The Clintons will be happy with that, since the report was going to be critical of them.
The Clintons will be happy with that, since the report was going to be critical of them.It was always inevitable that the Clintons get some of the blame for 911; in truth they deserve it all for not getting ben Laden before the end of 2000.
The existence of the Gorelick Commission didn't change the fact that the Clinton Administration had to get some blame - but when you deserve all of it and you are able to deflect half of it to your opponent, you dance in the streets. And that is what the Gorelick Commission is designed to do, and was doing - until Ashcroft torpedoed the commission amidships.
Now the issue is no longer "What did Bush know, and when did he know it?" Now the issue is, "What part of the government's failure to effectively respond to the series of antiamerican Islamic terrorist acts which lead up to 9/11 does not have Jamie Gorelick's fingerprints on it?" And in reply to Kean's "stay out of our business," the issue is "What kind of dork is it who thinks the prime suspect in the case should be the investigator of the case?"
Even more pointedly the question must be, "Even if you put the prime suspect in the witness chair instead of the commission bench, how does the commission question her if all the remaining commissioners, especially their chairman, are on record as rejecting the idea of investigating her?" It appears that the commission is hopelessly compromised. It should disband.