I cannot tell you how many times I have resented some of this week's media coverage of the 9/11 anniversary, because no one is mentioning the one person that should be implicated in the intelligence community's failure to identify the threat.
PBS broadcast a report this past Tuesday by Rachel Martin who seemed to have no idea about Jamie Gorelick’s actions that strangled the CIA.
Countless others blamed the failure on the Bush people.
I sat listening to the tripe without one mention of this:
“It should be noted that when Gorelick penned the aforementioned memo**(see below), President Clinton was extremely worried about ongoing FBI and CIA investigations into illegal Chinese contributions that had been made to his presidential campaign.
“Both the FBI and the CIA were churning up evidence damaging to the Democratic Party, its fundraisers, the Chinese, and ultimately the Clinton administration itself.”
Think Charlie Trie here.
“It was also a period when the FBI had begun to systematically investigate weapons-technology theft by foreign powers, most notably Russia and China.
Think Loral Space Systems. Clinton give aways, not theft.
Think Clinton moving overseas technology transfer approval authority out of the Defense Dept. to Ron Brown's Dept. of Commerce.
“Had FBI agents been able to confirm China's theft of such technology — or its transfer of that technology to nations like Pakistan, Iran and Syria — Clinton would have been forced by law and international treaty to react (and to thereby jeopardize the future flow of Chinese money into his political coffers).”
**In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:
“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.”
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