonathan ran this by us a few days ago for suggestions. My suggestion? Give the link to your friends or print it out. Good reading.


3 posted on 06/02/2004 1:12:12 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: kattracks

once again,
good morning!
if the Lord wills come november we will not have to worry about this POS.
however freepers never forget the names of those lurking for years waiting to fill their nefarious plots.


4 posted on 06/02/2004 1:21:48 AM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)
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To: kattracks

bttt


5 posted on 06/02/2004 1:25:52 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: kattracks
I still don't understand why she was not forced to testify before the 9/11 commission. Even if she was on the panel.

This woman has had her hands in so many coverups it would make your head spin - remember TWA Flight 800 - she headed the investigation and silenced everyone that mattered.

Also, in my own opinion, she is most responsible for 9/11. She is the one who built the "wall" so the FBI, CIA and others could not talk and share information.

Now, what can we do to expose her and see she never makes it to the office she desires?

6 posted on 06/02/2004 1:33:06 AM PDT by AnimalLover
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To: AnimalLover

Vote for Presidednt Bush and get EVERYONE you possbly can to do so as well.


7 posted on 06/02/2004 1:34:22 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: kattracks

You dynamo, you! You sure work hard! God bless you, kattracks.


8 posted on 06/02/2004 1:51:08 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Overcoming Wrestless Leg Syndrome. Profile updated last Friday)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Thank you.


9 posted on 06/02/2004 1:51:49 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: alpha-8-25-02

Backhoe's Gorelick links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts


10 posted on 06/02/2004 1:52:01 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Overcoming Wrestless Leg Syndrome. Profile updated last Friday)
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To: BOBWADE; Mrs Zip

ping


11 posted on 06/02/2004 2:04:05 AM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 42% of americans)
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To: kattracks
If Gorelick does get the post, this is what the "intelligence wall" will resemble shortly:

And that name, I get physically ill when I hear that name...

12 posted on 06/02/2004 2:27:21 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ScaniaBoy; Cooter; eyespysomething; B4Ranch; Alamo-Girl; Triple; MJY1288; potlatch; Shermy; ...
OKC-911 CONNECTION ALERT. Please let me know by freepmail if you want to be taken off this list. Thanks.

We know what you did last decade, Jamie.

13 posted on 06/02/2004 3:55:08 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Stop the war. ********** NUKE EM NOW !)
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To: kattracks

Wonderful. Now my eyelid is twitching uncontrollably.

Prairie


14 posted on 06/02/2004 6:07:43 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (The RATS must turn to a cheating, lying, perjurist/rapist to try to save their candidate. Bwahahaha!)
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To: kattracks

This woman sold out America. Why should she be considered for anything but treason?


15 posted on 06/02/2004 6:08:03 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

THANKYOU I'VE SEEN IT.
as usual it has not grown legs,we must not forget the nefarious cast of characters.if you or i are at these keybords on our death beds and this pos shows daylight with our last dieing keystroke remind all.


16 posted on 06/02/2004 6:37:10 AM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)
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To: kattracks
great post/article

This guy Stein rocks.

Perhaps we need a law - nobody connected to BCCI in any way can serve in government.

17 posted on 06/02/2004 7:55:24 AM PDT by Triple (All forms of socialism deny individuals the right to the fruits of their labor)
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To: kattracks
As this article lays out, Gorelick was one of the powers behind the throne of the corrupt and evil clintons.

She's dangerous in any capacity.

18 posted on 06/02/2004 8:15:37 AM PDT by Gritty ("The only thing worse than the amoral use of force is the failure to act when it is right-VD Hanson)
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To: kattracks

If Kerry wins and puts Gorelick in as AG with a Democrat Senate, then I will move into Alec Baldwin's French villa.


19 posted on 06/02/2004 8:23:39 AM PDT by montag813 ("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: jmstein7

Congrats for getting published! I was reading this article and thinking, WHERE did I read this before? Then it hit me when I saw who wrote it!


20 posted on 06/02/2004 8:33:45 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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