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"also missing the BIG ISSUE raised by the Able Danger & Dept of Defense (DOD) revelations. I tried to call in and couldn't get through BUT....GORELICK WAS GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE DOD BEFORE GOING TO THE DOJ Before crippling anti-terrorism at the DOJ what did she do at the DOD? What walls did she erect at the DOD? What network of like minded leftist lawyers did she leave behind to protect the rights of terrorist and spike terrorist intelligence"? ~ drpix

I think Rush is already aware of that. Notice what was known over a year ago - back in April 2004:

There is a wealth of info in this April 2004 FR thread I'm linking you to. I have copied a few VERY telling things below from it. Read these comments in light of what is coming out right now - don't miss the last two. This is going to be HUGE before all is said and done. I don't think they'll be able to contain the fall-out.

FReeper Research: GORELICK
Posted on 04/16/2004 10:17:42 AM EDT by adam_az
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts

To: mewzilla

"Gorelick also worked at DOD. Wonder what she did there?"

Considering she was General Counsel, I'm sure before any military decisions were made, they had to go through her. If you recall Clinton's bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan, a big deal was made about why he didn't inform the Joint Chiefs or his Principles. Far be it for me to defend Clinton, but this may have been one of the reasons.

It was becoming painfully obvious that the Clinton administration was becoming bogged down in legalese, whether at the DoJ or DoD. I always wondered were Clinton got the idea that he couldn't extradite UBL from the Sudan...or why when our Predator drones spotted OBL, military strikes weren't launched. These appear to all be things that would come under the control of Gorelick (or her associates) as they put lawyers at the top of the chain of command.

15 posted on 04/16/2004 10:41:42 AM EDT by cwb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts?page=15#15

To: cwb

"Gorelick also worked at DOD. Wonder what she did there?"

Look here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118652/posts?page=74#74

Gorelick also worked at DOD, on something called the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee. Does that sound like someone who was out of the loop, unimportant, just a figurehead...Wonder what she did at DOD?"

TRAC homepage: http://www.dtra.mil/about/organization/ab_asco_trac.html

The TRAC advises and assists the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) on reduction of the threat to the United States and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC), conventional and special weapons, sustainment of the the nuclear weapons deterrent, chemical and biological defense, counterproliferation, technology security, weapons effects and other matters related to the DTRA mission. The TRAC identifies and considers emerging Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Threats, reviews countermeasures to such threats and assesses the adequacy of DTRA and other programs' responses to national policy and emerging threats.

MORE INTERESTING:

http://www.dtra.mil/news/his_mat/osi/nw_unscom.html

On September 4, 1998, Secretary of Defense William Cohen designated the newly formed Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to assume executive agent duties from OSIA effective October 1, 1998. Among other duties, DTRA manages DOD's response to UNSCOM requests for inspection team personnel, technical experts, monitoring equipment, supplies and other support. DTRA has the authority, consistent with the UN Participation Act, Executive Order 10206 and applicable DOD directives, to direct DOD components to procure or provide personnel, services, facilities, supplies, equipment and other assistance from existing DOD stores.

19 posted on 04/16/2004 10:43:14 AM EDT by adam_az
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts?page=19#19

To: adam_az

It looks like she probably worked with Richard Clarke in getting the CIA to create that bizarre cartoon to close out the TWA800 explosion investigation.

DEEPER CIA LINK BY 9/11 PANELIST

How Richard Clarke concocted the TWA 800 'exit strategy'

TWA Flight 800, and the Gorelick connection

"...although Ramzi Yousef was on trial that very day in New York for his role in Operation Bojinka, there was no connection made between those plans and the destruction of the plane. Just the opposite. Richard Clarke, in fact, takes credit for suppressing the real evidence and discovering the preposterous "mechanical failure" thesis that the administration eventually made stick.

Although it is easy to blame the FBI for the shameful investigative breakdowns both in Oklahoma City and on Long Island, its agents did not subvert the investigations of their own accord. Their orders came from Washington. The responsibility for enforcing these orders fell to Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who served as the Soviet equivalent of the "political officer" within the Justice Department.

On Aug. 22, 1996 – five weeks after the crash of TWA 800 – Gorelick summoned the FBI's Jim Kallstrom to Washington to be served up a dose of survival reality. Kallstrom had been a good soldier. He had kept all talk of eyewitnesses and satellites and radar and missiles out the news. But the evidence had led him far away from mechanical failure, and there was no easy way to turn back.

To be sure, no account of the meeting provides any more than routine detail, but behaviors began to change immediately afterward, especially after the New York Times broke a headline story the next day, top right: "Prime Evidence Found That Device Exploded in Cabin of Flight 800." This article stole the thunder from Clinton's election-driven approval of welfare reform in that same day's paper and threatened to undermine the peace and prosperity message of next week's Democratic convention.

On that same Aug. 23, the Federal Aviation Administration began to inquire whether any explosives-training exercises had ever taken place on the plane that would become TWA 800. From that day forward, the FBI would do no more serious eyewitness interviews. On that same day, Kallstrom was now saying for the first time, "It was possible that the PETN could have been brought on the plane by a passenger and was not part of a bomb."

Jim Kallstrom was not the only one who had learned the hard way that there could be no terrorism in the summer of 1996. At the "feel good" Atlanta Olympics, the beleaguered security guard Richard Jewell, the poor soul who first spotted the Centennial Park bomb, was learning a harder lesson still.

Although Davis does not document Gorelick's role in Oklahoma City, media accounts routinely describe her as the director of the Oklahoma City task force, the so-called "field commander." As Davis has told me, someone in Washington called the FBI in Oklahoma City and issued a two-word directive on its investigation into Islamic terrorism: "Kill it."

If that person is not Jamie Gorelick, perhaps she could tell the 9-11 Commission who it is. By suppressing the truth in Oklahoma City, Long Island and Atlanta – and then burying it – the Clinton administration left America wide open on Sept. 11. Apologies are in order, but they will not be enough."

21 posted on 04/16/2004 10:53:18 AM EDT by spycatcher
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts?page=21#21

To: cwb

I always wondered were Clinton got the idea that he couldn't extradite UBL from the Sudan

OMG. You're right. Looks like he actually GOT that legal call from Jamie.

Yours is a hugely important observation.

29 posted on 04/16/2004 11:11:13 AM EDT by M. Thatcher (.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts?page=29#29

See #30 below (too much info to print here)
30 posted on 04/16/2004 11:11:48 AM EDT by Diogenesis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118806/posts?page=29#29