Gorelick holds the smoking gun

Heraldtribune.com ^ | April 19, 2004 | Richard M. Swier

[joinedafterattack]

The 9/11 commission may have found the smoking gun that prevented the FBI and CIA from "connecting the dots." The smoking gun is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act created in 1978. The FISA, in and of itself, meant the "old national intelligence service in place on Sept. 11, 2001, was destined to fail," according to testimony Tuesday by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

To add fuel to the fire, a memo dated March 4, 1995, raised the bar or "wall" that kept our FBI and CIA from talking and sharing information, which directly impeded on-going terrorist investigations. This memo was implemented by Jamie Gorelick, a 9/11 commission member and former deputy attorney general under the Clinton administration.

The wall created by the memo "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid al- Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi," Ashcroft testified. After the FBI arrested Moussaoui, agents wanted to access his computer, but because of the Gorelick memo they feared doing so. Because of this and other impediments caused by the wall, 9/11 was destined to happen.

As pointed out by an FBI investigator referring to the wall in a memo to FBI headquarters, "Whatever has happened to this -- someday someone will die -- and wall or not -- the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain 'problems.'"

It turns out we have found the enemy and it is us. The post-Vietnam, anti-war and anti-government hysteria led to FISA. Deputy Attorney General Gorelick added new and ever more onerous restrictions to it. We have found the smoking gun. She sits as a member of the 9/11 commission.

End of investigation.

Richard M. Swier

[b4its2late]

BTTT

[IncPen]

The smoking gun is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act created in 1978.

Hmm. Who was President in 1978?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Memo March 5th 1995 was the smoking gun.

PDB - Ausust 6th 1996 the finger on the trigger.

[Bigun]

"It turns out we have found the enemy and it is us."

Truer words than these have never been spoken!

[TBall]

This is just crazy! How long can the press ignore this tremendous conflict of interest? Gorelick is one big shit sandwich and they better start eating.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Liverlips Jimmah Cahtah. He's running for sainthood now, I hear.

[Walkingfeather]

We need to praise Ashcroft for pulling the trigger on this publically.

[kitkat]

Great article. Thanks.

[Polyxene]

What an image -- and right before lunch, too!!!! ROFL!!!

[Polyxene]

Open wide, GORE-LICK!!!

[cricket]

["It turns out we have found the enemy and it is us.". . ."Truer words than these have never been spoken!]

I would offer that the more true would be/is. . ."we have found the enemy and it is the Liberals."

. . .and of course, we have known that all along.

[Sender]

I want full disclosure of the Gorelick phone calls that seem to have stopped the TWA800 and OKC investigations!

[An.American.Expatriate]

While I would LOVE to blame this on Carter, he really had no choice on this - the public was demanding (as too the Congress) that this act be passed. He probably supported it, but then again so did Reagan & Bush I. President Reagan actually "worsened" the situation with several executive orders.

Up until 9/11 - NO ONE would have dreamed of questioning the FISA Act. The author is right - WE did this to ourselves.

Enough headhunting already! Let's find a way to make it work AND protect our rights - it CAN be done.

[Cyber Ninja]

The 9/11 commission lacks all credibility.
Commissioner Gorelick has no eligibility
To be on any commission
With a better legacy mission
Like you sandwich, it lacks all edibility.

~<8o

[vaudine]

They have been ignoring this particular law and its implications for years. I read about it not long after 911--in Human Events, I believe. Never saw or heard about it in mainstream.

vaudine

[observer5]

If Condy could have pulled that during her public testemony it would have been more effective!!

[cwb]

"To add fuel to the fire, a memo dated March 4, 1995, raised the bar or "wall" that kept our FBI and CIA from talking and sharing information, which directly impeded on-going terrorist investigations."

Even worse...it built a wall within the FBI, itself, that prohibited its intelligence gathers from sharing information with its criminal investigators. People who worked in the same buildings weren't allowed to share information with each other. It was planned failure from the start.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

How much longer will this commission be questioning people?

Or maybe a more simple question is:
Are they working on any sort of deadline for the results of their "investigation"?

[Sal]

I want full disclosure of the Gorelick phone calls that seem to have stopped the TWA800 and OKC investigations!

Especially as Gorelick wrote her terror facilitating memo on March 4, 1995, a month and a half before OKC. I would certainly never imply that she MEANT to grease the way for the Islamic contingent of the bombers to get away with it, but she did accomplish exactly that.

Later president Scumbag said that the bombing resurrected his failing presidency. But that certainly does NOT mean it was intended. It's just that it couldn't have worked better if it had been planned.