9-11 COMMISSIONER JAMIE GORELICK SHOULD RESIGN . . [DC Chapter Press Release]

April 15, 2004 | Kristinn

[BillF]

For Immediate Release

Contact: Kristinn Taylor April 15, 2004
D.C. Chapter of Free Republic
[email address]

9-11 COMMISSIONER JAMIE GORELICK SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY AND TAKE HER SEAT IN THE WITNESS CHAIR INSTEAD

CHAIRMAN KEAN NEEDS TO REIN IN ARROGANT COMMISSION, STARTING WITH HIMSELF

(Washington) The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic, an independent grassroots organization today issued a statement supporting the calls of House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and the Landmark Legal Foundation for the resignation or removal of Jamie Gorelick from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission.

This week it has become apparent to all except Democrats and those with the insiders club mentality of Washington that Ms. Gorelick is hopelessly conflicted as a commissioner. Her position as Deputy Attorney General from 1994 to 1997 in the Clinton administration should compel her to be testifying in front of the commission instead of being a member of it.

Chairman Kean, who has allowed the public hearings of the commission to descend into a circus, needs to remember who he works for. His comments yesterday demanding that the American people and their elected representatives “stay out of our business” is reprehensible and arrogant beyond belief.

The attacks of September 11 happened to all Americans. Chairman Kean and the other commissioners are accountable to all of us, not just the vocal partisan 9-11 families who cheer and clap as if the hearings were a sporting event.

“The contemptuous ‘we know best’ attitude of Chairman Kean and Commissioner Gorelick is exactly the attitude that made our nation so vulnerable. Ms. Gorelick needs to go, and Mr. Kean needs to remember he is nothing more than a servant of the American people,” stated Kristinn Taylor, Co-leader of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic.

On the web: www.dcchapter.com and www.FreeRepublic.com

[daybreakcoming]

Wonder what kind of turnover they are having with employees who answer the phone calls of unhappy Americans? I have this visual of them screaming at each other, throwing phones, banging heads on walls, etc. Wonder what it pays.

[Toespi]

WHEN in the Course of human Events,
it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

[hoosiermama]

Scenario II:

Gorelick travels by small private plane ........and is never heard from again.

A large funeral service with all her friends is televised on CSPAN.

[thulldud]

there has to be care that the pressure doesn't go past the threshold where Gorelick will actually resign.

Don't worry about that. This commission is on the way to attaining the same level of arrogance that gave us the enlightening definitions of "is" and "sex". The DIRTXPOTUS has set a thumping example for them, and they are going to live up to it.

Resignation? That's only for people who have reason to fear that the Clintons might release damaging information about them. Remember Filegate?

[nutmeg]

Excellent work as usual, Dio!

I already e-mailed the 9/11 Commission demanding Gorelick's removal (and to have Mansoor Ijaz testify in public and to put an end to Commissioners' media appearances), but will do so again, and will put Thomas Kean in the e-mail subject line. Thanks for that info.

[NJJ]

Finally, I said that if Gorelick stays, the commission will have no credibility . . .

They should appoint a commission to investigate this.

[nutmeg]

Excellent letter! (#48)

[Spotsy]

Isn't it time to call in for instance Kissinger, Mitchell, and Kirkpatrick to form an alternative 9/11 commission. The present is tainted by partisanship beyond belief.

I second that idea! And we can't get the big guys and gals, Free Republic should set up its own 9/11 Commission.

[Danette]

She was hoping you'd get tired of playing "phone tag" and just give up....lol.

[nutmeg]

Contact the 9/11 Commission and DEMAND THAT JAMIE GORELICK BE REMOVED!

Phone the 9/11 Commission at 202-331-4060

E-mail the 9/11 Commission at info@9-11commission.gov. (Put Thomas Kean in the subject line)

[ladyinred]

Thank you Kristinn! I am so grateful that you released this. That Keane ah, person, needs to be taken down several pegs! The nerve of that guy!!!

[Spotsy]

While terrorists are plotting to strike us again, the commission is preening and putting on a display beyond the pale.

Great letter to Kean!

[nutmeg]

Thanks for the ping!

[Prince Charles]

Hear, hear!

[ladyinred]

On Aug. 22, 1996, just before the Democratic National Convention, Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI. mmediately after this meeting, as it happened, all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.

This becomes more sinister by the minute. Thanks for this information. What evil!

[ladyinred]

Excellent. Will the public ever really know the damage that administration did to us? This is why they are so desperate to blame this on President Bush.

[ladyinred]

The democrats have been looking for a "smoking gun" to blame 9/11 on someone. They finally found one, and it was in their own hands. Jamie Gorelick's memo in 1995 was the single biggest factor causing the intelligence meltdown that enabled 9/11.

They are covering up for Clinton.(Bill, and even more likely, HILLARY, who made the policy in the WH)

[ladyinred]

Kristinn for President in 2008!!!

I'll second that!

[gonzo]

Lemme see: Vote.com Does that work? Of course it does!.............FRegards

[Enduring Freedom]

According to a Republican staffer on the 9/11 commission, growing public and pundit outrage over commissioner Jamie Gorelick's failure to disclose the existence of a Justice Department memo, had chairman Gov. Tom Kean asking Gorelick yesterday morning if she would think about stepping aside.

"The word is she was asked whether she might consider it and she flat out shut him down," said the staffer. "We're in an extremely difficult spot on this."

Gorelick's conflict of interest came to light on Tuesday afternoon, when a newly declassified 1995 Justice Department memo written by her when she was serving as Deputy Attorney General was presented to the commission by Attorney General John Ashcroft during public testimony. The memo, which mandated policy that, as it turned out, made it almost impossible for counter-terrorism investigators to pursue the 9/11 plot before it unfolded, surprised Gorelick's fellow commissioners and staff because, staffers said, she never disclosed its existence to any of them.

Kean's quiet attempt to press the issue on Gorelick's situation comes at a time when there were mounting calls for the former Clinton political operative to step aside from not only the House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner but families of 9/11 victims concerned that the commission's report would be tainted by her presence.

Those families were also calling for Gorelick to be called before the committee to explain her role in devising a legal impediment that contributed to the intelligence and law enforcement failures to combat and prevent terrorist acts.

But according to former Clinton staffers, it's doubtful Gorelick will budge. "She's on that commission for a reason, and it isn't because of her brilliant legal mind," says a former DNC and Clinton White House staffer. "She's there to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno."

It isn't just Gorelick who is now in hot water. Based on their remarks on Wednesday and Thursday, both Kean and fellow commissioner, former Sen. Slade Gorton are taking heat from 9/11 families for telling critics during TV interviews to stay "out of our business."

Those remarks came in response to questions about Gorelick's conflict of interest.

"We've got to get these guys out of the limelight," says the Republican 9/11 staffer. "Kean has enjoyed the media spotlight a little too much. Remember, most of these guys are has-beens. They haven't experienced this much attention in years. In a matter of two days they have managed to undo six months of good work that was done under the radar screen. A few more days of this and the commission's work will be tainted."