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Obama: Who Would Be Good for AG? Hey, How About That Woman Who Erected the Wall Between the FBI and DoJ? That Sounds Good!
Is this a joke? It has to be a joke. Certainly Barack Obama can’t be seriously considering nominating Jamie Gorelick as Attorney General . He can’t truly be considering hiring the woman who erected the wall between FBI counterintelligence agents and DoJ with a memo that said: We ...
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All in All She’s Just Another Brick in the Wall
damnum absque injuria — Not really; actually Jamie Gorelick was its principal architect, and now it seems she’s on track to be our next Attorney General. In the bad old days, AG Ashcroft operated under the principle of “don’t let it happen again, John.” Now, courtesy of Change, we get the very person whose infamous “wall” helped it happen in the first place. Now there is Change you can believe in!

Jamie Gorelick For Attorney General??????
Pirate's Cove — ... Hope! Change! Looking forward, not back! Changing the landscape of Washington! A new way of doing business! Obama’s asking you to Believe in his ability to bring real change to Washington. The kind of change that brings us back to the disasterous wall between law enforcement and intelligence (via Patterico) ...

Obama Considering Controversial Figure for Attorney General
PoliGazette — ... The reason for their aggressive response is that Gorelick is considered the woman who erected the wall between the Department of Justice and FBI counterintelligence agents. She is the one ‘credited’ for separating domestic and foreign intelligence in such a way that the two were considered completely different branches, even though they sometimes overlap. As they did in September 2001. ...

Jamie Gorelick For Attorney General??????
Stop The ACLU — Hope! Change! Looking forward, not back! Changing the landscape of Washington! A new way of doing business! Obama’s asking you to Believe in his ability to bring real change to Washington. The kind of change that brings us back to the disasterous wall between law enforcement and intelligence (via Patterico ) ...

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