The New York Times reports:
Name: Jamie Gorelickand
Being considered for: Attorney general
Would bring to the job: A wide-ranging Washington résumé that spans corporate, legal and national security affairs. Ms. Gorelick (pronounced Guh-REH-lick) was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, from 1994 to 1997, and if chosen would be the second woman to be named attorney general, following her former boss, Janet Reno. Ms. Gorelick would also bring corporate experience to an Obama administration at a time of financial crisis.
Carries as baggage: Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from the Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her and said critics were distorting her record.Baggage? Is Jamie Gorelick dumb or corrupt? Anyway,here's a bunch of blog entries we have on Jamie Gorelick.It appears Obama and his transition team are more than arrogant.First,we get Rahm Emanuel (Democrat-Freddie Mac) and now possibly the amazing Jamie Gorelick? If Jamie Gorelick is Attorney General we can predict Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will never be investigated.Is Jamie Gorelick being brought in to "manage" the Fannie and Freddie investigations?
