GOP questions 9/11 panel credibility

Washington Times ^ | 4/17/04 | Stephen Dinan and Charles Hurt

[kattracks]

Top Republican House lawmakers, including Majority Leader Tom DeLay, say the commission investigating the failures leading up to the September 11 attacks has degenerated into partisanship that "not only undermines its credibility, it undermines the war effort and endangers our troops."

[sgtbono2002]

I would say the evidence of design error is now in a dump in New Jersey along with the remains of a few Hundred Americans.

[Freee-dame]

Ms Gorelick has been one of a very select few to see ALL the documents sent by the White House. I am sure that she has been the decision maker on Which documents the rest of the panel have been made aware.

I heard Gov. Kean questioned about Gorelick on the radio. He said that she is doing a good job, especially by reading the documents. Could anyone looking for a useful outcome from this committee have allowed this? It seems that most of these commissioners are just there for their fifteen minutes of (additional) fame.

My memory is that the Clinton administration, when under investigation, would send thousands of pages of documents carefully omitting the incriminating ones. For the important ones, many stonewalling tactics were employed.

[Palmetto]

Imply that the work of the committee is partisan and tainted with Gorelick left in place. Then when the report comes out, which no doubt, will be a partisan hatchet job on the GOP, as most of these stupid committee reports are, say the report isn't worth anything.

The problem with that strategery is that by having GoreLicker step down, walk twenty paces, turn around, and raise her right hand, this Omission could actually stumble onto something IMPORTANT:

1.) Clinton's Justice Department ignored CIA warnings of attacks, even prior to OKC bombing.

2.) Gorelicker wass curiously (and for me, infuriantingly) involved in micromanaging the TWA800 missile attack terrorist attack tragic fuel explosion.

3.) Gorelicker was curiously involved in micromanaging the OKC bombing coverup investigation.

4.) Through her stupid, stupid policies, Gorelicker erected the very intelligence bureacratic barrier that prevented the FBI-CIA from discovering the 9/11 plot.

By my count, she owes an explananation to nearly 5 thousand families.

She needs to testify.

[Palmetto]

AMERICA deserves it's OWN commission -- of people from inside, whose concerns in nearly all regards are inside concerns. A panel of County level Judges selected at random would make a fart more trust-worthy alternative. One whose motives are beyond reasonable suspicion.

Hell yes.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . one of the 10 commissioners, was instrumental in setting policy on the relationship between the FBI and intelligence communities when she was deputy attorney general.

Partisanship be damned. This is most certainly a substantive cause for blindness to the threats against us.

[Palmetto]

When these pictures appear of the Towers and the poor souls that perished, has any investigation ever been made into the faulty design of these buildings? If not, why not? An air force plane flew into the Empire State building a number of years ago and while there were casualties and an hole in the building - that was the extent of the damage.

Google is your friend

The plane that struck the Empire State Building was a B-25. The B-25 was a bomber so small, we managed to launch it off an aircraft carrier to carry out the Doolittle Raids in response to Pearl Harbor. This was long before we had catapults - to get a plane off the deck back then, it had to be LIGHTWEIGHT.

On that horrible day, when I heard that a 757 had hit one of the towers, I KNEW it was going down.

[meema]

bump to read later

[Palmetto]

See #26 for your "Design Flaw"

[bitt]

"There's a strategy about leaving Gorelick on the committee and maybe the GOP is setting the stage for that."

I think you are right, and I also HOPE that there is some sort of strategy going on with the Republican leadership not going MENTAL over some of the released information, i.e., they might all be on the same page building up to some sort of WHACK...what other explanation is there for very intelligent people letting this biased panel keep making "points"?

[prognostigaator]

Through her stupid, stupid policies, Gorelicker erected the very intelligence bureacratic barrier that prevented the FBI-CIA from discovering the 9/11 plot.

[maica]

My memory is that the Clinton administration, when under investigation, would send thousands of pages of documents carefully omitting the incriminating ones. For the important ones, many stonewalling tactics were employed.
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Exactly, and the stonewalling continues.

[TexasCajun]

The GOP leadership know who the hell Jamie Gorelick is!

Why didn't they complain about having an ex-Clintonite, 2nd in command at the Justice Dept, even on this panel!

[Dante3]

The panel has no credibility. The culprit is on the panel and the other memebers are not much concerned. Where did this loser Gorelick come from? How did a dimwit or mole or whatever end up in that position?

[maica]

Some recusal.

Source: American Spectator, Aug. 14, 2004. (Apr 14, 2004)


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Some recusal, to be sure!

It seems that what gets attention here on FR hits the dominant media about a week later. The Gorelick situation has legs.

[FairOpinion]

It's high time the Republicans start to speak up.

They should NEVER, NEVER have authorized the creation of this commission in the first place.

It is actually DAMAGING the US in a time of war.

[Carolinamom]

Thanks for changing that source date....I hadn't had my coffee and was out the door to visit an orchid sale!

[Republican Wildcat]

Indeed. They appointed someone to investigate herself.

They have no professional integrity, since the others don't appear to have objected, and they are all appearing on the talk show circuit as much as they can. They are in this to collect the big checks and get in the media spotlight.

[Dante3]

Exactly.

[RickGolden]

How about investigating the U.S State Department, Visas that Should Have Been Denied http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray100902.asp

[cyncooper]

"I think she clearly has some history and a particular viewpoint on this, and one I think raises some concern about her perspective," Mr. Cantor said.

I found a thread from May 2002 yesterday that has Lee Hamilton commenting with a "particular viewpoint", and he ended up co-chairing this thing.

Excerpt:

"I think this is a serious matter," said Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic foreign policy stalwart in the House of Representatives, who is now director of the nonpartisan Woodrow Wilson Center.

"You are sitting there as president getting information from the C.I.A. that there are members of Al Qaeda discussing hijacking of American airliners," Mr. Hamilton said, "and you've got information in the F.B.I. about the need to look for Middle Eastern men training at U.S. flight schools. That is a serious matter and I don't care what other information is coming across your desk, that calls for action."

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