From the summer of 2000 on into the following year, sources said, the FBI was forced to shut down wiretaps of Qaeda-related suspects connected to the 1998 African embassy bombing investigation.
====
So the FBI had to shut these down while Clinton was still in office. Gorelick involved in this in any way?
Janet Reno reprimanded Resnick too:
In May 2002, the New York Times was retracing the steps leading up the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy. Times reporters made reference to the Radical Fundamentalist Unit and speculated after interviewing more than a dozen senior policy makers and law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, that “in the summer of 2001, the government’s counterterrorism apparatus was too lumbering, too compartmentalized and too inattentive to grasp the emerging pattern.” The New York Times continued that the FBI had been reluctant to pursue certain leads because one of their agents, Michael Resnick, was reprimanded by Attorney General Janet Reno for “filing misleading affidavits’ to the courts to try to obtain search warrants to eavesdrop on people “suspected of being foreign agents of international terrorists.” Resnick, who was working under the radical Fundamentalist Unit of the FBI, is described by the New York Times as the FBI supervisor in charge of coordinating the surveillance operations related to Hamas.
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/April/3%20o/Asleep%20at%20the%20Wheel%20and%20Not%20Minding%20the%20Store%20By%20Michael%20Saba.htm
But here's a nicely ironic quote from near the end of the Newsweek piece -- the moral:
What Americans should be asking is why the Bush administration in its first eight months, like the Clinton administration for much of its eight years, did not demand the intelligence cooperation that was needed. At issue is not whom to blame for the past, but how to learn from it to safeguard our future.