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Attorney General Janet Reno has nominated Jamie Gorelick to be her Deputy Attorney General. As the Pentagon's top lawyer, Gorelick has won praise for her managerial skills and deft handling of such volatile issues as the retirement of Tailhook-tainted Admiral Frank Kelso. Her predecessor, Philip Heymann, resigned in January, citing bad "chemistry" with Reno...
...Department of Defense Jamie S. Gorelick '72, a Law School Graduate, has been nominated to replace Heymann...
With studied dramatics, Nunn posed several possible statements to Defense Department general counsel Jamie Gorelick. "I am a homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger the presumption. "I am a lesbian," Nunn intoned. "Yes." "I am bisexual," said Nunn, who once fired two staff members for being gay, claiming they were security risks. "Yes." Finally, Nunn sprung one Gorelick hadn't expected. "I have a homosexual orientation," he said. Gorelick hesitated. Homosexual "orientation" was exactly what the new regulations tolerated in a military man or woman; admitting to it, however, was not. Yes, she agreed...
...added to the policy in order to claim an "honorable compromise." As irritated as Nunn might be at Clinton's admittedly tortured distinctions between gay "orientation" (to be tolerated) and gay "conduct" (grounds for dismissal), the betting was that he would merely badger Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gorelick into effectively admitting that it and other pesky wordings were indeed fairly meaningless, and eventually give the package his blessing...
Felix Frankfurter Professor of law Abram Chayes '43 agreed with Gorelick's criticisms. He said he was disheartened to be "training so many of these young people to go off and do things that you wouldn't do yourself and which are somewhat problematic in an ethical sense...