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? 

[jwparkerjr]

I think your suspicions on why the ‘wall’ came to be are spot on. I think it might have gone ever deeper, like a preemptive strike to make sure NOTHING could be used to put two and two together and swerve into some illegal activity involving people in high places.

What a thorn in the flesh of America this lady, and dozens of other ‘public servants’, has been. Actually, she’s far beyond thorn in the flesh and is off the scale, somewhere well above boil on the butt.

[Desdemona]

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

Amen! Some people think corporate behavior is pure free enterprise in action, but an oligarchy of elitists on boards of directors works to keep executive salaries ridiculously high, even when companies are stagnating or losing money. Also, boards nowadays have to be "diverse" and have token women or minorities, whether they are qualified or not.

I would add "concentrating" power to that, but not as a blanket statement.

Granted, I work almost directly for some of the most powerful people in a mid-sized midwestern city, the patterns are the same where ever a board happens to be - there are those in power who don't give a darn who they step on to get ahead and then there are those who go out of their way to help others. And on each side they tend to congregate with each other, be on each other's boards, etc. These are the people they know (time to widen circles, IMO). Please, don't paint absolutely all wealthy and powerful people with the same brush because they are not all alike and there are some that are actually very generous and quite principled.

Gorelick, OTOH, belongs in federal prison for treason, stealing, etc., for the rest of her life after her assets are seized and used to help settle the debt she foisted on us.

[jwparkerjr]

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.

It will all come out someday, probably after the usefulness of whomever it is they have the goods on is used up. The sad thing is that they will use the info to pull the strings for 16 plus years then spill the beans when the info is no longer useful to control events.

[Charles Martel]

Gorelick has told friends that she would seriously consider an offer some day to serve as defense secretary ...

Wow. I'll just say that such a scenario would be unacceptable, and leave it at that.

[jwparkerjr]

re: and financially stripped bare.

Please refrain from using the ‘bare’ with reference to this woman. It takes me two hours of humming “It’s A Small World After All” to get the images out of my mind. I’m weak and my mind immediately skips to the worst possible visions of whatever I read, see or hear.

[lionheart 247365]

You mean like having a picture of your boss with his favorite hen ?? I agree , this Att. Gen and Justice dept. is in the tank .

[KAUAIBOUND]

The timing of the imposition of the “wall” fits, doesn’t it? If this had been a policy position of the Clinton DOJ, why wouldn’t it have been put in place in 1993, say following the first WTC bombing, which was dealt with as a law enforcement issue?

[neverdem]

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[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Safetgiver]

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.....So was Freddy Mac, Fanny Mae and the rest of the Democrat fundraiser schemes.

[GOPJ]

ping

[GOPJ]

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.

[Wil H]

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

The Wall was constructed by Gorelick to protect clinton from the ongoing investigations into his own malfeasance.

[Safetgiver]

While it’s probably true that she was appointed to Fannie Mae as a reward, it wasn’t for the 911 commission. She was on the board before 911 happened. It was probably a reward for protecting Clinton with the wall......Ding, Ding, Ding. All the DNC foreign donations were to be covered up, not investigated and relegated to the hole of obscurity. Remember no legal controlling authority?

[eleni121]

Gorelick: evil conniving mistress of satan

[okie01]

[Gorelick] 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.

Well, didn't Ms. Jamie earn a big payday by serving on the 9/11 Commission...failing to call herself as a witness and otherwise shoveling $hit in the federal mushroom farm?

The Clintons wanted her to be well-paid, after all.

[GOPJ]

The destruction of Freddie and Fannie was timed well. Either they’d be a panic and Bush would give them what they wanted, or Freddie and Fannie could be used to take down a Republican. Sarah changed the equation... she and McCain became the changers who would throw out corruption. This will get interesting.

[Travis McGee]

Ping!

[Joya]

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”- Ephesians 4:29

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for the ping, neverdem.

Jamie Gorelick is in the 1st deck of cards of domestic enemy women in the USA in my mind. She ranks right up there with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.

Outstanding thread. Thanks to all linkers/researchers/educators/posters.

Do “independents” need ANOTHER EXAMPLE of The Democrat Crime Syndicate? How much damage can one criminal do and go unscathed? She has to rank near the top in the history of this country.

Thanks to all like-minded lurkers reading this thread.

A look back at SOME of her damage discussed on this thread...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120317/posts