Reno: Nothing kept FBI from sharing info

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/14/04 | Murray Evans - AP

[NormsRevenge]

AP Photo/Charlie Dharapak

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno testifies before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.

[Oorang]

Time to increase Janet's meds.

[Bronzewound]

That's a picture of a man…it has to be.

[GeronL]

She means that the law never stopped her from doing anything...

[river rat]

Hey...Who woke up the drunken Dyke!

Semper Fi

[Diogenesis]

The Disgraced 911 Commission [by their own choice]

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"You think you are gonna ask me why I dared refuse repeat DOJ requests for investigations of dangerous illegal aliens.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why I arranged to stovepipe intelligence to make intraagency effective communication useless.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why illegal aliens who were felons became voters for our Democratic party.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why I OK'd the use of stolen FBI files on DNC computers.
Not a chance. Following LBJ, your gonads are in my fist.
Your FBI files are in my computer. Now go away. "

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"Some wonder whether [Clinton] was distracted by the legal and
political quagmire of the Monica Lewinsky case.
And even former Clinton aides now regret that the
battle with bin Laden and his Al-Qaida organization was never fully joined.
'Clearly, not enough was done,' said Jamie Gorelick,
a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
'We should have caught this. Why this happened, I don't know.
Responsibilities were given out. Resources were given. Authorities existed.
We should have prevented this.'

[mass55th]

Dopey journalists. The opening sentence of this article should say: "Contradicting his predecessor, Attorney General John Ashcroft...blah, blah, blah"

Since Reno testified first and made her comment, it was Ashcroft who contradicted her, not the other way around. These people are only trying to make it look like Ashcroft was the one who was lying. I hate the press.

[NormsRevenge]

Slate and that face break me up.. lol

GoreLick ... She needs her keester in the hot seat and answering questions under oath in front of this commission.

[TheConservator]

It's Slade, not Slate.

What Frau Reno claims, in the original article, is that nothing legally prevented the FBI from "following up" with the CIA.

That is true. Under the Gorelick memo, once the prosecution was over, the FBI was entitled to "follow up" with the CIA.

Of course, the prosecution might well last years. And whatever information the FBI had would have become stale or useless by that time.

So this is a typical Clintonism. It all depends on what you mean by "following up."

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, oops.

[sport]

The sad thing is that she has more testicles than all the Senate Republicans conbined.

[Bronzewound]

Sadly, you are right.

[clintonh8r]

Swamp Thing!!!

[BenLurkin]

"It was not really restrictions," she said. "It was exactly the opposite situation."

Trying to emulate Slick Willy by telling a BIG whopper and figuring the democrat faithful will drink thier koolaid again.

[E=MC²]

The sad thing is that she has more testicles than all the Senate Republicans conbined.

"She" is not called the rocky mountain oyster of S.E. Florida for nothing.

[JoeSixPack1]

She/it, has rekindled the hatred I suppressed as best I could for the duration of the x42i years.

The drooling double talk, the harsh demeanor, the semi-visible cloud of distrust that surrounds her, the clammy skin tone, the memories of Elian, Waco, all of it! How the heck did we survive this beast?? Or did we???

[b4its2late]

"I know of nothing

She should've ended the sentence there.
At least then she'd be telling the truth.

[BenLurkin]

From another, later thread about "Gorelick's Wall":

"When the CIA finally told the FBI that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi were in the country in late August, agents in New York searched for the suspects. But because of the wall, FBI headquarters refused to allow criminal investigators who knew the most about the most recent al Qaeda attack to join the hunt for the suspected terrorists.

"At that time, a frustrated FBI investigator wrote headquarters, quote, 'Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain 'problems.' "

[Lancey Howard]

No. Reno contradicted Ashcroft in her speech on Wednesday.