The penalty for failure could be severe. "Massive networking makes the US the world's most vulnerable target," said William Studeman, former deputy director of the CIA. Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney-general, was even more blunt in her address to a Senate hearing on the subject: "We will have a cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor."
From The Sunday Times - May 17, 1998
Speaking at a Senate hearing last November, Jamie Gorelick, former U.S. deputy attorney general, was brutally blunt: "We will have a cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbour at some point, and we do not want to wait for that wake-up call." I [internet]-War, she added, "can disable or disrupt the provision of services just as readily -- if not more than -- a well-placed bomb."
The Ottawa Citizen - April 19, 1998, Sunday, FINAL EDITION
However, the IG report also said its investigation revealed that at least one official at the National Performance Review office "believed that the [citizenship] program had a deadline that was directly connected to the upcoming election."And then there's more info on Gorelick I also found this morning:That official, Douglas Farbrother, raised his concerns with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick and senior INS officials in March 1996 that the program was behind schedule.
Gorelick, formerly the number two person in the Clinton Justice Department is a Democratic appointee to the Commission charged with preparing a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Gorelick was an inappropriate choice for that position because she is a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. According to Newsweek, Wilmer, Cutler represents Prince Mohammed al Faisal in the suit by the 9/11 families. The families contend that al Faisal has legal responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.While the source is a web blog, it seems to be thoroughly researched with links to legitimate stories that back it up. It also questions whether Zelikow should also resign.
Those who have followed the fate of this disaster know that TWA Flight 800 is the 600,000 pound gorilla in the 9-11 commission's room. As we have previously documented, at least two of the stars of this commission – panelist Jamie Gorelick and former CSG head Richard Clarke – played key roles in the suppression of the true story of the plane's demise.
On Aug. 22, 1996, just a few days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI. Immediately after this meeting, as it happened, all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.
On the next day, for instance, the FAA began to inquire whether any dog-training exercises had ever taken place on the plane that would become TWA 800. On the same day, as CNN reported, the FBI now claimed publicly for the first time that the explosive residue found along the right wing "could have been brought on the plane by a passenger and was not part of a bomb." Likewise, after the meeting, the FBI would do no more eyewitness interviews, at least not for the next two months. The Bureau only did a handful after that – and all of those for the wrong reasons.
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Sure wish I could find a better source for this, but it does list the sources, albeit without links.
"Another Conspiracy Theory intrigued me because I could never disprove it. The theory seemed unlikely on its face: Ramzi Yousef or Khalid Sheik Muhammad had taught Terry Nichols how to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building. The problem was that, upon investigation, we established that both Ramzi Yousef and Nichols had been in the city of Cebu on the same days. I had been to Cebu years earlier; it is on an island in the central Philippines. It was a town in which word could have spread that a local girl was bringing her American boy friend home and that the American hated the U.S. government.
Yousef and Khalid Sheik Muhammad had gone there to help create an al Qaeda spinoff, a Philippine affiliate chapter, named after a hero of the Afghan war against the Soviets, Abu Sayaff. Could the al Qaeda explosives expert have been introduced to the angry American who proclaimed his hatred for the U.S. Government? We do not know, despite some FBI investigation. We do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned. We also know that Nichols continued to call Cebu long after his wife returned to the United States. The final coincidence is that several al Qaeda operatives had attended a radical Islamic conference a few years earliler in, of all places, Oklahoma City.
It backs up the theory that OKC may have been a huge cover-up by Gorelick and crew.
I don't know what that means, but I fired off an email to the 9-11 commission[for all the good that will do.].
Evidently there really is no difference between "non-partisan" and "partisan".
info@9-11Commission.gov