April 14, 2004Gorelick Plan To Block Action on 9/11 Panel Findings(2004-04-14) -- Despite calls for her resignation from the 9/11 commission, former Clinton administration deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick today announced an "innovative plan" to prevent the commission's eventual recommendations from being put into practice.
The proposal, reminiscent of Ms. Gorelick's now-famous 1995 finding which protected potential terrorists from uncomfortable legal proceedings, would place "a wall between the commission's findings and actual implementation."
"We must maintain the constitutional separation between testimony and action," said Ms. Gorelick. "If the 9/11 commission findings resulted in organizational or procedural changes in government, it would have a chilling effect on such panels. How could you get qualified people like me to serve on commissions if they feared that their speculative theories and ideas would be proven impractical through implementation?"