Posted on 09/10/2006 8:34:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Guests:
9/11 Commission Members:
Thomas H. Kean, Chair Richard Ben-Veniste Jamie S. Gorelick John F. Lehman
9/11, Five Years Later: On the fifth anniversary of the worst terror attacks in U.S. history, I speak exclusively with those commissioned to seek the truth about the 9/11 attacks. Four key members of the 9/11 Commission: Chairman and former Gov. Thomas Kean, R-N.J., Richard Ben-Veniste, Jamie Gorelick, and John Lehman weigh in on the lessons learned, and whether America is prepared for another catastrophe. And, with ABC's controversial dramatization, "The Path to 9/11," set to air Sunday and Monday, the commissioners react to the firestorm surrounding it.
On our roundtable, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, ABC News' Martha Raddatz, and George Will join me to debate the week's politics.
Then, Dr. Gene Steuerle, a 9/11 widower, shares his story of overcoming tragedy to form Our Voices Together, a nonprofit network dedicated to combating terror by exporting hope.
Agree 100%, no reputations matter except for the Exalted Ones.
Gorelick's job was to seduce Kean into leaving out anything nasty towards her or the Clintons. Berger's job was as "backstop" to remove from the Archives anything so egregious that no amount of spin could silence. They did their jobs well. But Bush did not do his, and let Berger off with a wrist slap, rather than 5-10 in Leavenworth, which was the minimum given statute. Just imagine an FDR aide caught destroying secret documents regarding Pearl Harbor during the inquiry...he would have been hung without question.
I will never forget seeing one of the so-called Republicans on the commission (the Admiral IIRC) state that Jamie Gorelick was so valuable to the commission because she was in charge of deciding which documents were worth inspection by the commission. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse.
I never heard this again, but it should have gotten more publicity, especially when the Sandy Berger theft became known. I am so furious at the right not saying over and over that the "copies" he took and destroyed were annotated copies and that the annotations were what he wanted to destroy. The right lets the left win the war of words again and again. No one would care if he took exact copies, which is what most people think.
Not only that, in my opinion, she did it for the basest of reasons. Jamie was blocking the discovery of illegal campaign contributions to the Clinton's from the Chinese among others. Jamie's "wall" directly impacted our ability to detect the 9/11 attacks.
Jamie was repaid with a plumb position as Vice-Chairman of Fannie Mae and reaped huge bonuses on fraudulent bookkeeping.
If anyone needs to be frog-marched to jail, it's Jamie Gorelick!
John Ashcroft saw to it that she couldn't.
Some would suggest... the gallows.
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