Posted on 03/16/2011 11:20:02 PM PDT by Libloather
The Politics of Picking an FBI Director
By Evan Perez
March 16, 2011, 12:11 PM ET.
For a job designed to be apolitical, there’s plenty of politics to consider as the Obama administration picks the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mark Filip, deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, said one reason FBI Director Robert Mueller has many admirers in both political parties is that he’s viewed as honest and non-political in handling sensitive national security and criminal investigations. Mr. Mueller’s 10-year term ends in early September.
Among the candidates being discussed, according to U.S. officials, are James Comey, former deputy attorney general in the Bush administration; Kenneth Wainstein, a former head of the Justice Department’s national security division and Bush White House homeland security adviser; Patrick Fitzgerald, the top federal prosecutor in Chicago; and Merrick Garland, a federal judge on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and a finalist for the Supreme Court vacancy in 2010.
Also mentioned are: Michael Mason, former senior FBI official whose candidacy is backed by an organization of current and former FBI agents; John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration and Mr. Mueller’s former deputy; and Jamie Gorelick, former Clinton deputy attorney general.
Mr. Garland is a Clinton appointee and is viewed as a moderate on the bench. Winning Senate confirmation as FBI director could ease his path for a future Supreme Court seat or as attorney general if President Barack Obama wins a second term.
Some of the potential picks are veterans of political battles.
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Typical democrat tactics at work—put her name out there so the person they put forward doesn’t look so bad.
Gorelick is Col Cathcart come to life.
Whenever I read of skulduggery in the administration her name always comes up.
As FBI director, she’d certainly be well informed about illegal government activities!
No, it sonds like Obama is just practicing the Chicago politics he learned.
Always pick someone who has demonstrated their corruption. That way they will go along to get along.
Just... damn...
Well, he did say yesterday that despite the hope that he still had a lot of work ahead for the change.
Dearlord!!!! There’s been NO admin in our history so purposely and insidiously engaged in hurting us and bring us down .. like these evil monsters.
How Jamie Gorelick cashed in at Fannie Mae
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Few bloggers, however, have asked why Fannie Mae handed a middling bureaucrat with no financial or housing experience a sinecure that the Washington Monthly called “the equivalent of winning the lottery.”
Or why House Democrats invested one of their five 9/11 commission slots in a mortgage executive with little or no intelligence experience.
Or why Gorelick gave up a $4 million a year on-average gig to join the 9/11 commission.
All three questions lead to the same answer: Gorelick’s role in the investigation of TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996.
*snip*
They might also have learned that Clinton had appointed five reliable hacks to the Fannie Mae board: the chief of staff and deputy campaign manager from his 1992 campaign, a former White House aide, a major DNC fund-raiser and Lincoln bedroom guest, and a GOP real estate mogul who endorsed Clinton in 1992.
One does not have to be a cynic to suspect that Clinton had something to do with Gorelick’s appointment.
Six years and about $25.6 million later, Gorelick responded to the call of duty once more and took her seat on the 9/11 commission.
Read more: How Jamie Gorelick cashed in at Fannie Mae http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104046#ixzz1GsqcLUlVhttp://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104046#ixzz1GsqTSKEv
She knows where all the skeletons are buried. She is toxic unless taken care of. She will always have a good job
See post #6 above for more info on Gorelick (thanks, maggief).
Thanks also to Brad from Tennessee for the info below on Gorelick's position at Fannie Mae (1997-200).
... Jamie S. Gorelick, whose official résumé describes her as “one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States,” a position she held during the Clinton administration. Although Gorelick had no background in finance, she joined Fannie Mae in 1997 as vice chair and departed in 2003. For her trouble, Gorelick collected a staggering $26.4 million in total compensation, including bonuses. Federal investigators (PDF) would later say that “Fannie Mae's management directed employees to manipulate accounting and earnings to trigger maximum bonuses for senior executives from 1998 to 2003.” The New York Times would call the manipulations an “$11 billion accounting scandal.” Gorelick, it should be noted, has never been charged with any wrongdoing. . .
Absolutely not on this one.
Here’s where I go to Washington, DC to raise hell.
Millions/billions times ∞ from Barney Frank on down.
Uncounted $'s handed out above board as well as stuffed in back pockets, politics is bankrupting us. Criminals the lot of them.
The housing market/stock market/regulatory depts are just a chess board to the self appointed elites.
What gives them the right to steal from us??
Stop the graft etc and political favoritism and problem solved.
Jails could be filled, fines levied.
Fair trials and firing squads if the rule of law were applied where applicable.
What did Gorelick do for Clinton to be part of the scum that rose to the top?
Or if you look at her name closely, maybe she went through Gore.
Criminals of a feather flock together.
>> Charlie, is that you?
Duh!
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