It’s not often that one person plays key roles in two — count ‘em, two — trillion-dollar disasters. Welcome, my friends, to the world of well-connected Democrat Jamie Gorelick.
It’s no mean feat to spring from toadstool to toadstool in quite the way Gorelick has done. She came to our attention first for having labored to build a wall between foreign intelligence gathering communities and criminal investigative bodies – the so-called “Gorelick wall” – whose breadth explicitly exceeded that separation required by FISA, and whose impact “specifically impeded the (pre-9/11) investigation into (20th hijacker) Zacarias Moussaoui”.
Having done so, she managed to get herself selected to the 9/11 commission investigating, in part, how such a massive intelligence failure could have occured. Thence to the Vice Chairmanship of Fannie Mae, a position for which – lacking any financial experience – she was uniquely unqualified. Although she did manage to earn $26 million over six years at the mortgage lender. Which is by anyone’s definition, damn fine work, if you can get it.
Work that takes executive experience, Washington-style.
And the best news of all is that she is now a member of the Duke University’s legal defense team fighting allegations by former lacrosse team members that the school contributed to their persecution by Michael Nifong, the disgraced former Durham district attorney. Which fact probably – if perversely – guarantees a just outcome in the case, if prior performance is any guarantee of future results.
All of this should set the Harvard-educated lawyer up perfectly for a cabinet-level position in any future Obama administration.
$26m as the Vice Chairman? Egregious and outrageous.
Hey, give her a break! It takes geniune talent to lose that much money that doesn’t belong to you, that fast.
I could never have done what she did — she must be worth that kind of pay.
I’ve blogged interminably about Gorelick’s unique ability to cause colossal disasters in her wake—a veritable tsunami of jinxes always seems to follow her trail….
She will be Obama’s Attorney General if that total yokel with affirmative action credentials is elected.
“Total Yokel”? That’s a bit harsh isn’t it? And besides it’s offensive to your average hairy legged yokel–and I’m proud to be one! (Yokel that is–don’t want anything to do with the Total Yokel from Kansas/Hawaii/Indonesia etc.)
That’s quite a story. You could put on a tinfoil hat and come up with a pretty good story from that. Maybe she’s a secret agent charged with bringing down the US, and doing a damn fine job of it too…
What was it again, now, that the Romans used to do to females instead of crucifying them?
Just a rumor, I’m sure.
Gorelick is right up there with Jane Fonda in my list of women contributing to American success.
Fonda was a traitor B***H out of ideology. Gorelick seems motivated by greed. Neither is fit for anything but imagery for urinal stickers.
Lex,
As good a fighter-pilot and officer as you undoubtedly were, you are daily providing evidence that you just may have missed your true calling–that of omnivorous Renaissance Man and political/sociocultural commentator extraordinaire. Quite an informational mix you’ve been serving up lately. Just proves what can happen when someone has waaay too much time on their hands……..Or is “Master of Time Mgt.” part of your professional portfolio?
As for Gorelick? Might not the old time-worn but still valid phrase “F-Up
and Move Up” seem appropriate?
When I saw this info elsewhere earlier today, all I could think is how our “friends” the jihadis did want to knock out our financial system….
But sounds to tinfoilly. Maybe in 50 years, some historian, in the unclassified documents will find out what really happened…oops! Sandy Berger has prevented that!
Sigh….
Her surname shall be pronounced, from now until the end of the world, as Gore-Lick.
I’m borderline autistic, I’ve been drinking (quite a bit) and I declare that she shall be known as Gore-lick from now until the end of the world.
P.s. Hic.
xformed’s mention of Berger spotlights one of the great inexplicable mysteries (to me at least) of the Bush Administration, namely it’s failure to prosecute Berger to the fullest extent possible. Even as of today, Berger has yet to submit to a polygraph as was part of the plea bargin agreement–and
the Justice Dept seems in no hurry to pursue the issue! Tis a puzzlement…..
Were the shoe on the other foot, so to speak, is there any doubt as to what a
Donkey Party President would do?
Should not some enterprising (?) lawyers be filing lawsuits against the Board of Directors of Fannie and Freddie for misfeasance/malfeasance?
Franklin Raines, an old Clinton hand, left in disgrace with a golden parachute.