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Gorelick's got to go! Hugh Hewitt blasts 9-11 Commission for cronyism, arrogance
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 04/20/2004 10:35:17 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Gorelick must go

Posted: April 21, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

In Sunday's Washington Post, former Clinton administration senior official Jamie Gorelick wrote about her tenure as Deputy Attorney General and her now-infamous "building a wall" memo that has become a centerpiece of the debate over why the 9-11 terrorists could move through the United States without detection.

The issue is not whether "the wall" was a necessity compelled by law, or whether the early decisions of the Bush administration to keep "the wall" in place were themselves correct, as Gorelick asserted.

The only issues are who is going to judge the issue of "the wall," and whether Gorelick ought to be among them?

When 9-11 Chair Thomas Kean growled last week that voices objecting to Gorelick's membership as a judge of the panel deciding the wisdom of her own record should "stay out of our business," the folks who heard him recoiled first in shock and then in anger. Of course the Commission is not pursuing its own business, but the country's business. Kean's outburst tells us all we need to know about the clubby, chummy partnership at work to protect Gorelick at the expense of Commission credibility.

Kean might have more usefully argued that the 9-11 Commission is already so thoroughly discredited by the antics of Commission hack Richard ben Veniste, with assists to Robert Kerrey and Tim Roemer, that not even Gorelick's glaring conflict of interest could do any additional damage. The disease has metastasized, he might have argued, so why bother with surgery on a patient that cannot be saved?

But that's not what Kean blurted out. Rather, he angrily claimed ownership of the process and declared Gorelick non-partisan and bi-partisan in the same breath. Some other Republicans joined the "Defend Jamie" club, a tribute to Washington, D.C.'s legendary stick-together imperative.

By all accounts Gorelick is well and widely liked in D.C. But so what? Could the chief of Dallas Police have served on the Warren Commission? No central figure in the decisions leading up to the intelligence collapse that failed to see 9-11 coming can sit on the commission – period. She can recuse herself from A, B and C all day long, but that doesn't make her qualified to judge the alphabet. She's a witness – not a judge – and she's got to go.

Even a year from now, this will be completely obvious – as obvious as it is today. There isn't a serious student of government ethics that can offer any plausible case for keeping Gorelick on the job. Just expediency and friendship mixed together – her self-interest, and the loyalty of her friends.

Her real friends should buy her dinner, and perhaps a weekend at a nice resort where she can bind up her wounds before returning to appear before her ex-colleagues under oath and on television. Unless this transpires, the Commission, already a comedy full of clowns, will turn into a bitter tragedy for Americans expecting an inquiry and answers – not another piece of Clinton-era political performance art.





TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911commission; christianlife; gorelick; hughhewitt
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1 posted on 04/20/2004 10:35:18 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407

Washington Office*
Tel: (202) 331-4060
Fax: (202) 296-5545 info@9-11Commission.gov

New York Office
Tel: (212) 264-1505
Fax: (212) 264-1595
info@9-11Commission.gov

Family Liason Office
Tel: (212) 264-1505
Toll-Free: 1-866-862-0556
Fax: (212) 264-1595
familyliaison@9-11Commission.gov


Keep the pressure on. Send an email to the commission NOW.

Commissioner Gorelick IS in conflict, she IS culpable and she MUST resign. The failure of the Commission to take steps against Commissioner Gorelick indicates a disturbing lack on credibility on the part of the Commission.
2 posted on 04/20/2004 10:39:02 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Vote Bush 2004-We have the solutions, Kerry Democrats? Nothing but slogans)
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To: JohnHuang2
But Washington needs all the committees and commissions it can think of for unemployed bureaucrats.

The sarcasm is getting deep.

3 posted on 04/20/2004 10:42:24 PM PDT by TYVets ("An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlein & me)
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To: JohnHuang2
Her real friends should buy her dinner, and perhaps a weekend at a nice resort where she can bind up her wounds before returning to appear before her ex-colleagues under oath and on television.

Why? - - So she can be questioned by those same commission chums? Can you imagine the platitudes and softballs that those pathetic grandstanders would throw her way? Nah - - why bother?

At this point, the credibility of the "9-11 Commission" is hopelessly shot down the toilet forever. The commission is dead and all that's left is for somebody to put one last bullet in its corpse. But more likely, it will just fade away.

Hopefully, they'll wrap it up soon, but whatever report they finally release won't be worth the paper its written on.

4 posted on 04/20/2004 10:59:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ladyinred; Angel; ..

Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!


5 posted on 04/20/2004 11:02:36 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2; generalissimoduane
Look . . . a person who should be under investigation by the Commission is ON the Commission.

It was intended to be a farce from the outset.

It will remain a farce no matter what we do.

6 posted on 04/20/2004 11:20:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (LESS government please, NOT more.)
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To: JohnHuang2
I have a headache.

ping, ow, ping, ow

=o)

7 posted on 04/20/2004 11:24:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Any help with Blender 3d is NEEDED =o))
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To: Lancey Howard
Why bother?

Because she should never have been even considered for this commission. She knew full well she should not be on the commission and is therefore on it for ulterior motives. Any respectable, honorable candidate would have excused herself before even being put on the committee. She did not - WHY? WHY?

The committee is a fraud as the protection of her place on the committee even when she should be a witness shows. If they were sincere - they would have immediately corrected the error and called on her as a witness.

They are giving her a pass when they have not done so on any other official. That is why!!!

8 posted on 04/21/2004 12:01:17 AM PDT by ClancyJ (It's just not safe to vote Democratic.)
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To: JohnHuang2
I really like Hugh Hewitt. He won't call out the communists in the RAT Party and 'go that far', but he must deep down see zillions of dots that can be connected and show the picture clear as a long eye's day.
9 posted on 04/21/2004 12:03:14 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (FREE 3D Online Golf Game - Independent Reseller of the Week: http://egolfinternational.com/wig)
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To: JohnHuang2
Gorelicker had to hide somewhere, so why not hide her right on the commission that should be interrogating her like a hound on red meat...the DemocRAT Party relies so heavily on stupid, self-centered people that it amazes me this nation keeps afloat.
10 posted on 04/21/2004 12:05:14 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (FREE 3D Online Golf Game - Independent Reseller of the Week: http://egolfinternational.com/wig)
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To: JohnHuang2
Time to write more snail mail. :-)
11 posted on 04/21/2004 12:15:26 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: ClancyJ
(From a recent story)

But according to former Clinton staffers, it's doubtful Gorelick will budge. "She's on that commission for a reason, and it isn't because of her brilliant legal mind," says a former DNC and Clinton White House staffer. "She's there to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno."

12 posted on 04/21/2004 12:18:24 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: JohnHuang2
Bump
13 posted on 04/21/2004 12:24:07 AM PDT by AnimalLover
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To: JohnHuang2; All
-GORELICK GATE: Developing--
14 posted on 04/21/2004 12:52:34 AM PDT by backhoe (Another artifact left over from The Decade of Fraud(s)...)
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To: JohnHuang2
Even a year from now, this will be completely obvious – as obvious as it is today. There isn't a serious student of government ethics that can offer any plausible case for keeping Gorelick on the job. Just expediency and friendship mixed together – her self-interest, and the loyalty of her friends.

Business as usual. Appalling. They take a life and death, national security issue and turn it into a club for preening and career advancement - partisanship encouraged to keep the ratings up.

15 posted on 04/21/2004 1:10:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
hey hey,
ho ho,
jamie gorelick's
gotta go.
16 posted on 04/21/2004 1:14:36 AM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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To: Robert_Paulson2
hey hey,
ho ho,
jamie gorelick's
gotta go.
17 posted on 04/21/2004 1:24:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Lancey Howard
And, we are supposed to sit back and let them use taxpayer money for a fraud?

If she is allowed to stay and not be a witness - the committee is a fraud period. I am familiar with that article. Yet, there are republicans on that committee that can stop the fraud and abuse of taxpayer funds and I expect them to do it. They need to stand up and quit the nonsense of egomania, cronyism and cry foul.

Unless the committee is legimate and fair - they are not serving the purpose for which they were created. It is not fair with her on the committee.
18 posted on 04/21/2004 1:41:06 AM PDT by ClancyJ (It's just not safe to vote Democratic.)
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To: doug from upland; ALOHA RONNIE; DLfromthedesert; PatiPie; flamefront; onyx; SMEDLEYBUTLER; Irma; ...
"By all accounts Gorelick is well and widely liked in D.C.
But so what?
Could the chief of Dallas Police have served on the Warren Commission?

No central figure in the decisions leading up to the intelligence collapse that failed to see 9-11 coming can sit on the commission – period.

She can recuse herself from A, B and C all day long, but that doesn't make her qualified to judge the alphabet.

She's a witness – not a judge – and she's got to go." - Hugh Hewitt

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19 posted on 04/21/2004 2:22:15 AM PDT by RonDog
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send your letter the commission now. bttt
20 posted on 04/21/2004 2:28:10 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (illegitimo noncarborundium)
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