Posted on 08/11/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT by Maria S
A member of the group, the "Jersey Girls," who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks, is defending 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick against allegations that, as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, she blocked critical intelligence that had identified the two 9/11 hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center.
"Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'" Lorie Van Auken told WABC Radio's John Gambling - referring to Ms. Gorelick's 1995 directive prohibiting intelligence agencies from sharing evidence on suspected terrorists with law enforcement.
Calling it insread "the Reno wall," Van Auken insisted that its primary impact was limited to the investigation into so-called 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui, where investigators were prevented from searching Moussaoui's computer until after the 9/11 attacks. Van Auken offered no comment on reports that the Gorelick restrictions bottled up critical intelligence on 9/11 conspirators Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, whose hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center.
But Rep. Curt Weldon, who revealed earlier this week that military intelligence had identified Atta and al-Shehhi as terrorist threats operating inside the U.S. two years before the attacks, blamed the Clinton Justice Department's "wall."
"There was no reason not to share this information with the FBI," he complained in a radio interview Wednesday night, "except that the firewalls that existed back then were so severe that they wouldn't let these agencies talk to one another."
It is once again late at night... and my conspiracy bended mind is released to suppose what it will.
What if the earlier terrorist attacks against the U.S. WTC, the USS Cole, and the embassy bombings served as a catalyst in the minds of some of our short sighted Liberal leaders.
The signs were all there in the 1990s, visible to anyone in a policy making position. Instead, a wall is erected to prevent the active and aggressive pursuit of domestic terrorist threats.
Our liberal friends have demonstrated a disregard for human life. What if Al Gore had won the election in 2000? What if they'd been able to take 9/11, prosecute a war on Al Qaeda, and implement their agenda for controlling the American populace? What would've happened in 2002? Would the Democrats have been able to take control of Congress? Would the Second Amendment have been a casualty on the War on Terror? What blame and shame game would the Democrats have used to get Americans to feel as if our polluting industries were the cause of terrorism? Would the Kyoto Protocol been approved in the Senate?
What power could 9/11 have handed to the Liberals? An attack pre-inauguration would've been an indictment of Bill Clinton. But an attack early on in a new administration could be blamed on a large number of things, like the confusion of the changeover between administrations, etc.
It is a good thing I'm only paranoid at the wee hours of the night. Living like this would make the day pretty depressing.
But one thought ran through my head after the initial shock of 9/11 wore off... Thank God Al Gore isn't President!
"Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'"
So she's honoring her husband's memory by shilling for the Democrats? Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to marry liberals.
"The leader of the Jersey Girl group is the daughter of a local central Jersey (Dem) politician"
If she was the daughter of a Republican, it would be big news. I have to conclude that the Jersey Girls and big segments of the news media are all whores.
"The Jersey Girls need to wake up."
The only reason the Jersey Girls exist is to trash Bush. Van Aucken's statements demonstrate that. How anyone can conclude that the only effect of this failure to share information was Moussaoui's computer is beyond most people's comprehension. She must have gotten one or more calls from her political handlers before she went on the air.
The talking points and spin orders are being worked on at a fever pitch in liberal headquarters around the nation at this point.
The left hopes this goes away.
We must not let this happen.
Peach, I respectfully have to disagree with you on this:
"Americans would have demanded action."
The mood in the country under Clinton was that he could do no wrong. Everyone was fat with their tech stocks. His approval ratings through impeachment stayed up around 65, and that was his second term. I think too many of the American people neither comprehended nor cared about national security matters until the buildings came tumbling down ... and that lasted maybe six months, then it's back to business as usual. Our purposeful ignorance will be the end of our civilization as we know it.
I know what you're saying, Endiva, but I do think the OKC blast was so horrific, with all those children who died, that when the connect the dots was starting to point to an Iraqi Republican Guard, that people would have demanded war.
I like to think I'm right about that, because if I'm wrong, the moral fiber of the country is so degraded that there's almost no hope for the long term survival of the country the way we know it.
I don't doubt what you say for a minute. There are big numbers of people in D.C. who's job is to handle these things.
This just PROVES that being a Democrat means more than being a wife or in Cindy Sheehan's case, a mother. Protecting a fellow traveller is all they care about.
Van Aucken's statement makes clear that she doesn't know what she's talking about. I can't see why anyone would take it seriously.
I hate to admit it, Peach, but I get sooooo cynical when I remember how Clinton just sailed through two terms and, despite the treachery, maintained huge popularity that continues to this day (thanks in no small part to 41 - go figure). That cynicism is somewhat offset by the election last year cause when it got down to it, the American people "got it" on national security. I'm from the last pre-babyboomer year so have wonderful memories of growing up with Americans having a common culture and set of mores. The Boomers just upended that ... alas, I have faith in today's 20-somethings to restore what their parents ruined.
I'm pretty cynical too, Endiva. And maybe I'm projecting too much of my own horror about OKC onto other people and assuming they would feel as I did if the facts about who helped carry that attack out were learned.
It is mostly women who helped get Clinton elected twice and the Oprahization of those women is in large part at fault for their ignorance.
One would think, if she was truly only interested in forwarding the cause of reform, that she would jump on this as an example of the institutional failures and strictures that need to be removed in order for future conspiracies to be stopped before harm can be done. One would think...
To me, this just shows how partisan and political some of the victims interest groups have become, and I am sad to say that it marginalizes what should have been a powerful voice for much needed change.
Peach .. omg, how can you have forgotten ??? It was TALK RADIO that caused OKC !!! Isn't that what the Slickster told us? When I think of that Opraization you mention, I want a repeal of the 19th Amendment ... and I'm a woman.
LOL. I do remember the Slickmister trying to blame OKC on talk radio and Rush. I can't say here what I'd like to say, but just insert every blue word you've ever heard and you'll get the idea.
And how often I've told my husband I'd like to see an IQ test before letting people vote and sometimes I think that letting women vote was not a good idea. Hah
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Thanks for those two articles. Has former Senator Thompson (R-Tenn) weighed in on the effect "the wall" had on his senate subcommittee hearings on the Chi-Com campaign contributions to Clinton-Gore? Now, more than ever, the Clintons need to be prosecuted under the RICO statutes.
It proves to me this "Jersey" girl cared more about crass partisan politics than the truth and memory of her dead husband. It is disgusting. Confronted with the truth, they choose the G**damn democrat party. Sick.
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