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Gorelick's Wall - She belongs in the witness chair (from 2004)
wsj ^
| April 15, 2004
Posted on 09/12/2006 1:31:39 PM PDT by dennisw
What's more, Mr. Ashcroft noted, the wall did not mysteriously arise: "Someone built this wall." That someone was largely the Democrats, who enshrined Vietnam-era paranoia about alleged FBI domestic spying abuses by enacting the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Mr. Ashcroft pointed out that the wall was raised even higher in the mid-1990s, in the midst of what was then one of the most important antiterror investigations in American history--into the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. On Tuesday the Attorney General declassified and read from a March 4, 1995, memo in which Jamie Gorelick--then Deputy Attorney General and now 9/11 Commissioner--instructed then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and United States Attorney Mary Jo White that for the sake of "appearances" they would be required to adhere to an interpretation of the wall far stricter than the law required.
Ms. White was then the lead prosecutor in cases related to the Trade Center bombing. Ms. Gorelick explicitly references United States v. Yousef and United States v. Rahman--cases that might have greatly expanded our pre-9/11 understanding of al Qaeda had investigators been given a freer hand. The memo is a clear indication that there was pressure then for more intelligence sharing. Ms. Gorelick's response is an unequivocal "no": "We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation" (emphases added).
In case anyone was in doubt, Janet Reno herself affirmed the policy several months later in a July 19, 1995, memo that we have unearthed. In it, the then-Attorney General instructs
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:31:40 PM PDT
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:32:13 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
To: dennisw
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:33:06 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
To: dennisw
You know what I love most about this piece?
Remember that Ashcroft revealed that info only because the Dems were waiting for him, trying to trip him up.
They attacked him with a flyswatter, and he hit back with a nuke, which is still raining fallout on the Dems to this day, while no one even recalls what Ashcroft was being asked.
To: Darkwolf377
You're right.
That was back in the Dems' "connect the dots" phase.
To: dennisw
Crosslinked:
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:37:06 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: dennisw
good thing she's not islamic, then her name would be Jamie Al-Gorelick
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:38:11 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
( muhammed .....................8(_o_)8 .................p b & j mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
To: dennisw
Blood on this a-wipe's hands. Horror in your dreams hag.
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:38:45 PM PDT
by
shankbear
To: dennisw
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:39:55 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: dennisw
The "9/11 Commission" went from a farce to a criminal enterprise the moment this b!tch's role in that pre-9/11 "wall" was exposed and her @ss wasn't thrown off the panel.
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:44:37 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Alberta's Child
You should read the Commission's report some day. It goes into great detail on 'the wall' and how it led to 9/11.
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:50:35 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: dennisw
Why does FISA still exist? The GOP should have made their first act in 1995 to scrap that act, and the disgraceful trio of judges who were given illegal authority to subvert the Exectuive, by that very act.
To: dennisw
May this Bill Clinton "witch" burn in hell where she belongs forever. A true enabler and murderer of American innocents along with Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and Madeline Albright. And....I am sure Hillary Clinton was helping to lead the pack of Democrat scum & vermin that betrayed American and American citizens!!!
To: dennisw
How about the ELECTRIC chair??? She also should be in prison for Fannie Mae debacle.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:02:24 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: P-40
IF the Commission Report REALLY DOES go into The Wall, then WHY the HELL didn't THOSE COWARDS CONFRONT HER???
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:03:47 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
May this Bill Clinton "witch" burn in hell where she belongs forever. A true enabler and murderer of American innocents along with Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and Madeline Albright. And....I am sure Hillary Clinton was helping to lead the pack of Democrat scum & vermin that betrayed American and American citizens!!!Keep your powder dry. In a yr we will start unleashing all of Bubbas felonies/failures.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:04:58 PM PDT
by
Digger
To: P-40
You should read the Commission's report some day. I'll attempt to do brain surgery on myself before I waste even a minute of my life reading a report prepared by that group of @ssholes.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:05:09 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Suzy Quzy
then WHY the HELL didn't THOSE COWARDS CONFRONT HER???
By 'they' do you mean the other panel members? They just foot-noted her involvment as the originator of 'the wall' and then note that she will not be involved with the parts of the investigation that involve 'the wall.' How well they stuck to that is anyone's guess...but the Report goes into great detail on how 'the wall' led to 9/11. If you load the Report in Acrobat and search on the phrase 'the wall' you will see what I mean.
There is a lot of interesting stuff in the Report, like the paragraph below, that make it worth reading.
There was substantial disagreement between Minneapolis agents and FBI headquarters as to what Moussaoui was planning to do. In one conversation between a Minneapolis supervisor and a headquarters agent, the latter com= plained that Minneapoliss FISA request was couched in a manner intended to get people spun up.The supervisor replied that was precisely his intent. He said he was trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center. The headquarters agent replied that this was not going to happen and that they did not know if Moussaoui was a terrorist.101
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:10:34 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Suzy Quzy
then WHY the HELL didn't THOSE COWARDS CONFRONT HER???
By 'they' do you mean the other panel members? They just foot-noted her involvment as the originator of 'the wall' and then note that she will not be involved with the parts of the investigation that involve 'the wall.' How well they stuck to that is anyone's guess...but the Report goes into great detail on how 'the wall' led to 9/11. If you load the Report in Acrobat and search on the phrase 'the wall' you will see what I mean.
There is a lot of interesting stuff in the Report, like the paragraph below, that make it worth reading.
There was substantial disagreement between Minneapolis agents and FBI headquarters as to what Moussaoui was planning to do. In one conversation between a Minneapolis supervisor and a headquarters agent, the latter com= plained that Minneapoliss FISA request was couched in a manner intended to get people spun up.The supervisor replied that was precisely his intent. He said he was trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center. The headquarters agent replied that this was not going to happen and that they did not know if Moussaoui was a terrorist.101
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:11:17 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Alberta's Child
The "9/11 Commission" went from a farce to a criminal enterprise the moment this b!tch's role in that pre-9/11 "wall" was exposed and her @ss wasn't thrown off the panel.
Agreed. Didn't she also recuse herself when the questioning came to Janet Reno? How convenient.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:17:54 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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