The Birth: Barbara Gordon, once known as Gotham City's Batgirl was shot and crippled by the Joker, her career cut short as she was paralyzed and restricted to a wheelchair. Vanishing from the vigilante scene and now known as Oracle, she was formerly an operative who was funded and recruited to work with the Suicide Squad as a team coordinator and information source. She has recently taken her information brokering duties freelance and full-time and is no longer in direct employment of the United States government or operative teams except as it pleases her to do so.
Barbara Gordon was created by Bob Kane and first appeared as Batgirl in Detectice Comics #359 (January, 1969). Her Oracle identity created by John Ostrander and first appeared in Suicide Squad #23.

The Alter Ego: Oracle's real name is Barbara "Babs" Gordon. Both her parents, Roger & Thelma Gordon are deceased and she was adopted by her uncle, James Gordon, the Police Commissioner of Gotham.
This young girl grew under the rules and values laid down by her straight as an arrow foster father. When James marriage with Barbara fell apart, he married another officer, Sarah Essen. The young Barbara got another step-mother.
As a young student she was one of the best atheletes on her team and was also an excellent gymnast and dancer.
Barbara worked as a librarian, later as a lobbyist and even went into polictic full-scale as she became a Congressperson. She also is a computer expert and worked as a computer professional.

The Legend: Inspired by Batman, Barbara donned her own bat-suit and fought crime as Batgirl. While she put her self defense, martial arts, and gymnastics to use as a vigilante, her training in the finer forms of fighting and use of the regular bat equipment was given by Batman himself. Unfortunately, she was shot by the Joker in the line of duty, a tragic accident that crippled her for life. Confined to a wheelchair, her carrier as Batgirl ended.
She then started working for the Suicide Squad as a team coordinator and information source; putting her knowledge of computers to use.
Later on, she left the team, dropped out of sight and adopted the code-name of Oracle, making herself known to certain selective people as an information broker. It is believed that nothing escapes her attention and she knows all. No-one really knows Oracle's secret identity.
She is a presence throughout the world, watching, tracking, and getting involved, via her operatives and allies, where she believes her and their combined skills could help out.

It was the Batman who sponsored her admission into the Justice League, where she now works as their head technologist.
She also forms the brains of the duo known as Birds of Prey which has the Black Canary as her partner.

Oracle is an expert at research & analysis and maintains several advanced databases filled with information about the metahumans, high-trained non-metahumans, exceptional people, criminal, supersecret cabals, hate organizations, government agencies, and aliens who populate the world at large. Her database ranks among the best in the world. She is an excellent programmer in a half a dozen languages, hacker, phone phreaker, master of telecommunications and database administrator, a technical wizard capable of working almost anywhere, she employees her talents creating custom built databases that allow her to cross reference information as quickly as possible. Working with WayneTech as a technical consultant, she is kept in computers, and money to do whatever she needs to, as Oracle.

Working closely with WayneTech and the Batman, she has use of some of the best computer systems in the world - all provided by Batman himself. She has multiple uplinks to satellites, microwave transmitters, mobile communications, descramblers, cellular decoders and using the Justice League relay satellites can connect to anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds