I've been perusing the bios of 9/11 Commission members and staffers. The following may be in need of close scrutiny for possible Democratic biases and/or conflicts of interest. The commission's website does not indicate party affiliations, so a lot of this is my guesswork, but the ones listed below strike me as at least worthy of more research. Certainly Jamie Gorelick and Richard Ben Veniste never should have been on the commission in the first place, but it would be interesting to know more about the staffers who were doing a lot of the legwork. I hope most of them were doing their patriotic and professional duty, but from what we saw of the public hearings and now this "Able Danger" fiasco, it's not hard to suspect that there were some 'moles' working more on behalf of the Clintons and the DNC than for the country.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bios_staff.htm Jamie Gorelicker and Richard Ben Veniste -- 9/11 Commission members who are obvious political hacks selected for their loyalty -- and in Gorelicker's case, because she certainly knew what avenues of inquiry must be blocked, distracted, diverted, etc.
Some selected 9/11 Commission Staffers possibly deserving closer scrutiny:
Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
Daniel Marcus, General Counsel of the Commission, was for many years a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering [ALSO JAMIE GORELICK'S LAW FIRM], serving on the firm's Management Committee from 1995 to 1998. During the Carter Administration Mr. Marcus was Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. He returned to Government service in 1998 [DURING MONICAGATE HE BECOMES "SENIOR COUNSEL" TO THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE] as Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel's office. From 1999 to 2001 he held several senior positions at the Department of Justice, [SO HE GETS REWARDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AFTER THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.... HMMMMM....] including Associate Attorney General.
Christopher Kojm, Deputy Executive Director
Christopher Kojm served from 1998 until February, 2003 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He served previously in the Congress on the staff of the House International Relations Committee, under Ranking Member Lee Hamilton as Deputy Director of the Democratic staff (1997-98), as Coordinator for Regional Issues (1993-1997) and under Chairman Hamilton on the Europe and Middle East subcommittee staff (1984-92).
[don't know for sure which of these are Democrat loyalists, but all seem to have either a possible conflict of interest with previous work done for Clinton's national security apparatus and/or some political connection that could indicate a reliable Democratic 'fixer' for the 9/11 inquiry]:
Scott Allan. Counsel. Former special counsel to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Practice and legal studies focused on international law. Law clerk for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
John Azzarello. Counsel. Former attorney at Carella Byrne in New Jersey. Former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office in Newark and a former legal commentator on Court Television Network.
Caroline Barnes. Professional staff member. Former Senior Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Analyst in the FBI's National Security Division. Most recently on special assignment from FBI to the Department of Energy, serving as founder and Director of the Department's Counterintelligence Analysis Program.
Warren Bass. Professional staff member. Former Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, directing the Council’s special terrorism project. Author of Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Oxford UP).
Dianna Campagna. Manager of Operations. Former principal director of Housing and Urban Development’s Executive Secretariat. Held management positions in real estate. Managed the paper flow and office systems in the White House Counsel’s office and, prior to that, at the White House Office of the Staff Secretary.
Lance Cole. Consultant. Assistant Law Professor at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Served as Deputy Democratic Special Counsel for the Senate Whitewater Committee.
Marco Cordero. Professional staff member. FBI Special Agent the last seven years assigned to investigate counterterrorism matters the last four years. Formerly with the U.S. Border Patrol.
Raj De. Counsel. Former litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers and former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Nicole Grandrimo. Professional staff member. Former regional affairs officer in the Office of Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department.
Barbara Grewe. Senior Counsel. Associate General Counsel GAO, working on investigations of fraud in government operations or contracts. Served as Special Investigative Counsel for DOJ Inspector General’s 9-11 review. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Len Hawley. Consultant. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, NSC Director for Multilateral Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting).
Christine Healey. Senior Counsel. Formerly with the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving most recently as Democratic counsel and chief of staff.
Walt Hempel. Consultant. Former Senior Special Agent with INS, served as a regional task force coordinator for narcotics and counter-terrorism. Most recently, special projects manager at DHS responsible for Federal, state and local law enforcement integration.
Michael Hurley. Senior Counsel. CIA officer and attorney. Served two tours at the National Security Council as director of Southeast European Affairs with responsibilities for Kosovo and Bosnia. Served in Afghanistan during 2002-2003.
Dana Hyde. Counsel. Former attorney with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (London) and Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington, DC). Served as special assistant to the deputy attorney general and as special assistant to the president for Cabinet Affairs in the Clinton administration.
Bonnie Jenkins. Counsel. Fellow at Harvard’s JFK School’s Belfer Center. Assistant director of the State Department’s Kosovo History Project from 1999 to 2001, formerly worked on the National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and as general counsel for the Commission on the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Also a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
William Johnstone. Professional staff member. Served for over 20 years as a senior Congressional staff member, most recently as senior policy advisor and legislative director for Senator Max Cleland. Formerly with the Department of Labor.
Stephanie Kaplan. Special assistant. Former assistant director for international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former associate with the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program of The Aspen Institute.
Daniel Leopold. Staff assistant. Recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. Interned at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Regional Affairs, the Foreign Service Institute, and the Defense Department’s Office of Public Affairs.
Charles Pereira. Consultant. Currently Senior Aerospace Engineer in the Vehicle Performance Division of the National Transportation Safety Board, with responsibility for investigating aviation, rail, and marine accidents. Some prior aviation investigations include the 1991 mid-air collision involving Senator John Heinz, the 1994 intentional crash of a Cessna 172 into the White House area, TWA Flight 800, USAir Flight 427, the USAF 737 crash in Croatia involving Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, the Aviation Charter, Inc. crash in Minnesota involving Senator Paul Wellstone, and the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Peter Rundlet. Counsel. Former attorney in the Political Law Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Former associate counsel to the President and White House Fellow, serving in the Office of Chief of Staff to the President.
Dietrich Snell. Senior Counsel. Deputy Attorney General, New York, Division of Public Advocacy. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York. Criminal Division.
Yoel Tobin. Counsel. Veteran attorney at the Department of Justice, working for the last seven years in the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.