[Pearls Before Swine]

This is stunning news.

It is so stunning it is hard to believe. Its hard enough to understand Gorelick's Chinese wall policy, but you can chalk that up to blind politics. Specific protection of an individual when there is known intelligence is just unbelievable. Was Atta that outstanding, or was he just one of a number being protected under this misguided principle?

I can even understand them covering up now, but stonewalling the FBI while Clinton was in office? It doesn't make sense--what if the plot had taken place a year earlier, before the election? That wouldn't have helped the Dems.

[RSmithOpt]

Has anyone thought of the possible implications, more exactly, the extreme seriousness with "The Wall" memo and how it relates to our nuke info getting stolen? Not to mention China Gate and offshore political donations to the Dems in '96 and 2000?

[popdonnelly]

"I can even understand them covering up now, but stonewalling the FBI while Clinton was in office?"

True, it looks as though the FBI didn't know who Atta was or where Atta was. That was the effect of not getting information from the Defense Department.