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Mr. Kean,

I have these problems with the 9/11 commission:

Your statement to "stay out of our business" is totally reprehensible to me. I am a United States citizen and the 9/11 commission is MY business also. Your arrogant statement is beyond belief.

Jamie Gorlick should immediately recuse herself from the commission. Having initialed the memo for the creation of the wall, she is now in the middle of the investigation. She is sitting on the wrong side of the table. She should be providing testimony.

All 9/11 commission members should immediately stop making TV appearances. The preening of the commissioners is disgusting.

I'm seeing badgering from some commissioners of people who are testifying. Where's the decorum?

I would have thought, as one of the co-leaders of the commission, that you would have set rules in place for the behaviour of the attendees. The clapping and yelling out by the audience should have been nipped in the bud the FIRST day. You should have announced that the commission hearing will be closed to an audience if anyone displays any such boorish behavior. These people should have been asked to leave and told to watch the proceedings on TV.

However, even though you had rules, you apparently are not even obeying your own rules. If you did, Jamie Gorlick would be removed from the commission. I personally don't care how nice, or helpful, or cooperative, or non-partisan she has been. She is part of cause of the 9/11 tragedy
and not the solution.

Why were some 9/11 families allowed to provide testimony and others are not?

Why are some book writers allowed to testify and sell books and others are not? What you do for Richard Clarke, you should also do for Monsoor Ijaz. He should be allowed to testify IN PUBLIC also. Both have knowledge of events that led to 9/11, and Monsoor could also use all the free publicity too to make his book a best seller.

This commission is becoming a joke and the public is starting to sit up and take note of its partisan nature. I am no longer supporting this commission. I will continue to write all my representatives and ask them to cancel the commission NOW.

Remember that while Rome burned, the musicians kept on playing. While terrorists are plotting to strike us again, the commission is preening and putting on a display beyond the pale.

Newsmax
Friday, April 16, 2004 12:30 p.m.EDT
Levin: Declassify the Other Gorelick Memo

The next shoe to drop in the Gorelick-gate scandal may be a still-classified report on the Millennium bomb plot that faults Gorelick's "wall" of separation between prosecutors and intelligence gatherers for nearly blowing the Millennium Plot probe.

Writing in National Review Online, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin notes that the 9/11 Commission is sitting on a damaging post-Millennium-Plot report that chronicles the impact of Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive, which Attorney General John Ashcroft alluded to during his Wednesday testimony.

Ashcroft said the report, dubbed the Millennium After Action Review by the Clinton National Security Council, chronicles how al-Qaida's role in the Millennium Plot was nearly missed because Gorelick's guidelines blinded U.S. prosecutors to critical intelligence in the case.

Though a hunch by an alert Washington-state Customs agent led to the capture of would-be Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, when he was turned over to the Justice Department for interrogation, they "didn't have a clue who he was," Ashcroft told the Commission.

It took a French magistrate with full access to his own country's counterterrorism intelligence files to tip U.S. probers to the fact that they had nabbed one of al-Qaida's most dangerous operatives.

Ultimately, because of Gorelick's directive, the French magistrate had to travel to the U.S. and testify for seven hours to lay out Ressam's al-Qaida connection.

Said Levin:

The NSC's Millennium After Action Review — which, based on Attorney General Ashcroft's testimony, must be devastating in its analysis of not only this event but of the Gorelick policy — remains classified. ...

"Given all the past intelligence information that has been made public by the 9/11 Commission — including the August 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief, which had never before been released — there appears to be no legitimate basis for the 9/11 Commission keeping the Review under lock and key. It's time to release it."