Jamie Gorelick Who ‘Helped to Bring us 9/11 AND Housing Collapse’ Is On Short List to Lead FBI
by Jeff DunetzBarack Obama really knows how to pick them. It’s not often that one person plays key roles in two — count ‘em, two — trillion-dollar disasters but Jamie Gorelick is one. She helped to bring us 9/11 and the collapse of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Ms. Gorelick is on the presidental short list to be the head of the FBI.
As Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997 Jamie Gorelick wrote the memo that created the now infamous “Gorelick Wall.” A 1995 memo she wrote, stated explicitly that they would “go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.” These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations. It set a procedure where various intelligence operations could not share information with each other.
Jamie Gorelick’s wall barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, already in custody on an immigration violation shortly before 9/11.
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a prophetic memo to headquarters about the wall
‘Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why we were not more effective in throwing every resource we had at certain problems…..especially since the biggest threat to us UBL [Usama bin Laden], is getting the most protection.
Here’s another “fun” Jamie Gorelick story. She was a member of the 9/11 commission but did not share her “wall memo” with anyone until, Attorney General John Ashcroft was blasted for the “wall” while he was testifying before the 9/11 commission and said:
“Although you understand the debilitating impact of the wall, I cannot imagine that the commission knew about this memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review,” he said. “Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this commission.”
OOPS! Hey She forgot to share that memo. I am sure she is sorry.
Gorelick’s “wall” blocked America’s view just when it needed its vision to stop the worst terrorist attack ever on our shores. But that was her encore. Before that she worked on destroying the economy.
Gorelick was appointed the Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae and served in the role from 1997 to 2003. During that six-year period, she earned over $26 million. During her tenure, Fannie suffered a $10 billion accounting scandal, because of falsified transaction. These bogus tranactions helped FNMA hit earnings targets for 1998, which triggered bonuses for top executives including nearly $800,000 to Gorelick
During Gorelick’s tenure Fannie Mae began to bundle subprime loans into securitized financial instruments.
In 2001, Gorelick made the annoucement that Fannie was buying subprime loans encouraged by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and bundling them as securitized financial instruments. Securities made from bundles of guaranteed mortgages were to contribute to the economic collapse in 2008. (H/T CNSNews)
“Fannie Mae will buy CRA loans from lenders’ portfolios; we’ll package them into securities; we’ll purchase CRA mortgages at the point of origination; and we’ll create customized CRA-targeted securities,” she said in 2001. “This expanded approach has improved liquidity in the secondary market for CRA product, and has helped our lenders leverage even more CRA lending. Lenders now have the flexibility to use their own, customized loan products.”
In remarks before the American Bankers Association on Oct. 30, 2000, Gorelick explicitly how the procress would work and what Fannie Mae would do to make it feasible for banks to lend to low-income applicants.
“We will take CRA loans off your hands–we will buy them from your portfolios, or package them into securities–so you have fresh cash to make more CRA loans,” she said. “Some people have assumed we don’t buy tough loans. Let me correct that misimpression right now. We want your CRA loans because they help us meet our housing goals.”
And there’s more. Remember those “Friends of Angelo” VIP loans given by the now bankrupt Countrywide Savings that got Chris Dodd in trouble because they were a major conflict of interest? Jamie Gorelick received one of those “conflict of interest loans” while she was Vice-Chair of Fannie Mae. According to a letter by Congressman Issa:
Gorelick not only helped to close America’s eyes to the coming of the 9/11 attacks, and hid her involvement from the 9/11 commission she served Prior to that, Gorelick served Fannie Mae as Vice-transactions when it fudged so top executives (Gorelick included) could get a hefty bonus and it started offering the product that almost brought down the economy. But at least she got some nice “Frends of Angelo” loans from Countrywide Savings out of it.
This is the person that Obama wants to run the FBI ?
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I think that if we truly knew the extent of this woman's involvement in the undermining of America's national security at multiple levels, she would be dragged up the gallows and sent straight to hell.
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She should've been in jail years ago.
Obama will chose her in order to acheive his objective. = "Destroy America and everything for which it stands."
The Majority of Americans SUCK, they said a long time ago "Here, take care of my kids, take care of my retirement (S.S.), take care of my Health, etc, etc. People have just opened their arms to embrace the slave master (Government). It's amazing that so many people love Government and want it to take care of them or if they don't like something they want the Government to fix it (Seat Belts, Guns, Kids Car seats, etc). Why do people want the Government to regulate everything? That is not freedom! People care more about "American Idol" than our Country and our Future and our Freedoms. Have you seen how much we owe now? 15 Trillion dollars, Obama and the Libs have spent 5 Trillion dollars since 2009 and it's unsustainable! If you love America you should at least pay attention to politics every once in a while and contact your Senators, etc and make sure you vote for the right people. Right now we have the GOVERNMENT THAT WE DESERVE!
Head of the FBI,thee FBI??????? this has to be a joke?Right,a joke?
This really is the end of civilized society!
RATS playing musical chairs in Washington.
With Jamie Gorelick, corruption begets corruption, and the cycle continues! Instead of being rewarded with yet another cushy paying position, Gorelick should be put on a raft, and set adrift in the Atlantic.
As with Obama's other appointments–Van Jones, Sotomayor, Kagan, Holder, et al ad nauseum–they are rubber stamps of him.
It is becoming clear, too, that Obama has little interest in foreign policy issues; his focus was and is domestic policies that can wreck the US economy and way of life.
No, she passed the smell test. You know how you don't smell what your used to. Which brings me to ask, how can one become a Kiwi?
This would be the freaking last straw for the law enforcement community….
These wealthy Republicans like Jamie Gorelick are only interested in gaming the system so they can become even richer. They don't care about anyone else but themselves.
"Wait. What? Jamie Gorelick is a Democrat? Well why isn't she being appropriately tarred and feathered by liberal protesters who demonize the rich who take advantage of their wealth and position," he asked rhetorically.
In the first year of his Presidency, I was under the impression that his bumbling mistakes were a result of not actually ever having a job or being in a leadership role. Anyone can slip up and not check that one of your employees is a communist and 9-11 truther. But as time has gone along and the mistakes continue to pile up, I am beginning to fell like they are actually not mistakes, but calculated moves on their part. I mean really, how can anyone explain appointing some like Gorelick to head the FBI. No one can actually be that stupid.
No, right now, we are living the joke. And he's in the White House.
Of course…. she single handily destroyed our economy so what else would chairman "O" do but reward her. It just shows us what their goal is…..
I find it amazing that this president can always find a way to make the worst possible choice.
I hope Ms. Gorelick's nomination gets stalled in the senate.
And remember whats worse. If she does get appointed, it's a 10 year term. She'll be director until the next president serves 8 years. So while Obama is gone, this choice will still be destroying America.
Well, clearly she hasn't risen to the level of her incompetence yet. That means she may soon be running for President.
If she is appointed to the position and confirmed that should leave absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that Obama is hell bent on destroying this country. Of course the liberal loons, lacking a functional mind will think that is just great. What a mess.
There has to be a congressional hearing for such an appointment, correct? If so, I don't see how she could be approved, and further, I don't see how she would subject herself to the public humiliation of this information being aired on TV (well, not the networks, but somewhere).
I can't wait for the congressional confirmation hearings.
Shocking predictions from 50 years ago.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqXVYTKKMec” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqXVYTKKMec
It must be an April Fools joke. Either that, or it's just evidence of how many fools are in Washington.
My own opinion is she's an idiot with the right connections and the right credentials. But still, simply an idiot.
Pinhead Progressive: CHECK
Destructive to American interests: CHECK
Congratulations, you're well qualified as an Obama appointment!
Let's hope the republicans can man up to the challenge.
How do you STOP that thing from happening? We are either witnessing what is either becoming a comedy of errors or a typical case of insanes running the asylum.
Obama, like most men, is what he is, as well as a creature of habit. He cannot escape it. An ideological modus operandi that obtains in one part of his world view surely extends to other parts. Gorelick fits right in and we should do all we can to STOP it. These people don't belong in a position of authority and it's proven time and time again that none of them can carry out the law responsibly and fairly. President Present is a evil bastard who needs to be destroyed. He is a empty suit and a fraud. A liar and a hypocrite. A Van Jones Marxist. It's astounding the evidence we have on this tyrant and yet he remains President Present.
This is serious, is there anything anyone can do? It goes to the Senate for hearings, I suppose. I remember being floored when she was part of the post 9/11 hearings. We are witnessing a piecemeal sabotaging of the thinnest lines of defense.
Roger that. The fact that Obama was elected at all is a testament to the negligence of the media to do their job and properly vet the poseur. The fact that he's still in office is a testament to the lack of spine in most Republicans in DC today.
Don't you really think all these things will be off limits in the confirmation hearing? How's that reduction in the debt and size of government going for us?
I know the expertise it takes for my job. I could not do a job in another completely different industry with any high level of competence, what with all the specialized knowledge it takes to do a job well. How does one go from being a Deputy Attorney General (lawyer) to be the Vice Chairman of Fannie (one of the largest financial institutions in the country), to then go to being the head of the FBI (law enforcement)??????
I smell a recess appointment.
Why does this NOT freak'in surprise me? Obama would probably appoint Usama Bin Laden the muslim czar if only he could find him.
Because half this country and a good majority of the media are so flipp'in in love with this douchebag, nothing he does is ever wrong in their eyes.
has she failed to pay income taxes? That's another Obama qualifyer.
Obama clearly picks by loyalty to his socialist ideology, not competence. Why would anyone expect anything else. Two years his presidency has shown Americans exactly what we don't want and cannot have as a president. Thanks for the heads up, O.
you're a softy. I wouldn't even give her a raft.
I lost you at men…..
but picked up at creature….
ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME?
The stall is not enough; it should be a simple case of No Pasaran.
I don't know why anyone of us on here are the least bit surprised. It's only the "most corrupted' that gets on "the list of possibles" to hold any position of power in the administration. Honestly, it seems the woman on the left are even more vindictive in their character then some of these men.This has SOROS name written all over-it, he plays chess with that evil thinking.
How soon we forget the Clintons and their little scandal with FBI files. Maybe BO wishes to have the same access to certain files to blackmail individuals? The Clintons did it. With gore-lick in the director's chair, it would be so much easier to access everything on anyone who threatens the brat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_file...
I don't see how her intent to keep intelligience from being shared would be off limits when being considered as head of an intelligience organization. But its hard to have faith in anyone anymore.
I'm just wondering what kind of crime ring the feds are going to set up… with gorelick in crimes solving and holder in prosecution it'll be keystone cops. What a joke!
Thanks for the chuckle. All morning long I've been working on this new SP-1 Windows Update download for Windows 7 and between that and reading this blog has caused me to nearly pull out all my hair. Finally, finally….after running the download troubleshooter it allowed me to complete the Install and reboot. Grrrrh.
"People oughta stay out of our business." – Thomas Kean of the 9-11 Commission.
F*ck you, 9-11 is our business!
This is clearly the result of the lame stream media. If they had done their job and simply reported the disaster of this tool she wouldn't be in this possible post. This entire democRAT generation is too stupid and corrupt to hold any positions of power. The democRATS in the media too.
Remember it was during Slick Willie's misadministration. So it is not what one knows rather it is which one does the best Monica lewinsky, and gore-lick does have that look about her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_file...
Just a link to show how BO copies the Clintons.
The notebook I'm using right now, is running on Vista…
I got a download this morning and it'll be a few more days before I get the new bugs out….
I think she's a cunning, anti-American Marxist with connections and credentials.
I think it has more to do with all the crimes 0bama has commited. They are endless. GoreLICK WILL be given the postion in order to suppress and deny the American people the real truth behind the most lying, corrupt and inept president in history. Hell, I'd even bet republicans will back her for the sole reason of keeping order over the masses. For if 0bama's crimes were known and investigations were to begin the left would burn the country to the ground. That I can promise.
It will be blackmail heaven with access to the FBI files on all sorts of rich, famous, influential people and politicos.
Along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
If she were cunning she wouldn't be a Marxist. It's obviously an ideological dead end. Idiot.
Is this a sick joke? Why don't we just appoint Osama Bin Ladin as the director.
The preschoolers are loose on the Bachmann postings. Might want to take a look. Did what I could.
The preschoolers are loose on the Bachmann postings. Might want to have a look. Did what I could.
Thanks for warning. These fools are like roachs when the lights are out.
Give up your guns.
I know this going to bring on a sh!t storm, but what happened to men running things. Is obama trying to fill a quota? Hillary, Sota-Myor, Kagen, too many skirts. Why can't we find good men to deal with women hating terrorists? I feel his touchy feely, equal rights agenda is ludicris. Just sayin.
All these women in high places but no room for Sarah. HUH?
She should not be under consideration.
She should be under indictment
You know…..I hate it when you're right.
The hearings will be stacked with lefties. Humiliation? They have no shame at all. They are committed and driven.
We got to keep pressures bearing on the politicians on both sides of the isle.
Over the many decades the left has been infiltrating the DNC they managed to stack hearings and committees to efffect certain outcomes. Ask the National Rifle Association and how gun control was "heard in "committees" for decades.
If we don't let the politicians know we are watching, this slimy lizard bitch will be slipped in! RINOs will go along, under YouHaveToLookAtItTHIS WAY: She screwed up TWICE really badly so won't screw up again.That's how RINOs think.
We don't have to look at it their way.
We don't need guns, if we leave these idiots alone long enough they will destroy themselves.
Not a chance. Anyone blocking her confirmation will be superceding women's rights on this prestigous occassion of……….(Fill in the rest)
The only saving grace is that she isn't a wise latina or a closest lesbian like those other two American hating reprobates who got through the Senate. If they can get past the Senate she can. The RINO"S will cave again.
Message 1 of 3. The article does not do justice to the full extend of the damage Jamie Gorelick has done to America. For instance, she was heavily involved with Ruby Ridge and the murder of Randy Weaver's wife. Dear 'ol Jamie is the person who wrote the shoot on sight rules of engagement that the FBI snipers were given. The more experienced snipers refused to follow those rules and basically said…"are you kidding." But the junior most sniper followed orders and Mrs. Weaver died becasue of it. Dear 'ol Jamie never had her hand slapped for this gross error.
Next of course is the infamous 1995 memo that laid the ground work for missing the 9/11 plot. You have to ask yourself what other plans/plots were also missing and how many sleeper cells came in the US during that time frame because the criminal side of the FBI was not talking to the intel side…or the CIA.
That's the plan.
Message 2 of 3. Then with NO experience in real estate finance or real estate law she jumps to the top of Fannie Mae. But hey, she had no experience to qualify her to establish rules of engagement for FBI snipers but that did not stop her. So it is no surprise that Fannie Mae helped create the economic bubble that popped and led to the recession/depression we are now dealing with.
Oh yeah, she had her ugly face on the news back on July 16, 2010, during a photo op with Dear Leader at the White House….and the CEO of British Petroleum. Yep, you got it. After the Gulf oil spill BP hired her as its lead cousnel to deal with the government. She was with the CEO at the White House for a meeting with Comrade O and his seniormost henchmen. And we all know how well that turned out…and the destruction of US oil drilling in the Gulf.
Msg 3 of 3 Yep, Jamie is well qualified to be the head of the FBI. Comrade O's selection of her for that position is kind of like Hitler selecting a chicken farmer…Himmler…to be the head of the Gestapo. Not very bright…but she will carry out orders……now lets see……where is she going to build the camps for all of us pesty conservatives and when is she going to start ordering cans of Zyklon B to assist in the final solution?
More proof positive that Obama is actively trying to destroy the infrastructure of this country and bring it to its knees.
Does the Senate have to consent to this appointment, if so,…….
there will more than likely be some Republicans that will vote in favor of Wall Girl.
So why are we,………….??????
Cun'-ning: 1) having or showing skill in achieving ones ends by deceit or evasion.
I fail to see how Marxism and cunning are mutually exclusive. In fact, it seems to me that a successful Marxist – one who succeeds in moving a nation towards Marxism – must by definition be cunning, since it is completely against human nature to submit ones liberty to the schemes of totalitarians.
Jamie Gorelick has been working her lies and deceit behind the scenes at the highest levels of bureaucracy for going on two decades. She has weakened this nation for the purpose of empowering Leftists and undermining justice as well as our financial and governmental infrastructure.
That's cunning. Marxism may be an ideological dead end, but when it gains power, people die before Marxism does.
Jamie Gorelick should have been ANSWERING questions to the 9-11 commission, not asking them!
This attempted appointment is about keeping SECRETS.
JOHN BOEHNER – You and Darryl ISSA have COMPLETE and UNHINDERED AUTHORITY, which was afforded you by the Citizens of this country, to PUT AN END TO THIS GARBAGE. Sir, we know the Democrats are as corrupt as it can get. Your Party has been afforded one more chance to do the RIGHT thing. Your inaction, the both of you, is like turning up the heat on an already boiling pressure cooker. This country will not withstand obfuscation and business as usual from you folks and it will blow if you do not act and act NOW.
Enough is Enough.
Then it is time for an extended gathering in Washington D.C.
This one has to be the straw, it just has to be. If this goes forward, then there is no turning back.
The HOUSE can defund but more importantly it can refuse to fund the entire executive branch going forward. Some refer to this as a "shutdown" and portray i as a bad thing, but indeed it is the check and balance that WE THE PEOPLE hold over the entire federal government. Time to exercise that power.
As a congressman I would bring up these subjects in gory detail. Let her actions incrminate her to being denied the post of FBI cheif
I do believe that Barry has run out of Alinskys and true die hard communists like Van Jones to run his government. Now he is stuck with losers from previous administrations. The bigger the mess they made, the better their chances to ruin something new.
The f'ing FBI – OMG unbelievable.
She's a useful idiot at that.
We don't need any more evidence of that. It's written on the wall.
This is unbelievable. How can this disgusting excuse for a human being not be in jail? How can she look at herself in the mirror, knowing the death and destruction she helped to bring about. How can she keep millions in fruadulent bonusses knowing she helped cause the financial destruction of so many families. There are very few people in this world I truly hate, but she makes the list easily.
Marxist leaders are cunning. Marxist followers are useful idiots.
especially if that's all you hang out with
unfortunately we will have to come in and clean up the mess.
none of the networks will carry it
repubs will try to look like they're fair
maybe they are….
…hoping we'll accept their real choice?
Now, class, see what could happen if a radical Marxist were ever elected to the office of President? He would hire people like Cass Sustein, Van Jones, John Holdren, Harold Koh, Mark Lloyd, Anita Dunn. But, that could never really happen…….
I used to think bubba kust needed a little strange from time to time, but Clearly, his appetite for sexual perversion knows absolutely no bounds!
Of course they can but to deny the calculated moves to cripple this nation would be niave at best, and foolish at worst.
It's not even Pres_dent barry anymore, it's jarrett and her merry band of feminists who take their orders from soros – too much evidence to deny the reality that stares us in the face every da** day
Just when you think that 'bottom of the barrel' has run dry they drag up yet another one.
As Rush Limbaugh likes to state. Failure is a resume enhancement if your a Democrat.
Screw a no-fly zone, air drop THIS woman into Libya. If she does to that country even half the damage she's done to ours, they're toast!
"She'll be director until the next president serves
84 years."Fixed that for you.
While somewhat correct, relax. Mrs. Palin will serve 8 years.
Sorry, Ed, have to disagree with you there. Marxism, as a tenet, is for dead end thinking, but for those Machiavellian enough to USE it, since it was invented to be USED, have found it perfect for their needs. It is actually a wonderful system, hardly a speck of problems. Unless, of course, you're not in charge, or part of the administration that is. Then it's hell on earth, because it cares nothing for the individual, and everything for the state, which is made up of ghostly souls for a population, and hateful, selfish, self-aggrandizing, evil egoturds, who decided it is all about them, or else. But for the cherry on top, life is SWEEEEET.
You have to, or she'd just swim back ashore when you threw her into the water. Tie her to the raft, however, and get her in the right tide….maybe Hugo can find something to do with a used raft.
the same way one becomes president with zippo experience and no marketable abilities outside of knowing how to vote present
Failure is always rewarded in Washington as long as you have friends in the right places. This is why you never give government employees the right to unionize as all you are doing is assuring corruption and no one ever losing their jobs.
He's not. He's not in charge. Center for American Progress is running the show. Obama takes vacations, plays golf, and reads the teleprompter. Have you seen him offer the slightest evidence of understanding a single concept he's discussed? Ever seen even a glimmer of cognizance, recognition, deep relationship with, or even a passing knowledge of anything that's NOT some brain dead repeatable Marxist philosophy? It's all rote, or he's lost. He hasn't got two brain cells to rub together, to paraphrase Dickens, I think it was.
What is forgotten that Tom Daisha appointed Jamie Gorelick to the 9-11 commission in order to head off any examination of the impact that the Gorelick Wall memo had on intelligence-gathering capability prior to the attacks. Fortunately, Attone General John Ashcroft brought attention to the memo and the so-call Gorelick Wall in his testimony before the commission. So, even in this early instance during the Global War on Terror, partisan politics trumped the truth.
No, Sandy Berger was unavailable.
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