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DEEPER CIA LINK BY 9/11 PANELIST - GORELICK
New York Post ^ | 4/16/04 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST

Posted on 04/16/2004 1:08:45 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

April 16, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - New questions surfaced yesterday about 9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick's potential conflicts of interest after it was revealed she was more deeply involved in anti-terror efforts than has previously been known. Records obtained by The Post show that Gorelick, while serving in a top job at the Justice Department, met every two weeks with George Tenet, then the No. 2 official at the CIA, and headed then-Attorney General Janet Reno's national-security team.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911commission; cia; clintonfailure; clintonfailures; coverup; gorelick; gorelickmemo; sensenbrenner; sept11; whitewash
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To: Vigilantcitizen
Everybody....go to reply #58 and read the Jamie Gorelick mysterious phone call story about OKC!!!
161 posted on 04/16/2004 11:42:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave
"Anyone else listening?"

Yes! And PRAYING THE WHOLE FILTHY CLINTON, CLINTON & GORE, INC. FILTH COMES CRASHING DOWN ALL THE WAY BACK TO OKC & WACO!!!

I think Ashcroft has pulled the trigger in such a way that it'll all come unravelled on it's own, without the fingerprints of the Bush Administration on it!!!

SOMEONE HAS GOT TO FINALLY PULL THE RIPCORD ON THAT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!!! (I just can't stop being pist about what it's done to a Conservative America that had a "Contract With America!!!)

162 posted on 04/16/2004 11:43:18 AM PDT by SierraWasp (John Fallujah Kerry! Now we REALLY know what HE meant, by "Bring... It... On!!!" He sure DID!!!)
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To: SierraWasp; All
I think this is what he was talking about at the end:


Millennial Mistake
Jamie Gorelick’s dangerous “wall of separation.”

163 posted on 04/16/2004 11:47:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: All


Millennial Mistake
Jamie Gorelick’s dangerous “wall of separation.”

In his public testimony before the 9/11 Commission the other day, Attorney General John Ashcroft exposed Commissioner Jamie Gorelick's role in undermining the nation's security capabilities by issuing a directive insisting that the FBI and federal prosecutors ignore information gathered through intelligence investigations. But Ashcroft pointed to another document that also has potentially explosive revelations about the Clinton administration's security failures. Ashcroft stated, in part:

... [T]he Commission should study carefully the National Security Council plan to disrupt the al Qaeda network in the U.S. that our government failed to implement fully seventeen months before September 11.

The NSC's Millennium After Action Review declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 — with luck playing a major role. Among the many vulnerabilities in homeland defenses identified, the Justice Department's surveillance and FISA operations were specifically criticized for their glaring weaknesses. It is clear from the review that actions taken in the Millennium Period should not be the operating model for the U.S. government.

In March 2000, the review warns the prior Administration of a substantial al Qaeda network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S., capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here.

Furthermore, fully seventeen months before the September 11 attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al Qaeda network and terrorist presence here using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls.

These are the same aggressive, often criticized law enforcement tactics we have unleashed for 31 months to stop another al Qaeda attack. These are the same tough tactics we deployed to catch Ali al-Marri, who was sent here by al Qaeda on September 10, 2001, to facilitate a second wave of terrorist attacks on Americans.

Despite the warnings and the clear vulnerabilities identified by the NSC in 2000, no new disruption strategy to attack the al Qaeda network within the United States was deployed. It was ignored in the Department's five-year counterterrorism strategy.

I did not see the highly-classified review before September 11. It was not among the 30 items upon which my predecessor briefed me during the transition. It was not advocated as a disruption strategy to me during the summer threat period by the NSC staff which wrote the review more than a year earlier.

I certainly cannot say why the blueprint for security was not followed in 2000. I do know from my personal experience that those who take the kind of tough measures called for in the plan will feel the heat. I've been there; I've done that. So the sense of urgency simply may not have overcome concern about the outcry and criticism which follows such tough tactics."

What is Ashcroft talking about? An article in Reader's Digest, "Codes, Clues, Confessions" (March 2002; by Kenneth R. Timmerman), provides some valuable insight. It states, in part:

French counter-terrorism magistrate, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, first began tracking Ahmed Ressam back in 1996. As a Magistrate, he was allowed to use prosecutorial evidence, as well as share intelligence gathered by French intelligence agencies in his investigations and prosecutions. Between 1996 and 1999 he had gathered enough evidence to know that Ressam was part of al-Qaeda, what he called the "spider web." And that Ressam and al-Qaeda had made the U.S. a target, and that Ressam had moved from Europe to Canada at some point in 1999 to prepare his attack. Bruguiere shared this information with both Canadian and U.S. intelligence some time prior to 1999.

By March 1999, Bruguière had gathered enough information from terrorist cells he had broken up in France, Jordan, and Australia, to send a thick file to Canadian authorities, asking that they arrest Ressam and hold him for interrogation, but Ressam had already gone underground. 'On December 14, 1999 the news came of Ressam's arrest [near Seattle]. As you know, it was completely by chance. Just plain luck!'

U.S. Customs officer Diana Dean told the Digest she found the olive-skinned Canadian who identified himself as "Benni Norris" unusually nervous. The ferry from Vancouver had just chugged up to its slip at Port Angeles, Washington on the afternoon of December 14, 1999, and Norris lowered the window of his Chrysler 300. Despite the chilly air, he was sweating, Dean noticed. When she asked him to open his trunk, he bolted. After a brief chase, "Norris"/Ressam was arrested. In the trunk, they found 130 pounds of plastic explosives, two 22 ounce plastic bottles full of nitro glycol, and a map of LAX.

When the Department of Justice began interviewing "Norris"/Ressam, they didn't have a clue who he was. But Judge Bruguière did. He called the Department of Justice, and offered prosecutors his file on Ressam and his ties to al Qaeda. At the time, Bruguiere said, DOJ had no idea what a big catch they had, nor did DOJ have access to any intelligence about Ressam's ties to al-Qaeda. Ultimately, because of "The Wall" Bruguiere had to testify for seven hours in Seattle to lay out the al Qaeda connection to help U.S. prosecutors make their case against Ressam.

In other words, the "wall of separation" constructed by Jamie Gorelick made it virtually impossible for U.S. authorities to stop Ahmed Rassam, the "Millenium Bomber," by design or intention. It was left to blind luck. 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. And, most significantly, it's likely the Review's criticisms and warnings were either ignored or rejected by the Clinton Justice Department.

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.


164 posted on 04/16/2004 11:49:09 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: backhoe; Grampa Dave; FL_engineer; blam; Dog; Coop; Cap Huff
See my post above at #164, Rush mentioned it.
165 posted on 04/16/2004 11:51:58 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Howlin; onyx
See post #164, Rush has been referring to the article !
166 posted on 04/16/2004 11:53:15 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks- copied & saved so it can't vanish.
167 posted on 04/16/2004 11:54:30 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: mykdsmom
EVERYONE....Please read reply #70 and #58!!

I always thought that Jim Kallstrom LIED about TWA 800 and then QUIT the FBI!! Now I KNOW he lied..

Did Jamie Gorelick BLACKMAIL him???

168 posted on 04/16/2004 11:59:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Bryan24
Gorelick belonged to a group that wanted to DISBAND the CIA???? My God...it's worse than I thought!!
169 posted on 04/16/2004 12:11:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: maica
Your reply needs repeating.....it is BRILLIANT!!!!
170 posted on 04/16/2004 12:14:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Bryan24
I'm not surprised that Gorelick is DIRTY, but I'm SHOCKED that she's married to a guy!!
171 posted on 04/16/2004 12:16:15 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
That's because she couldn't remember if she had bugged it or not.

Don't laugh....according to the liberal translation of the Patriot Act, any person suspected of hindering the War on Terror can be subject to wiretap.

That would include Gorelick, IMHO.

Does the Bush Administration have the cajones to do it though?

172 posted on 04/16/2004 12:20:00 PM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for pinging me to this important bit of information. I'm swamped with work right now and can't find the time to read extensively. It really helps getting pinged to the big stuff.
173 posted on 04/16/2004 12:27:40 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Mo1
And this is a woman who may be the next atty. general if Kerry is elected? Good gosh.
174 posted on 04/16/2004 12:36:37 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Cap Huff
Here is a thread I just found on the Levin article , (decent summary of it):

Levin: Declassify The Other Gorelick Memo

175 posted on 04/16/2004 12:43:51 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Bryan24
The Murrah Building was blown up on April 19, 1995. Does anyone know the EXACT date that the "Wall" memo was written?

March 4, 1995, about six weeks prior, coincidentally enough.

Although undated, the date was ascertained by a later memo in July written by Reno which referenced it. Sorry I can't provide the link, which I can't seem to find right now.

The deeper one digs in this cesspit, the more this entire thing smells. We may have uncovered the tip of the Clinton Rosetta Stone (or rather, Ashcroft has, and we are just fleshing it out)!

176 posted on 04/16/2004 12:57:21 PM PDT by Gritty ("There is no fundamental Islam. There is only Islam"-M.Sharon)
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To: Just mythoughts
Re: 'shadow government'

Just a few years ago I would have thought any such idea was a tinfoil whackjob looney thought. But not now.

There have been too many disasters, no, attacks, that were neatly swept under the rug, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, case closed. Without knowing any hard facts, the circumstances surrounding the OKC bombing say there is NO WAY some lone militia members did that. All the witnesses of flight 800 say NO WAY was that a fuel problem. God only knows what else has gone by that was written off as unremarkable police business, move along.

Somebody, somewhere has the pull to hide all these messy issues under the rug and almost, almost got away with it. Does Gorelick know who?

177 posted on 04/16/2004 1:04:47 PM PDT by Sender (Support Free Republic...become a monthly donor!)
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To: OldFriend
Just more of the typical democrat treachery!

Which means .. as far as I'm concerned .. their plan to smear Bush isn't working and trying to blame Bush for choosing Gorelick is a last desperate gasp!
178 posted on 04/16/2004 1:17:39 PM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: Fracas
Daschle does what Hillary! tells him to.....and remember, his wife lobbied against Gore commission recommendations on airline security, to benefit her clients, the airlines, (who then generously donated to the Clinton/Gore reelection campaign.)
179 posted on 04/16/2004 1:20:16 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: kattracks
And to think gorelick was responsible for security at the summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Two terror attacks.....one in the venue and the other TWA 800.........it all becomes very clear now.

180 posted on 04/16/2004 1:21:13 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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