| Carried over to Thursday. |
The Obama administration reportedly is considering former Clinton administration official Jamie Gorelick, among others, to become the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Wall Street Journal's Evan Perez first reported the news last week, citing "U.S. officials" familiar with the situation.
Gorelick served as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) when the government-sponsored enterprise began bundling subprime loans into securitized financial instruments. Prior to that, she served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department under then-Attorney General Janet Reno from 1994 to 1997.
But Gorelick is perhaps best known for her 1995 memo, written when she was deputy attorney general, that later became known as "Gorelick's Wall," a policy prescription limiting the flow of information between intelligence gatherers and criminal investigators that some believe helped allow the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to go unchallenged.
| Oh would I love to be a Pub Senator questioning Ms. Gorelick at the confirmation hearings. I'd start with her role on the 911 Commission, including why she could serve on that commission when she had such an obvious conflict of interest from her time in the Clinton administation, and then move on to her time at Fannie Mae. Drool, d-rool... |
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