She was suggested by Daschle.
IIRC all the congressional leadership was asked to make suggestions to the President for the commission. Of course Gorelick was there for just one purpose - to belittle Dr. Rice and the rest of the repubs - including Ashcroft - but they backed off real quick when Ashcroft produced the "wall" memo from Gorelick's office.
I still think that woman has a lot of explaining to do - and maybe we'll never know the depth of her deceipt and destruction .. but she will have a higher authority to answer to.
gorelick was one of the main reasons that different intelligence agencies were unable to share intel with one another. these clinton people acted more like communist operatives than Americans.