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Do we have an actual date in 1995 for this memo? I don't see it.

Doesn't appear to be a date on the memo, which is unusual, memos usually have dates, and everyone seems to know it's from April 1995... but which exact date.

Freeper mfulstone on another thread, mentions that the OKC bombing happened on April 19, 1995 and wonders if this "separation" or "wall" might have been erected to keep the OKC investigation from being broadened (if, indeed, it post-dates April 19, 1995).

His exact words are: "The Gorelick rules were meant to ensure that "no 'proactive' investigative efforts or technical coverages" of terrorist suspects be carried out on U.S. soil."

Where is the date on the memo?

The Murrah Bldg in OK city was blown up on April 19, 1995.
Exactly what date in 1995 was that Gorelick memo published?

The contents of the memo may have been secret but its existence was not.
The date is Mar. 4, 1995.
So, yes, you can possibly lay Oklahoma City on it too :-)

Office of the Attorney General
Washington, DC 20530
July 19, 1995
MEMORANDUM

TO:

Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
Director, FBI
Counsel for Intelligence Policy

FROM: The Attorney General [signed: Janet Reno]
SUBJECT:

Effect of Procedures Governing FBI-Criminal Division Contacts During FI/FCI Investigations on Specific Instructions Concerning Separation of Certain FCI and Criminal Investigations

The memorandum issued by me today regarding procedures for contacts between the FBI and the Criminal Division concerning foreign intelligence and foreign counterintelligence investigations does not affect the specific instructions, contained in a memorandum from the Deputy Attorney General issued March 4, 1995, governing the separation of certain foreign counterintelligence and criminal investigations. Those instructions remain in effect.

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/1995procs.html
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