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The Truth About 'the Wall'( Gorelick Memo)
The Washington Post ^
| April 18, 2004
| Jamie S. Gorelick
Posted on 04/18/2004 7:11:04 AM PDT by Ramonan
Edited on 04/18/2004 7:16:56 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has a critical dual mission to fulfill -- to help our nation understand how the worst assault on our homeland since Pearl Harbor could have occurred and to outline reforms to prevent new acts of terrorism. Under the leadership of former governor Tom Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the commission has acted with professionalism and skill. Its hearings and the reports it has released have been highly informative, if often disturbing.
Sept. 11 united this country in shock and grief; the lessons from it must be learned in a spirit of unity, not of partisan rancor. At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that "the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents" and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; gorelick; gorelickmemo; learntoformat; notanexcerpt; paragraphsarefriends; presidentbush; thewall; truthaboutthewall; waronterror
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To: PMCarey
Nope, not hard logic at all.
An "independent commission" cant be called independent if they are examining themselves. Any person with such a major role as Gorelick in terrorism policy pre 9/11 has no business on the commission.
Otherwise, we could have saved the trouble of bringing all these old suits out of the closet and made it the Tenet/Ashcroft commission. (hmmm, on second thoughts that wuld have been a more balanced and professional commission.)
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posted on
04/18/2004 9:26:04 AM PDT
by
WOSG
(http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
To: backhoe
Hey, backhoe!
Here's that documented liar and pig Gorelick trying to defend her aiding and abetting the terrorists in attacks that killed 3,000 Americans!
Claims the commission is NOT a finger-pointing charade of jack-in-the-box clowns. She denies that the "commission" is comprised of Democrat operatives who are trying to blame Bush and namby-pamby Republican go-alongs! Hilarious stuff!
I'll go add it to the links.
LH
To: Ramonan
Naturally, Gorelick runs to DNC mouthpiece 'The Washington Post' to get this lame "I-didn't-do-it-nobody-saw-me-you-can't-prove-anything" piece of drivel published.
To: Ramonan
Why is she addressing this in the Washington Post? If she wants to say that AG Ashcroft is lying, then why didn't she counter him during his testimony? Or, why doesn't she testify herself?
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posted on
04/18/2004 10:53:00 AM PDT
by
kenth
To: Ramonan
First, I did not invent the "wall," No, Ms. Gorelick, you didn't. But your memo raised it higher. By the memo's own admission: it "goes beyond the existing legal requirements".
You've still got some 'splainin' to do, lady.
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posted on
04/18/2004 11:17:22 AM PDT
by
okie01
(www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
To: kenth
Tht 9/11 commission is a farce!
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~
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posted on
04/18/2004 11:34:55 AM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: Lancey Howard
bttt
To: Ramonan
bttt again
To: okie01
First, I did not invent the "wall,"Should have done what Reagan said:
"Ms. Gorelick teardown that wall!"
To: stylin_geek
Another Cinton person refusing to admit they are wrong.They can't possibly be wrong. After all they are the brightest, most intelligent and loving people on the face of the earth. They told me so themselves.</sarcasm>
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posted on
04/18/2004 2:15:14 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: reg45
Well, the world is made up of gray nuances.
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posted on
04/18/2004 2:17:59 PM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: Ramonan
Also posted here:
The Truth about 'the Wall'
Posted by Piranha
On 04/17/2004 11:07:15 PM PDT with 139 comments
The Washington Post ^ | April 18, 2004 | Jamie S. Gorelick
To: Ramonan
My fellow commissioners have spoken for themselves in rejecting the call by a few partisans that I step aside based upon false premises.A few partisans? Most polls are showing over 90% wanting her removal!
I have worked hard to help(thwart) the American public understand what happened on Sept. 11. I intend -- with my brethren on the commission -- to finish the job.
She is finished...
To: Ramonan; Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog
Gorelick writes -
"The purpose of my memo was to resolve a problem presented to me: facilitating investigations on both the intelligence side and criminal side at the same time.From National Review Online 4/13/04 - Commissioner Gorelick, as deputy attorney general the number two official in the Department of Justice for three years beginning in 1994, was an architect of the government's self-imposed procedural wall, intentionally erected to prevent intelligence agents from pooling information with their law-enforcement counterparts.
She can clear up everything just by swearing in...
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posted on
04/19/2004 3:46:49 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Hillary, I want my FBI file back...)
To: Libloather
I've got her seat right here:
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posted on
04/19/2004 3:51:59 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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