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The Link Between Gorelick's Wall and the Pentagon
www.whatsinthenews.com ^ | 8/21/05 | wm_tate

Posted on 08/21/2005 7:40:46 AM PDT by wm_tate

The link connecting the Clinton Administration wall separating intelligence gathering from enforcement to the failure to follow up on information that could have prevented 9/11 runs through a little know federal office called The Office of Intelligence Policy and Review.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: abledanger; atta; clinton; gorelick; pentagon; thewall

1 posted on 08/21/2005 7:40:46 AM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

Hey Cindy Sheehan, why don't you camp out on Jamie Gorelick's front lawn? If it weren't for her and her stupid liberal friends, maybe 9/11 could've been avoided and the Iraq War may have been avoided. Your son would still be alive.

Where art thou, Cindy?


2 posted on 08/21/2005 7:47:02 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: wm_tate

Most of the Klintonistas are still in position to block or redirect any evidence that would prove the LACK responsibility of the Klinton Admin and to deflect any and all referances to Hilldabeast.


3 posted on 08/21/2005 7:52:18 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie ('Cuntas haereses tu sola interemisti in universo mundo!')
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To: 26lemoncharlie

the stuff is flying out now. will be hard to push it all aside. what is it they say in hockey ? it's all about shots on goal !


4 posted on 08/21/2005 9:09:40 AM PDT by fantom
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To: wm_tate
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?


5 posted on 08/21/2005 9:46:09 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: GianniV

What doesn't make sense in all this is that a suspected terrorist would be an appropriate subject for a criminal investigation.


6 posted on 08/21/2005 10:00:35 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: wm_tate

Remember the Clinton 5 step:
1. Lie and spin
2. Attack the source
3. Intimidate the source
4. Destroy the evidence
5. Change the topic.


7 posted on 08/21/2005 10:43:43 AM PDT by b4its2late (Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.)
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To: Mia T

I think that once the FLOOD GATES start to crack and the REAL TRUTH about Bill and HIll hit the FAN, they won't be able to stop it. Have you noticed how the American People have totally IGNORED the MSM spin and seen through their TRANSPARENT explainations and excuses for not doing their duty. Deflecting all of the responsibility to Bush. This is the set up, this is the Game Plan: Blame Bush!!

We need a Third Part President and a Third Party PRO-AMERICAN Congress to straighten this country out!! These people are covering for each other, for thier own and their Parties UnAmerican gain.


8 posted on 08/21/2005 12:00:52 PM PDT by 26lemoncharlie ('Cuntas haereses tu sola interemisti in universo mundo!')
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To: wm_tate

Important article, thanks! Interesting how the various people on the 9/11 Commission and its staff who knew exactly what the OIPR is and how it oversees intel and surveillance issues across a variety of departments and agencies failed to point this out or examine the implications.... can't imagine why they would be part of the cover-up.

Instead, lots of people "in the know" have until now allowed the FALSE impression to be created that Gorelick's 'wall' memo was just an in-house commentary on a very limited piece of legal terrain. Now we are finding out that it had far wider impact and implications across multiple departments....

Gorelick and lots of other people need to be giving sworn testimony before a Congressional inquiry, and certainly not Arlen Spectre's judiciary committee! It's hard to have confidence in anything the Congress could do on this, but maybe there needs to be a joint House/Senate investigating committee with full subpoena powers. Otherwise, maybe the intelligence committees -- Pat Roberts usually seems pretty good, and he chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee..... that might be the best hope for a real investigation and ACTION.


9 posted on 08/21/2005 12:45:32 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: wm_tate; Peach; Grampa Dave; STARWISE; ravingnutter; nuffsenuff; justshutupandtakeit; ...


This is so important because it is more evidence that the impact of Gorelick's 'wall' went far beyond the Dept. of Justice. Captain Ed has an excellent follow-up on this article:

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/


10 posted on 08/21/2005 12:52:06 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Enchante

Yes. I fear that the MSM is going to let this devolve into a He Said/She Said about whether Atta's name was specifically passed along to the 9/11 Ommission rather than the important issue: that the Clinton Administration's wall prevented Able Danger from passing on information that possibly could have prevented 9/11.


11 posted on 08/21/2005 12:53:41 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate; doug from upland; ScaniaBoy; Peach; backhoe
According to Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon and at least one officer with Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence unit had identified 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers a year before the attacks and they wanted to take that information to the FBI. They say the officers were prevented from doing so by attorneys, apparently with the Department of Defense.

The Wall memo, though, was addressed to the Clinton Administration official responsible for making sure that the Defense Department adhered to the memo's guidelines, making it irrelevant which Clinton Administration lawyers instructed the officers not to take to the information to the FBI information. Either way, that decision was a direct result of the new procedures set in place by Gorelick, Attorney General Janet Reno, and -ultimately- Bill Clinton: putting responsibility squarely in their hands.

Good find! This ties a few loose ends together. Worth pinging the research folks.

12 posted on 08/21/2005 12:59:28 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Fairtax.org)
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To: ovrtaxt

Not long from now, Jamie Gorelick is going to be on the other end of the questioning. Raise your right hand, *itch.


13 posted on 08/21/2005 1:04:08 PM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming -- INDICTING HILLARY)
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To: doug from upland

She's in the crosshairs for sure. I wonder if she'll be spared by the 'new tone'.


14 posted on 08/21/2005 1:11:28 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Fairtax.org)
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To: ovrtaxt

Thanks! It wasn't that hard to research. The evidence is right there in the memo. This policy was NEVER meant to be limited to the Justice Department alone, and history shows the policy was, unfortunately, followed. Help spread the word!


15 posted on 08/21/2005 1:28:04 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

Oh, I am-I just posted the CQ article on another thread. Good find. Things are rolling along nicely now.


16 posted on 08/21/2005 1:32:10 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Fairtax.org)
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To: wm_tate

Some questions to ponder:

(1) Who is the "two star" General who got in Col. Shaffer's face and ordered that no more effort be made to share Able Danger info with the FBI? Are there Clintonlite appointees in the DIA who were suppressing this thing, both before and after 9/11? Are they still there? Have they been able to bury or destroy evidence?

(2) Was the shut-down of the Able Danger program done by lingering Clintonlites? Why was it shut down? Who was responsible for its records after early 2001?

(3) After 9/11, was there any kind of cover-up within DOD about Able Danger? Were records moved or destroyed once someone realized that information to stop 9/11 had been available but had been suppressed by lawyers and the unnamed "two star" officer?

(4) What is going on within DOD now?? Why can't simple questions be answered such as whether Col. Shaffer's story is basically on target? Is Shaffer spearheading a genuine effort by Gen. Shoomaker to clean house and get to the bottom of this, or is Shaffer being sacrificed by officers and DIA bureaucrats unwilling to join his effort?

EITHER SHAFFER IS WRONG IN HIS RECOLLECTIONS, OR THERE IS A LOT OF EXPLOSIVE INFO WAITING TO EMERGE, OR THERE HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL COVER-UP AND DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE.


17 posted on 08/21/2005 1:33:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: ovrtaxt

Gorelick will pay for this. Americans will come to understand just how she, through the Clintons, undermined American security. She went waaaay beyond what the law required.


18 posted on 08/21/2005 6:55:02 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: b4its2late
"Remember the Clinton 5 step:

1. Lie and spin

2. Attack the source

3. Intimidate the source

4. Destroy the evidence

5. Change the topic."

I believe it's actually 6 steps.

Number 3b. would be to murder the source.

19 posted on 08/21/2005 6:59:16 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: b4its2late

You forgot # 6 - having a willing media follow lock step with you.


20 posted on 08/21/2005 8:06:33 PM PDT by GianniV
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