The lawyer who, as a Clinton assistant attorney general, had much to do with our intelligence failures on 911 has been hired by Duke to defend it against the lawsuits of the former lacrosse players. I’m sure Duke is banking on her not duplicating for Duke her disastrous legalizing for the United States.

She’s the one who set up the famous “wall of separation” between domestic and foreign intelligence. This is why the Clinton administration dealt with international terrorists as if they were criminals, using investigative techniques more strict than ones they were using on organized crime targets.

I couldn’t imagine a motive for hiring such a controversial and apparently, at least from the public record, inept attorney. Then I saw what possibly makes her valuable in lDuke’s eyes:

Ms. Gorelick has served on the boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The Carnegie and MacArthur foundations. You just had to know money was involved.

(H/t: I missed this item last week but the LieStoppers Forum brought it to my attention)