April 14, 2004
Gorelick? Ay Carumba
 Let's remember something
about 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick. Her role in public
life is that of Hillary Clinton's hand puppet. After deputy
attorney general Webb Hubbel was sent to prison, his replacement was
Gorelick. Both were picked by HRC, and both were de facto heads
of the Justice department on all matters that could impact the
Clintons. She has precisely the same role on this commission. Anyway, in today's National
Review, "[F]or three years beginning in 1994, [Gorelick] was an architect of the government's self-imposed procedural wall, intentionally erected to prevent intelligence agents from pooling information with their law-enforcement counterparts. That is not partisan carping. That is a matter of objective fact. That wall was not only a deliberate and unnecessary impediment to information sharing; it bred a culture of intelligence dysfunction. It told national-security agents in the field that there were other values, higher interests, that transcended connecting the dots and getting it right. It set them up to fail. To hear Gorelick lecture witnesses about intelligence lapses is breathtaking." 
It was she, as an important part of the Clinton policy team, who
redefined what FBI agents could do under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA). It was this that Attorney General
Ashcroft was referring when he testified that "for nearly 10 years we
had blinded ourselves." But, even that is not the worst
part. The real damage is being done by a national news
media who have clearly chosen sides. Pick the wrong one to glance
at (read? READ?) , or listen to, and your perception of reality
is different than the other guy's. That's what will bring this
country down, not bin-Laden. |
And why did Jamie Gorelick recuse herself from the panel when Janet "I only did it for the children" Reno and Louis Freeh were giving testimony but didn't when John Ashcroft was? Still, Ashcroft nailed her to wall in his opening statement (I watched). He didn't name her but said something to the effect "a memo written by a memner of this panel" when referring to the "wall".
Gorelick should be up against the wall she herself built.
I must be missing something. How on earth did she get on the panel? She should be testifying before the panel, not sitting on it!
Posted by Dick at April 14, 2004 11:47 AMExactly Dick, lots of ppl are asking that.
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Posted by Kim du Toit at April 14, 2004 11:58 AMThe answer is all in the name......
GORE-LICK
AnnoyedOne - I missed Ashcroft while listening to GWB, but after reading this:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6429
I wish I had caught Ashcroft's testimony. The really neat thing is that he declassified Gorelick's memo just for the hearing and circulated it, and brought along Solicitor General Ted Olson who lost his wife on a 9/11 airplane. The memo left her near speechless and Olson's presence shut up that slimy fuck Ben-Veniste. At last, an RRWB!! (Real Republican With Balls)
All warm and fuzzy 8<)
Posted by Dick at April 15, 2004 12:33 AMI suspect congressional Dems named Gorelick to the 911 commission specifically to *prevent* her from being called to testify. If GOP commissioners asked her to testify--*under oath*, like Rice--I suspect the Dem members would try to block on the (meritless) ground that one "cannot" call a commission member as a witness.
Frankly, that's a pretty clever strategy--Dems outfox GOP again. Wish a GOP panel member had the balls to call Gorelick as a witness, and we could watch the fur fly.
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