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re: Gorelick

The 9/11 Commission did a cover-up of so much Clinton-era malfeasance, ineptitude, and non-feasance, and Jamie Gorelick was right at the heart of everything as "THE FIXER." Many others bear various degrees and kinds of blame, but clearly Gorelick was put in position to be the "gate-keeper" for information flow to the commission and for what issues the commission actually pursued. The fact that the commission never took seriously the catastrophe of "the wall" which Gorelick was instrumental in creating in 1995 indicates the complete lack of good faith effort to truly understand how the 9/11 plots succeeded.

Gorelick had a powerful personal conflict-of-interest with the proper purposes of the 9/11 Commission, since any proper investigation of the causes of 9/11 would highlight her policies for the Justice Dept., in light of the info on "Able Danger" it is very likely that Gorelick also had a similar harmful impact upon how the "Pentagon lawyers" (who used to report to Gorelick when she was GENERAL COUNSEL for the DOD) understood the law and their duties.

Gorelick and Reno were told from early on (by Mary Jo White in NYC) why their 'wall' (which was more restrictive than anything the law required) would obstruct counter-terror investigations, but they ignored the warning from a person far more knowlegeable than either of them about investigations of terrorism. Gorelick had to cover up so many misdeeds of the Clinton years, but a good part of it started when she ignored these words from Mary Jo White:

"Our experience has been that the FBI labels of an investigation as intelligence or law enforcement can be quite arbitrary depending upon the personnel involved and that the most effective way to combat terrorism is with as few labels and walls as possible so that wherever permissible, the right and left hands are communicating."
Mary Jo White June 13, 1995