[epluribus_2]

Roemer: 9/11 Report Will Be Used Not Just to Get Bush, but to Get Reagan and Bush I, Too! Freakin Threefer!!!

but will ignore X42 and Gorelick

[expatguy]

"has opened up a window into the inner workings and secret decision-making of government that's not been seen in 230 years and may never be seen again."

Our enemies are waiting with baided breath.

[theDentist]

Roemer said some of the needed changes might be structural and systemic, such as the creation of a national intelligence director who could better coordinate the disparate and spread-out intelligence community.

Isn't that the idea behind Homeland Security? Another boondoggle in the making.

[Zack Nguyen]

"We can't merely rely on billion- dollar satellites in the sky," Roemer said. "We have to do a better job of getting human beings into difficult situations and getting reliable information

I agree - perhaps liberals shouldn't have eviscerated the CIA.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He also said there is "no doubt about it" that the government, including Congress, the Clinton administration, the Bush administration, the national security council advisers, the border patrol, "you name it, we were slow to move from recognizing a state-sponsored threat, like the Soviet Union, to a brand new, transnational threat like al-Qaida."

THIS is news?

[ravingnutter]

If that position is created, Roemer said the new director would not oversee the FBI because of the need to separate foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.

Then what the sam hill is it good for? It is status quo...does someone need to remind this idiot about the following:

The memo grew out of the Justice Department's prosecution of the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center -- the act that apparently gave Osama bin Laden the idea to try again in 2001.

"During the course of those investigations," wrote Gorelick in 1995, "significant counterintelligence information has been developed related to the activities and plans of agents of foreign powers operating in this country and overseas, including previously unknown connections between separate terrorist groups." But Gorelick wanted to make sure that the left hand didn't know what the right was doing. "(W)e believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."

The problem, of course, is that the inability to share information is precisely what hampered federal agents in tracking down the 9-11 hijackers. As Attorney General Ashcroft testified, this artificial wall impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was arrested prior to the 9-11 attack, as well as Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, both of whom were identified by the CIA as suspected terrorists possibly in the United States prior to their participation in those terrible attacks. "Because of the wall, FBI Headquarters refused to allow criminal investigators who knew the most about the most recent al Qaeda attack to join in the hunt for the suspected terrorists," Ashcroft told the commission.

Town Hall

We still haven't seen Gorelick on the witness side of the table!

[RichInOC]

Dear Tim: The 9/11 commission report should be printed on toilet paper, because it looks as if that's all it's going to be good for.

[Cicero]

What a load of steaming horse manure. They forgot the (D) after his name.

[VOA]

Roemer: 9/11 Report Will Be Revealing

Seeing how it will be "The Gorelick-Clinton Report", we'll learn how well
Gorelick writes and how creatively Bill Clinton edits/fantacizes.