Nope, it was a slick move by the Slick One. Making the war on terror a criminal matter rather than a political and military one allowed them to hide the evidence of what they were doing. If this information had been turned over to the FBI and a criminal trial ensued, against the Muslims not the Democrats, the classified information would have been subject to discovery by the Muslims' defense attorneys. We could not afford to be sharing our intelligence with the enemy, thus "the wall".
The true purpose was to shield the Democrats lack of response to the terror attacks on us. In fact, with the war in the Balkins and the suck up to Arafat we seemed to be doing all we could to help the Islamists. Probably all in Slick's effort to get the discredited Nobel Peace Prize and, therefore, a legacy of more than a blue dress, a sink, multiple rapes and incidences of adultery.
And it wasn't the only slick move Willie made, was it, that let al Qaeda get away with murder.