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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm just seeing that Jamie Gorelick has been hired by J6 committee to write the events of the day???
Waiting for corroborative source.
What the hell?!?!
Ocelot II
(115,070 posts)NBachers
(16,967 posts)Poiuyt
(18,073 posts)I was hoping they'd hire an actual writer and not a lawyer.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Massive corruption, for one.
Her actions re: the wall between intelligence and law enforcement that is said to have prevented information about the 9-11 hijackers from their deed.
And so on.
WHY WHY pick someone with questionable reputation?
NBachers
(16,967 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,031 posts)Hunter S. Thompson is not available.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)anti-privacy
actively fought student loan reforms as a lobbyist
was a lobbyist for Big Pharma and helped weaken opioid drug oversight enforcement
Jared-Ivanka Ethics Lawyer Helped Pharma Weaken Opioid Enforcement
https://www.republicreport.org/2017/jared-ivanka-ethics-lawyer-helped-pharma-weaken-opioid-enforcement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Even though she had no previous training nor experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed Vice Chairman of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from 1997 to 2003. She served alongside former Clinton Administration official Franklin Raines. During that period, Fannie Mae developed a $10 billion accounting scandal.
On March 25, 2002, Business Week interviewed Gorelick about the health of Fannie Mae. Gorelick is quoted as saying, "We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody's gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength without a reference to the government in any way. 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.
In an additional scandal concerning falsified financial transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a "manipulation" that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives, Gorelick received $779,625.
A 2006 report of an investigation by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight into Fannie Mae's accounting practices and corporate governance revealed that from 1998 to 2002 Gorelick received a total of $26.5 million in income from Fannie Mae.
9/11 Commission
According to Gorelick's op-ed letter in the Washington Post she states that: "At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that 'the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents' and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo." However, the report from the 9/11 Commission, co-authored by Gorelick, asserts that the 'wall' limiting the ability of federal agencies to cooperate had existed since the 1980s and is in fact not one singular wall but a series of restrictions created over the course of over twenty years.
Conflict of interest
A 1995 Department of Justice memorandum states that the procedures her memorandum put in place for the investigation of the 1993 WTC bombing "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." The wall intentionally exceeded the requirements of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) for the purposes of criminal investigations, as well as the then-existing federal case law. These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations.
Gorelick eventually recused herself from reviewing her own role in the regulation of information about terrorist activities.
Lawyer for Duke University
Gorelick was added in February 2006 to Duke University's defense team after the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case scandal. The University faced claims by unaccused members of the team that they "railroaded 47 Duke University students as either principals or accomplices." Gorelick and her law firm left the defense team in July 2011 after Judge Beatty denied Duke's motions to dismiss and let the lawsuits proceed in April.
Jamie Gorelick: Amazon's Anti-Union Shadow Adviser At The DOJ
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/jamie-gorelick-amazons-anti-union-shadow-adviser-at-the-doj/
Ivanka and Jareds Ethics Lawyer Somehow Wins Ethics Award
https://www.republicreport.org/2017/ivanka-jareds-ethics-lawyer-somehow-wins-ethics-award/
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kushners-lawyer-is-ex-deputy-ag-jamie-gorelick-author_b_58745bdce4b0a5e600a78e51|
][link:https://www.cashill.com/archive/natl_general/is_jamie_gorelick.htm|
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In her most recent public outing, Gorelick represented BP in the Gulf oil mess. Nor was this the first disaster with which the 58 year-old year-old Gorelick has been involved.
Indeed, bloggers have taken to calling Jamie Gorelick "The Mistress of Disaster" and with good reason. Now, she can add an IRS scandal notch to her multi-notched belt.
In 1993, as deputy attorney general under President Clinton, Gorelick served as field commander for the horrific government assault on a religious community in Waco, Texas, that left more than eighty dead, twenty of them children.
In 1995, she went on to pen the infamous "wall" memo that prevented intelligence agencies from sharing information in the run-up to September 11.
At the time, a dismayed FBI investigator wrote a memo to headquarters which included the sentence, '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 1996 Gorelick stepped up her game, taking a lead role in the investigation of the TWA Flight 800 disaster. This was the 747 that inexplicably blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996 killing 230 people.
As deputy attorney general serving under a feckless Janet Reno, Gorelick's assignment was to rein in the FBI. This had become increasingly necessary.
more at link
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Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)obamanut2012
(25,869 posts)She even served in Clinton's Administration. The OP isn't saying any of that.
DET
(1,259 posts)Where did you see that?
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Will provide ASAP.
agingdem
(7,697 posts)there are seven Democrats and two Republicans on the committee..if there was a problem with Gorelick then the seven Democrats would have said no...there is no way in hell Raskin and Schiff will allow Gorelick to "Bill Barr" the report...let's see how this plays out before we go after the J6 committee...
obamanut2012
(25,869 posts)Unless you think Bill Clinton is a Republican.
Bev54
(9,912 posts)a suitable writer for the report???
obamanut2012
(25,869 posts)The OP isn't, unless there has been breaking news in this since earlier today.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Still waiting for corroboration that she will actually do the report.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)..considering that the Kushners are/were her clients??
Massive conflict of interest there. Of course, though, Cheney is a Republican with familial connections of many kinds.
obamanut2012
(25,869 posts)And, look at everything else she did. That is why.