Call on Jamie S. Gorelick to Resign from the 9-11 Commission (click here)

The 9/11 Commission ^ | 4/14/04 | jmstein7

[jmstein7]

Call on Jamie S. Gorelick to Resign from the 9-11 Commission

From the AP:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner called on Jamie Gorelick to resign from the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote as a deputy attorney general on separating counterintelligence from criminal investigations. "Scrutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work," said Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Ms. Gorelick has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in questions."

On Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft released the declassified 1995 memo from Gorelick containing instructions that "more clearly separate" counterintelligence from criminal investigations. He said the "wall" between counterintelligence and criminal investigations was a key impediment to terrorism probes before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, also has called on Gorelick to step down, citing the memo.

A phone message left with the Sept. 11 commission was not immediately returned Wednesday.

I ask you to send the following email -- or your own -- asking Ms. Gorelick to do the right thing and step down.  Please flood the commission with these emails.

Send the email to the following address: info@9-11Commission.gov; info@9-11Commission.gov

You may also phone the commission here: 

Tel: (202) 331-4060

Fax: (202) 296-5545

Sample email is as follows:

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Subject:  Do the Right Thing -- Resign

Dear Ms. Gorelick,

Please do the right thing and step down from the 9/11 Commission.

In 1995, as Deputy Attorney General of the Clinton Administration, you drafted and signed a memo creating a wall between counterintelligence and criminal investigation, a key impediment to terrorism probes before the Sept. 11 attacks.  As House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner averred, "[s]crutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work."

This presents a severe and impermissible conflict of interest.  There is "an inherent conflict of interest as [you are] the author of this memo and [are] a government official at the center of the events in questions."

Ms. Gorelick -- please do the right thing.  If America is to believe that the 9/11 Commission is not merely a partisan sham aimed solely at damaging the Bush Administration, you must resign your position in light of this gross political conflict of interest.

I trust you will do the honorable thing and resign.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME, YOUR ADRRESS, ETC.

 

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[StopThePress]

Bump and run. I've got every single Yahoo Bulletin Board covered on this one. THE LEFT HAS GONE WAY TOO FAR THIS TIME!!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. bump !

[pepperhead]

Step Down?? I want her grilled, maybe Michael Moore could take her place!!

Please don't give the democrats ideas.;)

[jmstein7]

Send another copy of the/your emails to Ms. Gorelick's private email address at her law firm:

Jamie.Gorelick@wilmer.com

[AuntB]

That's what I recalled also, but I haven't found reference for it yet. I did find that Jamie got 4.37 million for serving Fannie Mae.http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:K5EDknAo3hcJ:www.imfpubs.com/shop/executive%2520compensation.PDF+Jamie+Gorelick&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[pepperhead]

Kean says no and that's it's a ridiculous question. She is in his mind one of the hardest, most fine and less partisan members of the commission.

I see he is a former governor of New Jersey, is he a RINO?

[ralph rotten]

Just called Gallegly Elton ( 23 district Rep.)and request him to asked the comm. to have Gorelick resign and be called as a witness.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I did too. It is a joke.

[JulieRNR21]

Jamie Gorelick, serves on the board of Schlumberger, Limited. One of Schlumberger companies has an office in Tehran, Iran. Since she lists this in her bio I'm just assuming it is true.

Now I would not think a person that is a board member of a company doing business in Iran (a country that has not been friendly to the US in 25 years) would be open minded about terrorism if the findings would have a negative impact on Iran. In addition to the memo in question; this seems to me to be a definite conflict of interest.

Below are: the URL for the 9-11 commission with the bio about Jamie Gorelick tacked onto it, copy of the bio, with highlighted items, Schlumberger Limited, with geomarket tacked onto it, and finally an address.

http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bio_gorelick.htm

Jamie S. Gorelick
Commissioner

Jamie Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Prior to joining Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in July 2003, Gorelick was vice chair of Fannie Mae. As part of the four-person Office of the Chairman, she shared responsibility for overall management of the company, directed its efforts to reach underserved markets and oversaw Fannie Mae's external relationships, legal and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Fannie Mae in May 1997, Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States, a position she assumed in March 1994. From May 1993 until she joined the Justice Department, Gorelick served as general counsel of the Department of Defense. From 1979 to 1980 she was assistant to the secretary and counselor to the deputy secretary of energy. In the private sector, from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1993, Gorelick was a litigator in Washington, D.C., representing major U.S. companies on a broad range of legal and business matters. She served as president of the District of Columbia Bar from 1992 to 1993. Gorelick is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She also serves on several boards, including the Fannie Mae Foundation, United Technologies Corporation, Schlumberger, Limited, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard College Board of Overseers, America's Promise, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and The National Park Foundation. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Gorelick co-chaired, with Senator Sam Nunn, the Advisory Committee of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, and currently serves on the Central Intelligence Agency's National Security Advisory Panel as well as the President's Review of Intelligence.

http://www.oilfield.slb.com/content/about/geomarkets/mea/mea.asp

http://www.oilfield.slb.com/content/about/geomarkets/mea/irg.asp?

Well Services of Iran
Schlumberger Methods
No. 3, Daman Afshar St.
(before Mirdamad intersection)
Vali Asr Ave. Vanak Sq. Tehran, Iran

[MeekOneGOP]

[AuntB]

On that matter, this article states Gorelick was in charge of oversight to INS:


Flow of Illegals at Mexican Border Reduced, Official Says
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N48/briefs1.48w.html (for full article)

The Justice Department's No. 2 official said Thursday that the Border Patrol, with the aid of the Defense Department, has sharply reduced the number of illegal immigrants coming across a formerly heavily traversed section of the California-Mexico border.

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, returning from a two-day visit to the border south of San Diego, coupled her upbeat assessment with a prediction that the government will be able to "secure the entire southwest border."


Gorelick, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Immigration and Naturalization Service, described looking at sites where "people had been running across the border utterly unimpeded for years" and finding them "quiet." She provided no specific figures on the decrease, however.

[JulieRNR21]

Since they don't read our emails....Let's send them postcard & letters:

Here's the address:

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407

info@9-11Commission.gov

You may also phone the commission here:

Tel: (202) 331-4060

Fax: (202) 296-5545

[pepperhead]

I did find that Jamie got 4.37 million for serving Fannie Mae

So in 2002 she received 3,712,922 in bonuses. Which is in the same time frame where the company lost $25.1bn in derivative transactions. I guess if she wasn't busy with the 9/11 commission she would have been grilling Ken Lay and the rest of the Enron bandits

http://www.rense.com/general50/serdi.htm

[AuntB]

"America's Promise"

Colin Powell's pet project........small world.

[JulieRNR21]

We should also send thank you emails to:

sensenbrenner@miail.house.gov

[onyx]

Telephone works for me.
Thanks Julie.

[BlessedByLiberty]

ALL: (I hope it's permissible to post to two threads)
Here are some material questions for Gorelick you may want to include in your letter/fax/email/phone calls:

1) Who authorized you to prepare and write this memorandum and why?

2) If you indeed initiated and authored this memorandum, why did you do it?

3) With whom did you vet this memorandum?

4) In light of continuing terrorist attacks against our interests, including the USS Cole, why did you not rescind your memo?

Commissioner Keane - we're making it our business! (in case anyone missed it during a press conference when queried about Gorelick stepping down, not only did Keane defend her he said we should stay out of the commission's business!)

[Alberta's Child]

Dear Sir:

In light of yesterday's revelation regarding Jamie Gorelick's role in the development of U.S. Justice Department policy restricting contact between the FBI and CIA in the 1990s, I am asking you to demand her resignation from your 9/11 commission. Her actions as a former Justice Department official in the Clinton administration have thoroughly compromised her ability to even feign any objectivity in her role on this body. In fact, her position in the Clinton administration makes her more suited to serve as a witness before this commission than a member of it.

Beyond that, I find it utterly disgraceful that someone in her position would be permitted to serve at all on a commission before which current and former White House and Justice Department officials would be asked to testify.

Sincerely,

[Alberta's Child]

[Alberta's Child]

Jamie Gorelick ping.

[Eva]

But, if you recall, during the '96 election, Clinton asked Gore to oversee the naturalization of 1 million new immigrants to swell the Democrat voter ranks. In order to do this FBI checks were eliminated and criminals and undesirables were given citizenship. Evidently Gore passed this task on to Jami Gorelick. At least one of these naturalized citizens was already in jail when his citizenship came through. I wonder how many Al Qaeda members were granted citizenship.