[KarlInOhio]

If I had known that when we tripled the counterterrorism funds none of it was put into improving the data processing and interconnecting with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, if I had known that the Executive Order I signed fairly early in my Administration ordering the CIA and the FBI to exchange high-level people and cooperate more hadn't been done, I might have done so.

What about the "Chinese Wall" between the FBI and CIA which was increased by Clinton appointee Jamie Gorelick? I think that was primarily to keep the FBI from seeing the CIA's info on Chinese campaign payments and illegal purchase of ICBM technology. Now why is that same Gorelick on the commission to investigate the inaction which led to 9/11?

[hermgem]

Why is Gorelick on the commission?
Quite simply, if you want to hide a person from testifying, put him or her on the jury and claim this jury is a bipartisan one.
Democrats landed their biggest coup to make Gorelick a member of the jury. There would have been no way to prevent her from testifying. She was the one that wrote the rules of disengaging the FBI from the CIA. She is uniquely qualified to reveal who the person or persons were that gave her this directive.
Grant the Democrats to have come up with a master stroke.