Posted on 08/10/2005 4:56:36 PM PDT by philo
Yeah...and before Gorelick was busy setting up her "wall" at the DOJ, she had a stint as chief counsel for the DoD. This is where she helped set up a bureaucracy which gave lawyers a greater say over military matters.
From the refusal to kill UBL when we had a clean shot...to the failure to extradite him from Sudan--because according to the lawyers we didn't have enough for an indictment--Gorelick helped lay much of the foundation for the failures during the Clinton administration.
We have seen hints of this for months: Jamie Gorelick on the 9-11 Commission, Sandy Berger stuffing documents in his panties, etc.
Wait and see. Nice to see the beloved NY Post ran with the story.
See if it has legs...
Savage is awesome today.
Savage is awesome almost every day! ;-)
We should demand names of these bozos, who caused the attack on 9/11 to go forward. They are responsible for stonewalling and we need to know who they are and why they did it. It's way past time that someone pays for this horrible blunder.
Without them having committed a crime, on what grounds were we going to hold them?
Recently someone in Europe was caught with hundreds of false identification papers and he was let go.
Gorelick is a different matter. She has some serious explaining to do in terms of her willingness to serve on the 911 Commission when she was well aware that she had been instrumental in frustrating intelligence sharing that might have averted that mass murder. Her actions are obviously unethical and hopefully what she did was provably unlawful.
You forgot the Ruby Ridge murders and the blue dress distraction...etc.
Oh, yeah...right from her biography:
"Prior to joining Fannie Mae in May 1997, Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States, a position she assumed in March 1994. From May 1993 until she joined the Justice Department, Gorelick served as general counsel of the Department of Defense..."
It would appear that before she got busy building her "wall" with the DOJ, she was attempting to do something similar at DoD. The Clinton's fascination with treating terrorism as a "legal matter" came right out of all this manuevering.
This was an attempt to give lawyers the final say, even when it came to military decisions. And this was further exposed when you look at those operations that were nixed because lawyers got involved. Whether it was the cancelled operation to kill UBL when a drone spotted him, or the refusal to extradite him from Sudan--supposedly because they couldn't get an indictment--these decisions were all made by lawyers.
Even this latest story was a result of Reno/Gorelick policy that refused to even LOOK at Arabs for fear of being accused of racism or profiling. And all of this was also an extension of Clinton's Mid-East Peace legacy were he didn't want to appear biased against Arabs as he dealt with Isreal and Palestine. Yet, even with all this appeasement throughout the 1990's, we were still attacked on 9/11.
Relax. The next few days will determine if this has legs or not. I hope it has legs, not so much to apportion blame, but to change the policy for the future.
Stay cool.
The guy Savage was interviewing, the author of this article I think, said the slimes ran this story on the front page. And then another piece on page 13 of course. They(the slimes) know when their people are in harms way.
Well, it seems the FR has not even significantly picked this up. Look at the threads that are being bumped.
The bottom line is that Savage ,IMHO, has been right about "some" lawyers (he calls them "diaper, doper babies,") all along. Some lawyers are creating havoc in the country and this is a perfect example. PC rules were observed before the welfare of the country. And the result was 911 That's BS.
She is the one who wrote the infamous memo prohibiting the CIA from passing along information to the FBI. I would be very surprised if she wasn't leading the stone wall defense to prevent Able Danger information from being more widely disseminated.
Gorelick as a committee member is even a more blatant "in your face" insult to the American people than was Sandy Burger's lack of punishment for the violation of our national archives.
See the dots. Connect the dots.
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