Call on Jamie S. Gorelick to Resign from the 9-11 Commission (click here)

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[jmstein7]

Call on Jamie S. Gorelick to Resign from the 9-11 Commission

From the AP:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner called on Jamie Gorelick to resign from the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote as a deputy attorney general on separating counterintelligence from criminal investigations. "Scrutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work," said Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Ms. Gorelick has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in questions."

On Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft released the declassified 1995 memo from Gorelick containing instructions that "more clearly separate" counterintelligence from criminal investigations. He said the "wall" between counterintelligence and criminal investigations was a key impediment to terrorism probes before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, also has called on Gorelick to step down, citing the memo.

A phone message left with the Sept. 11 commission was not immediately returned Wednesday.

I ask you to send the following email -- or your own -- asking Ms. Gorelick to do the right thing and step down.  Please flood the commission with these emails.

Send the email to the following address: info@9-11Commission.gov; info@9-11Commission.gov

You may also phone the commission here: 

Tel: (202) 331-4060

Fax: (202) 296-5545

Sample email is as follows:

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Subject:  Do the Right Thing -- Resign

Dear Ms. Gorelick,

Please do the right thing and step down from the 9/11 Commission.

In 1995, as Deputy Attorney General of the Clinton Administration, you drafted and signed a memo creating a wall between counterintelligence and criminal investigation, a key impediment to terrorism probes before the Sept. 11 attacks.  As House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner averred, "[s]crutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work."

This presents a severe and impermissible conflict of interest.  There is "an inherent conflict of interest as [you are] the author of this memo and [are] a government official at the center of the events in questions."

Ms. Gorelick -- please do the right thing.  If America is to believe that the 9/11 Commission is not merely a partisan sham aimed solely at damaging the Bush Administration, you must resign your position in light of this gross political conflict of interest.

I trust you will do the honorable thing and resign.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME, YOUR ADRRESS, ETC.

 

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[AuntB]

This is interesting:
http://www.twa800.com/news/wnd-3-16-04.htm

9-11 Commission stonewalls TWA 800 author

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Posted: March 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Dear Chairman Kean,

Al Salzenberg of the 9-11 staff suggested I write you a letter to express my dissatisfaction with the progress of the 9-11 Commission.

On or about Feb. 20, I talked to Mr. Salzenberg at some length about one very specific concern I had with the commission. I was impressed with the time he gave me and the fact that he seemed, at least, to take my information seriously.

My concern was with the presence of former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick on the commission. Immediately after the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996, Justice Department attorney Valerie Caproni fully ignored existing statutes and gave the FBI power over the National Transportation Safety Board in the management of the investigation.

In a stroke, as I explained to Mr. Salzenberg, the Clinton Justice Department hermetically sealed the investigation and silenced the independent voices of the NTSB. Ms. Caproni could not have acted on her own authority. As the "political officer" equivalent in the Justice Department, Ms. Gorelick likely orchestrated this takeover – one that all parties now acknowledge to have been illegal.

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.

The search was now on for a rationale to explain away both the explosive residue and the stunningly specific testimony of 270 eyewitnesses. This fully misdirected inquiry would result in the two most egregious corruptions of the investigation.

The first was the FBI's claim that a dog-training exercise in St. Louis six weeks before the crash resulted in the spilling of the explosive residue found on the plane. The second was the CIA's claim that a 3,200-foot climb by a nose-less TWA 800 fooled the eyewitnesses into thinking they had seen a missile.

The CIA based its theory on an eyewitness interview that never took place. This can be easily proved. The FBI based its theory on a dog-training exercise that never took place. This, too, can be easily proved. Both fabrications were conscious.

As I explained to Mr. Salzenberg, mine was not a crank call. I had written a book on TWA Flight 800. I had just the day before undergone a smart three-hour interview by the History Channel on the subject. I understand the political dynamics of the investigation better than anyone who was not actively complicit. As I explained, too, there is excellent reason to believe that Gorelick's dubious role in the TWA 800 investigation contributed to New York's vulnerability in the days leading up to Sept. 11.

I suggested that Gorelick may have been appointed to the panel to discourage any connections from being made between July 1996 and September 2001. I could see no other reason why she would leave her cushy gig as vice chairman of Fannie Mae to serve as one of only five Democrats on the commission.

Mr. Salzenberg promised that he would look into the Gorelick issue and get back to me. Three weeks later, on March 10, I called him. I explained again who I was and what my concern was.

"I have talked to 400 people since then," he said gruffly. He did not remember the call. I explained in more detail.

"Oh, you're that freelancer," he added dismissively.

"If it matters," I said, "I'm the executive editor of a respectable Midwest business magazine, and I've written a book on the subject at hand."

Mr. Salzenberg asked me what I wanted. It struck me that he did not even take notes on the last call or any call. I told him I wanted to share my information with the panel, and if need be, I would be happy to testify.

"Lots of people like to testify," he groused. "We can't handle them all."

"I know this subject better than anyone," I responded.

"If you want to make charges," he said, "you are free to use the public air waves or write books or letters to the editor."

"I'm trying to do my good citizen thing," I said. "I am trying to go through established channels."

"Well, we are trying to wrap up and get out our report," he said curtly, implying there would be no time, regardless of the quality of my information.

"Do I have any other official recourse?" I asked.

"Write a letter to the chairman," he snapped.

And so Chairman Kean, I write this letter. As a Garden State native myself, and the son of a Newark cop, I appeal to your sense of justice. If you refuse to even look at the fate of TWA Flight 800, you will have done your country a disservice. You will have justified the cynicism that now plagues the nation – and especially the aviation community. And you will have lost your own shot at greatness.

It is not too late. If you're game, I'll buy my own plane ticket.

Sincerely,

Jack Cashill
   

[giotto]

Dear Ms. Gorelick,

Please do the right thing and step down from the 9/11 Commission.

If Ms. Gorelick were interested in doing the right thing, she wouldn't have worked for Clinton in the first place, and she certainly would never have asked to be on this 9/11 Commission.

No, Ms. Gorelick is on this commission because she, and everyone else connected with the Clinton gang, knew that the best way to avoid having to answer uncomfortable questions was to be the one asking the questions.

[onyx]

Jack Cashill has to be ignored.
He doesn't suit their smear Bush agenda.
TWA 800 happened on Clinton's watch.
Can't have that.
No sirree.

[davidosborne]

BTTT..

Phone call made.. Spoke with a Ms. Marketa.. and faxed a letter...


Pass it on....

David

[BallyBill]

Step Down?? I want her grilled, maybe Michael Moore could take her place!!

[AuntB]

From America's Promise (Colin Powell???)web site (http://www.americaspromise.org/about/donors.cfm):

JAMIE S. GORELICK
Partner, Wilmer, Cultler and Pickering
Jamie Gorelick joined the America's Promise board of directors in April 1997. Jamie Gorelick's career has spanned the legal, policy, and corporate landscape. She was Vice Chair of Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages. She shared responsibility for overall management of the company, directs its efforts to reach underserved markets and oversees Fannie Mae's external relationships, legal and regulatory affairs. Ms. Gorelick, who previously served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States and General Counsel of the Department of Defense, has been a consultant to the government's effort to restructure the intelligence capabilities of the nation to better meet the challenges of terrorism. For nearly twenty years, Ms. Gorelick was a leading litigator in Washington, DC, representing major U.S. companies on legal and business matters.
Ms. Gorelick is vice chair of the Fannie Mae board and of the board of the Fannie Mae Foundation. She also serves on several other boards, including United Technologies Corporation; Schlumberger, Limited; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Harvard College Board of Overseers; the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Local Initiative Support Corporation; and The National Park Foundation, as well as numerous other philanthropic entities. She has received many awards, including the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Outstanding Public Interest Advocate of the Year Award, and the Women's Bar Association's Woman Lawyer of the Year Award. She is listed in Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business," and in Working Mother magazine's "Twenty-Five Most Influential Working Mothers in America." Ms. Gorelick is a graduate of Harvard College, where she was Radcliffe Orator, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

[stillafreemind]

Thanks for the link. I just wrote to her and asked her to do what she would ask any republican to do in the same spot. And..this time..do what is good for the country..we all have to sacrifice in times of war.

[E.G.C.]

Good afternoon, David. How's it going?

More than happy to pass it on for you.:-D

[pepperhead]

Now Gorelick has quietly left Fannie Mae, the federally chartered housing-finance corporation, and taken a position at the law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

Wasn't there some kind of accounting problems at Fannie Mae?

[Peach]

On C-Span reporters are asking 9/11 Commission chairs whether Gorelick should step down or resign due to her Wall memo.

Kean says no and that's it's a ridiculous question. She is in his mind one of the hardest, most fine and less partisan members of the commission.

[Peach]

On C-Span reporters are asking 9/11 Commission chairs whether Gorelick should step down or resign due to her Wall memo.

Kean says no and that's it's a ridiculous question. She is in his mind one of the hardest working, most fine and less partisan members of the commission.

[eleni121]

I sent an email to her law office and she responded with one word: "Charming". I guess I upset her...;>)

That was about 2 weeks ago. The heat is really on now and she probably won't reposnd but if anyone wants her email here it is:

Jamie.Gorelick@wilmer.com

[StarFan]

Thanks for including me in your first ping. I wrote to them yesterday but will do so again having listened to legal eagles explain why this is a gross conflict of interest.

[Eva]

Here's another bit of information on Gorelicks dirty tactics:

According to Schippers' 1999 book, "Sell Out," Jamie Gorelick was tasked with expediting the new rules under which criminal background checks were suspended for new immigrants

[anniegetyourgun]

Hehehe....she wouldn't know "charming" if it bit her on the butt.

[JulieRNR21]

Emails sent to cyberfriends & the 9/11 Commission.......thanks for providing the information.....PING to......FL Freepers

[MayflowerMadam]

I got the same canned "out of office" e-mail reply to mine yesterday. Sent a letter via snail mail in the end. I think they pay more attention to that than electronic, anyhow -- at least, that's what I've heard. (But it's SOOO slow!)

[Gumdrop]

I just sent an email to the commission. I happen to live in the county where Zacharias Mussauoui was being held on September 11, 2001! The coverage of the frustration of the Minneapolis FBI office has been intence in Minnesota. I am just so ticked off at the commission which is really just muddying the waters instead of trying to prevent further attacks.

Jamie Gorelick should have the integrity to resign, but then as a member of the Clinton Administration, the idea that integrity would be present in anyone of that group is an oxymoron.

[JulieRNR21]

Colleagues at Fannie Mae say Gorelick was too smart to stay with them forever. “She is the kind of person who needed bigger challenges,” says one admiring colleague. He added that as she had done at Janet Reno’s chaotic Justice Department, Gorelick had been the one to hold Fannie Mae together for the past six years.

This confirms what we have long suspected......Gorelick was cleaning up Reno's mess!

[pepperhead]

No, Ms. Gorelick is on this commission because she, and everyone else connected with the Clinton gang, knew that the best way to avoid having to answer uncomfortable questions was to be the one asking the questions.

Maybe she is just a ego maniac who just wanted to get her name back out there. Hell some lawyers made a career out of Washington show hearings. Ben-Veniste...cough...cough. I guess she thought no one would ever call her on what she done in the past. If she wasn't such a partisan hack they probably never would have bothered. Karma isn't it great?