Live 9/11 Commission Thread [testifying today Freeh, Reno, Ashcroft]

April 13, 2004 | Vanity

[Peach]

9/11 Commission. Now on C-Span.

Chairman Thomas Kean has asked the audience to refrain from clapping.

Louie Freeh, former FBI director, up at 9:30.

Business matters being taken care of now by the Commission.

[Petronski]

Disappointed gnashing of teeth in DUmmyland. Be warned of the bad language...those who aren't swearing are speechless.

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm assuming it was Gorelick who wrote the 1995 regulation - she was with the DOJ at the time.

[cyncooper]

I broke the pledge for just one minute to go to MSNBC in time to hear Matthews say Ashcroft struck a real blow to Gorelick and Lester Holt asked if this puts into question her presence on the commission.

I mean REALLY. Her conflict has been as plain as day since we all got wind of it, and it takes Ashcroft to make it crystal clear that she had taken positions like that. That should have been obvious well before today, but the left needs to be clobbered over the head with unparsable facts before they concede a point.

ACK.

I did not tarry at MSNBC and am back at Fox, but if even Matthews gets it, Jamie's tenure may really be in doubt.

[Howlin]

He said that Gorelick did not respond to Ashcroft's accusation.

Matthews is so off on these things; it has to be purposeful.

Now he's talking about Clinton maybe trying to assassinate OBL:

MON: Memorandum of Notification

Matthews is saying that Ashcroft is wrong, that Bill Clinton approved a plot against OBL and that when Ashcroft said today that he didn't have approval to kill OBL -- or that he didn't get it -- he was wrong; that Clinton had left them wide open for it.

I think Matthews is wrong.

BTW, in case you're wondering, Chrissy's guests tonight are - tada -- BV and "The Wives," as he now calls them.

[LisaFab]

Official Dem talking point from Chrissie: the overnight battle will deal with Clinton's MON (memo of notification) ordering the assassination of bin laden.

[cyncooper]

My husband, who is not particularly political, says they are afraid of Ashcroft and never laid a glove on him.

He's right.

[alwaysconservative]

Just finished Richard Miniter's "Losing bin Laden" and thought it was TERRIFIC in its explanation of all of the Clinton failures. Between that book, Freeh's and Woolsey's comments, and Ashcroft's testimony, x42 and Reno look like Keystone cops.

[mewzilla]

Who needs the mainstream media? :)

[MamaLucci]

Who cares what they think, they have what, 6000 viewers?

[isthisnickcool]

I'm still listening to C-Span. What a bunch of nutcases they have that call in.

[Steve_Seattle]

Just wait for the Dems - who have been screaming to declassify documents - accuse Ashcroft of unethical behavior for having Gorelick's memo declassified.

[Howlin]

If he left a MON, why doesn't THIS administration know about it?

And if he did leave one, perhaps the Bush adminstration decided his MON was no authentic or legal?

[mtbopfuyn]

That's what I thought but didn't know. Thanks.

[Pukin Dog]

Rope-a-dope is a wonderful thing, eh?

[pragmaticgal]

If such a MON exists, Clinton pulled it out of his a$$.

[LisaFab]

Lester Holt is actually discussing Gorelick's "The Wall" memo with former VA gov Jim Gilmore. Was actually spinless.

[muleskinner]

Will the lunatic Widow Mariani be amongst them?

[Carolinamom]

My Amazon book order arrived Saturday, and Miniter's book is next on my list to read.......if I can stop reading FR and watching the news. LOL

[EllaMinnow]

BTW, in case you're wondering, Chrissy's guests tonight are - tada -- BV and "The Wives," as he now calls them.

Oh, barf! Are they all going out for drinks after?

[petitfour]

I am listening to the dude right now saying that Reno seemed to recall more clearly stuff from the distant past and Ashcroft could not. hahahahahahahaha what a nutcase!