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| She's back: Gorelick on Obama's FBI Shortlist! | ||
| 2011-03-24 | ||
Gorelick served as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) when the government-sponsored enterprise began bundling subprime loans into securitized financial instruments. Prior to that, she served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department under then-Attorney General Janet Reno from 1994 to 1997. But Gorelick is perhaps best known for her 1995 memo, written when she was deputy attorney general, that later became known as "Gorelick's Wall," a policy prescription limiting the flow of information between intelligence gatherers and criminal investigators that some believe helped allow the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to go unchallenged.
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| Posted by:Beavis |
| #16 It's an academic thing*: collegiality is much more important than competence. *Yea, I know---he never. Doesn't mean he doesn't wants too. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-24 16:54 |
| #15 She's probably on the list just to make the other candidates look better. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-03-24 16:44 |
| #14 Bubba, name for me a "good Democrat"? |
| Posted by: Jefferson 2011-03-24 13:45 |
| #13 One should have little doubt left that BHO is trying to take down the country by surrounding himself with complete incompetents. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-24 12:31 |
| #12 While we're suing her to recover the $25 mil in fraudulently obtained bonuses at Fannie Mae, we can claw back Rahmbo's boodle too... |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-03-24 11:47 |
| #11 Gentlemen, Believe it or not there are good Democrats and bad Democrats. This lady is BAD to the bone. Calling her a walking catastrophe is being generous. She is the poster child for how incestuous the democratic party has become, constantly recycling failures and incompetent boobs into positions of importance. What do we see next, Kathy Sheehan as Hillary's replacement at Secretary of State? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-03-24 10:30 |
| #10 Head Fake |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-03-24 09:37 |
| #9 Think a Donk Senator, in a possible toss-up state will look at 2012 and say: "I'd LOVE to have ads circulating showing me voting for this POS next year"? Don't underestimate the toxicity of her history. My take - she won't be, but the spotlight on her would let an asshat like Holder or one of O's other racialists sneak through |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-24 08:56 |
| #8 Only the Senate needs to confirm. With the questioning rules under the rule of the Donks, there won't be time for proper follow up questions. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2011-03-24 06:52 |
| #7 Did somebody mix up stakes and silver bullets again? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-03-24 01:51 |
| #6 Oh. I thought this was about the FBI investigating her. Silly me... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-03-24 01:41 |
| #5 if the Republicans don't stop this then the FBI will become one step behind HHS |
| Posted by: jack salami 2011-03-24 01:31 |
| #4 She was instrumental in the inability of good people to stop the 9-11 attacks, then she was on the very commission that investigated it. She is one of the prime examples of the depth of the rot that has permeated through the Federal government to its core. In order to fix this in an orderly way and in accordance with law, the Congress will have to be changed over. Outside people with no allegiance to the present parties in power will have to first be elected. The present congress cannot reform itself. Once Congress is reformed, then it can start overhauling the Federal Govt. It is a huge task, and I do not know if we can do it before an economic collapse. This tentative nomination makes me sick to my core. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-03-24 00:37 |
| #3 I'd sooner see Bill Ayers - or OJ Simpson - or Peewee Herman - or even Charlie Manson as FBI Director, rather than this walking catastrophe. How about Anna Chapman????? |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2011-03-23 23:27 |
| #2 If this doesn't make you understand that Hussien is the enemy of America, you're head is stuck all the way up where the light don't shine. |
| Posted by: wr 2011-03-23 22:18 |
| #1 *** cough *** cough *** IS THAT YOU, JAIME *** cough ***... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-23 22:08 |