Obama Cabinet Watch
Beldar says No to a perspective Attorney General Gorelick:
But I didn’t know then — nobody much outside the Clinton Administration knew — that she had been the principal builder of the “wall” between domestic and foreign intelligence that, more than any other single factor, made possible the success of the 9/11 attacks. Now that was a huge, glaring, substantive, and disabling conflict of interest. And her decision on that matter while in office showed such incredibly bad judgment on a crucial matter of mixed legal and national security concerns that it ought to have disqualified her from every serving in any future president’s cabinet.
Then there’s the little fact that from 1997 to 2003, she was the vice chairman of Fannie Mae. . . .
But the prospect of Jamie Gorelick heading up the Department of Justice is worth filibustering, if anything or anyone is. She’s not “change you can believe in,” she’s “change guaranteed to cause even more cosmic calamities” because she’s done that consistently in the past.
Previously: