OMG Jamie Gorelick Attorney general? Fannie Mae and the Sept. 11 commission

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/us/politics/08gorelick.html


Used to work as: Vice chairwoman at Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage lender, where she was paid a reported $25.6 million in salary and other compensation from 1998 to 2003. She went on to join the Washington law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr as a partner, where she has represented a range of clients, including Duke University in defending claims brought against it by some of its lacrosse players in a highly publicized rape investigation. She was a Democratic appointee on the 10-member commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.

Carries as baggage: Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from the Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her and said critics were distorting her record. The criticism grew so heated that the F.B.I. investigated a death threat against her family, and President Bush had to intervene personally to stop the Justice Department from releasing sealed reports involving her. Some conservative bloggers have already begun trying to derail Ms. Gorelick’s possible nomination as attorney general, pointing to her experiences at both Fannie Mae and the Sept. 11 commission.

[bluestateguy]

1. Nominating her is just asking for trouble

Granholm is a safer pick.

[razorman]

2. I agree. Gorelick is radioactive.

Obama will not need the extra static that her nomination will generate.

[blue_onyx]

10. Granholm is a safer pick but we need her in Michigan

Maybe Janet Napolitano? I think it will be Granholm though. She played Palin during Biden's practice debate and was personally invited by the campaign to attend the last presidential debate. Granholm is also on Obama's economic advisory team. She had a prominent seat at Obama's economic meeting last week....she was next to Biden (who was next to Obama). She also stood behind right behind Obama at his first press conference. So I think Granholm will have a position in the administration and Attorney General makes the most sense.

[bluesmail]

3. Heck uv a job, Jamie. And as an avid reader of politics----

no thank you. You are a disappointment to tens of thousands. Goodbye

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Thanks but no thanks

Sen. Whitehouse or even Patrick Fitzgerald would be great.
Justice needs a through housecleaning and she is not the one to do it.

[aquart]

9. Stop pulling people out of the Senate.

Although I'd go with Fitzgerald. Know any Democrats who could do the job? (Other than Senator Whitehouse?)

[bdamomma]

12. hey ichingcarpenter!!

two good choices you have there. Fitzgerald would be a good choice.:hi:

[creeksneakers2]

5. Gorelick didn't create any wall

That's all RW BS. Its true that people throughout the bureaucracy mistakenly believed there was a wall. That's not Gorelick's fault.

Fannie Mae is just guilt by association, unless they can find something specific Gorelick did herself.

If Obama wants to nominate her he should. We won this election because we didn't back down from RW BS.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

6. Jamie Gorelick?! Laughing out fucken loud.

Ditch this nother Bitch. No Thank U.

[ancient_nomad]

7. Say it isn't so! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

8. What were you expecting? Change?

:rofl:

[benEzra]

11. Not to mention she is a pro-censorship, Surveillance Nation type in the mold of Alberto Gonzales.

Lest we forget:

http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/hw.crypto.storm.warning.071496.article

...a top Justice Department lawyer slammed the Net for "transmitting
child pornography into our homes" and for allowing hackers to possibly
"shut down the banking system."

Jamie Gorelick, the US deputy attorney general, also expanded the
administration's plan to ban the domestic use of strong encryption,
like Pretty Good Privacy, that the spooks can't crack.

"There is a need for access to pursuant to
court orders for access to keys," Gorelick said at a conference
sponsored by the Freedom Forum.

"One of our most formidable challenges is to deal with the issue of
encryption. What happens when an employee of a company runs off with
information and it is encrypted? What happens when someone dies and
his files ? What happens when you lose your key?"
Gorelick asked.

This goes beyond Attorney General Janet Reno's recent calls for
domestic key escrow and further than the "Clipper III" white paper the
Clinton administration released in May, which was intended to create a
new government-run identity-checking system allowing the Feds access
to the secret keys of US users.

(more at link)

Gorelick as AG wouldn't be change, she'd be more of the same Surveillance Nation crap the Bush administration has been pushing, IMO.