Well, for starters, it's not often that the same person plays key roles in two -- count 'em, two -- trillion-dollar disasters.
In 2004, observers were "astonished" to discover that a key member of the 9/11 Commission had a fatal conflict-of-interest. Jamie Gorelick had served as a Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.
It was later revealed that Gorelick had established a pre-Patriot Act "wall" that prevented the foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating.
Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations", 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."
The result: shortly before 9/11, Gorelick's wall "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui", the so-called "20th hijacker."
At the time, an enraged 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..."
The 2004 disclosure that Gorelick's service as a 9/11 Commissioner was the archetypical conflict-of-interest should have triggered a cacophony of complaints and demands for a new investigation. Instead, the mainstream media turned deaf and dumb and the controversy faded into the background.
Gorelick's "wall" wrapped a blindfold around America just when it needed its vision to stop the attacks that killed thousands and which sucked a half a trillion dollars out of the economy.
Where did Gorelick turn up next?
Though she had no training or experience in finance, 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 Gorelick's tenure, FNMA suffered a $10 billion accounting scandal, an ominous harbinger of the firm's looming troubles. One of the falsified transactions helped FNMA hit earnings targets for 1998, which triggered bonuses for top executives including nearly $800,000 to Gorelick.
Put simply "Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting."
In 2002 Business Week interviewed Gorelick concerning the health of FNMA. She responded, "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."Less than a year later regulators "accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses."
Today, of course, FNMA is on taxpayer-funded life support, currently trading at 27 cents a share. Its implosion devastated investors around the world. And because it was thought to have been "managed safely" (Gorelick's words), many top-flight financial services companies held its stock.
In 2008 it was revealed that top insurer AIG was toppled, in part, because it held $600 million in Fannie and Freddie. Roughly $4 billion in those stocks were held by insurers before the implosion, according to rating agency A.M. Best.
Put simply, FNMA's collapse helped touch off the entire financial crisis.It's not often that one person plays such a key role in two unmitigated disasters.
Democrat Jamie Gorelick is just such a person; that is why she has earned her nom de guerre "The Mistress of Disaster".
What do you call someone with a Midas Touch, only instead of gold everything they touch turns to s***? That's what Gorelick's got.
Oh, and did I mention that Gorelick was also involved with subprime mortgage securitization?I'm guessing we could link her family to a few other catastrophes if we did the legwork. Where were her parents when the Hindenberg exploded, for instance?
Update: "AFTER HER 9/11 AND HOUSING DEBACLE BACKGROUND who better for FBI Director than Jamie Gorelick?"
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She must give great head.
ReplyDeleteEvery day it seems that the Obama Administration delivers a fresh spit in the eye.
ReplyDeleteDoug, you need to mention this part of her FNMA debacle. In 2001 at the MBA conference she gave this speech:
ReplyDelete“Our approach to our lenders is `CRA Your Way’,” Gorelick said. “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. 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,” Gorelick said.
The woman pimped the subprime mortgage derivatives that almost ruined the Western World. (I may have sent you this link before)
http://justbarkingmad.com/?p=3439
Virtually every major disaster during the last two decades have her fingerprints.
Is this supposed to be funny?
ReplyDeleteShe wrote a bureaucratic memo in 1995, so has some responsibility for 9/11?
Tenent was warning the Pres that a large scale aQ attack was imminent and that all intel was "flashing red". He was doing this while he knew about the highjackers at the aQ forum where the attack was approved and after he received the "Arabs probably planning highjackings" memo about flight training.
Either you believe it's possible that there's a memo I could write (even threatening life in prison) that could make someone not pursue that and stop the major terrorist attack that was coming, or you don't.
Either you believe 9/11 was a red-tape snafu, or that your intel services just suck at their job. As they've demonstrated at every opportunity, during every world event, ever.
It's one of the 2. Either the 1995 lady or the guy who knew 9/11 was coming and the best he could do was hand the President the same stale old "Osama determined to strike" memo that they'd had for years.
Yeah. You know which.
I used to roll my eyes when Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck and others would talk about how Obama wants to take this country down. I would say to myself "Oh...come on."
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It's as if he picks people to destroy the very agencies they will run.
Maybe we could make Mrs. O'Leary's cow Fire Marshall of Chicago, too?
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"Represented Duke University in the Lacrosse team scandel."
Yikes
Banana meet Republic.
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The Federal Bureau Of Indicative?