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Posted on 08/13/2005 7:17:11 AM PDT by Laverne
THE report of the 9/11 commission, once a best seller and hailed by the news media as the definitive word on the subject, must now be moved to the fiction shelves.
The commission concluded, you'll recall, that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon couldn't have been prevented, and that if there was negligence, it was as much the fault of the Bush Administration (for moving slowly on the recommendations of Clinton counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke) as of the Clinton administration.
Able Danger has changed all of that.
The 9/11 commission wrote history as it wanted it to be, not as it was. The real history of what happened that terrible September day has yet to be written.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Sign the petition to have Gorlick indicted as a co-conspirator.
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see #36
One Plane, One Terrorist.
Slams into tower-1, ricochets to tower-2, clipping the Pentagon before crashing into an open field.***
Actually they wanted to but Arlen Spector was busy.
"He worked with the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As a chief counsel for the commission he authored the controversial 'single bullet theory'."
as you referenced:
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=16201
Gorelick 'MemoGate': It Just Got Worse
Written by Gregory Borse
Friday, August 12, 2005
In March of 1995, Louis Freeh, then FBI Director, and Mary Jo White, the New York U.S. attorney investigating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, received a directive written by Jamie Gorelick, President Clinton’s number two official in the Justice Department. That directive—which has come to be known as the “wall of separation” memo—ordered Freeh and White to “go beyond what is legally required” in following information-sharing procedures between intelligence agencies and agencies charged with criminal investigations of suspected terrorists. At issue, seemingly, was a White House concern to avoid “any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance” that the civil liberties of terrorism suspects were being undermined.
As has come to light in the past few days, the Gorelick Memo seems to be at the heart of the non-passing of information discovered by a counter-terrorism military operation known as “Able Danger” to the FBI that Mohammed Atta and three of the other 9/11 hi-jackers had set up an al-Queda cell in Brooklyn, New York, as early as a year prior to the 9/11 attacks. Furthermore, the information that White House or Department of Defense attorneys denied “Able Danger’s” request to give that information to the FBI was furnished to staff members of the Sept. 11 Commission—of which Jamie Gorelick was a sitting member—as early as October of 2003. But that information was not given to Commission members then and does not appear in the Commission’s final report.
As has been reported in the New York Post today, by Deborah Orin, and quoted in a story on NewsMax.com (go here), Mary Jo White wrote to the Justice Department about the Gorelick directive, complaining, “It is hard to be totally comfortable with the instructions to the FBI prohibiting contact with the United States’ Attorneys Office when such prohibitions are not legally required.” According to Orin in the Post account, White was so frustrated that she sent a second memo excoriating the Gorelick “wall of separation” as “hinder[ing] law enforcement,” saying that its prohibitions “could cost lives.”
The questions now are why did Commission staffers not inform the Sept. 11 Commission members of “Able Danger’s” October 2003 report of prior knowledge of an al-Queda cell in Brooklyn, New York a year before the 9/11 attacks? Why is Mary Jo White’s testimony in the Sept. 11 Commission investigation not included in the Commission’s final report? And, finally, why was the Gorelick directive ever written in the first place?
An article from FrontPageMag.com from May of 2004 may shed some light on the reasons for the Gorelick directive (go here). The story suggests strongly that the Clinton Administration worked strenuously, in 1995, to re-organize the ways in which intelligence agencies like the CIA and FBI were allowed to communicate with each other and with U.S. Attorneys Offices investigating foreign and domestic espionage cases and that the Gorelick Memo itself is an outgrowth of policies erected under Clinton’s “Presidential Decision Directive 24”:
“In April [2004], CNSNews.com staff writer Scott Wheeler reported that a senior U.S. government official and three other sources claimed that the 1995 memo written by Jamie Gorelick, . . . created ‘a roadblock’ to the investigation of illegal Chinese donations to the Democratic National Committee. But the picture is much bigger than that. The Gorelick memo, which blocked intelligence agents from sharing information that could have halted the September 11 hijacking plot, was only the mortar in a much larger maze of bureaucratic walls whose creation Gorelick personally oversaw.”
That maze includes FBI and CIA investigations into the leaking and/or theft of sensitive missile and nuclear information to the Chinese even as illegal donations to the Democratic National Committee were being traced to Bill Clinton’s old Arkansas friend, Johnny Chung. The bureaucratic nightmare created by PDD 24 effectively stalled these investigations until safely after the 1996 Presidential Election, and led to, among others, Wen Ho Lee and the Los Alamos National Laboratory espionage case. As Mary Jo White wrote in her letter of protest regarding the Gorelick directive, PDD 24’s “instructions leave entirely to OIPR [Office of Intelligence and Policy Review] and the (Justice Department) Criminal Division when, if ever, to contact affected U.S. attorneys on investigations including terrorism and espionage.” And whom did Clinton appoint to head up the OIPR? An old friend of Janet Reno’s from Florida, Richard Scruggs. So, as FrontPageMag pointed out, “for the first time in the history of the Justice Department,” a political appointee was “put in charge of the Office of Intelligence and Policy Review (OIPR). OIPR is the Justice Department agency in charge of requesting wiretap and surveillance authority for criminal and intelligence investigations on behalf of investigative agencies from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.”
It must be noted that the Gorelick directive to Freeh and White explicitly mentions the FISA court and prohibits the sharing of information gathered by its investigative agencies with US Attorneys Offices.
The upshot of PDD 24 was that all investigations into espionage activity—including efforts by the CIA, FBI, and the United States Military counter-intelligence operations (like “Able Danger”)—were to be overseen and approved (or not approved) by political appointees that answered directly to a White House that had every reason prior to the 1996 Presidential Election for keeping those agencies from sharing information with each other or with US Attorneys Offices.
It looks like the non-sharing of the “Able Danger” information by staff members of the Sept. 11 Commission with Commission members themselves is much worse than simply an effort to shield Jamie Gorelick for some responsibility for the intelligence failures that, it is now clear, helped to make the 9/11 attacks possible. What is becoming increasingly obvious is that the Gorelick Memo itself was perhaps part of a much larger effort by the Clinton Administration to shield itself from investigations that would imply its complicity in the passing of sensitive military and nuclear intelligence to the Chinese in return for millions in illegal campaign donations in the run-up to the 1996 election.
Representative Weldon—can you spell “MemoGate”?
For a related story, go here:
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=16180&catcode=13
About the Writer: Gregory Borse holds a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, and an MA and BA from the University of Dallas. Dr. Borse, a family man with "a beautiful wife and four beautiful children," enjoys writing, current events, media, politics, and disc golf. Gregory receives e-mail at gregorbo@sbcglobal.net.
Freepers were decrying the 9/11 Commission report as a work of fiction right after it came out. I never even bothered to read it after I found out who was on the board. Why am I not surprised to hear it was all made up?
"Actually, it seems that the Able Danger people were doing a very good job"
Say it again.
These people are patriots, they did a heck of job. I have been so ticked about this issue for the last 4 years thinking; why didn't someone sniff these people (Atta)out. We all know that people leave trails; data mining and other stuff that's out there should turn up bad guys.
It turns out that we were on top of them.
The traitors in charge (Clintons)were able to snuff out someones good work.
My level of cynacisim with politicians has taken a giant leap up the last few days.
I think the new motto for the Clintons now needs to be:
"They were supposed to watching our backs, instead they stabbed us in the back"
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0404/jkelly042204.asp
You've got the wrong Jack Kelly.
This one writes the (lone) conservative sunday op-ed in the pittsburgh post-gazette, the "sister" paper of the toledo blade.
the usa today jack kelly was another guy.
Why does no one even mention Al Gore when blame is being cast about? If he hadn't held up the 2000 election results with his whiny challenges and recounts, maybe W could have focused on getting his team in place so that when he took office he would have had more time to evaluate the current intelligence and FBI situation before 9/11.
more chuckles today.
very funny.
the one i've been working on is, what would happen to cindy sheehan and her "growing army of supporters" if... Janet Reno were Attorney General?
"Looks like the Dims and MSM have a lot of mud to sling to try to cover this gem up."
There aint enough mud in the whole world to cover up this mess.
As usual .. the dems have overplayed their hand. It's their elitist arrogance - and it gets them every time.
As usual .. the dems have not looked far enough into the future to make a proper judgement about the consequences of their actions. They make this mistake over and over and over.
Finally .. this mistake is so BIG and so OUTRAGEOUS .. they will not be able to hide this anymore.
And .. demographically .. the dems are in really, really big trouble. A democrat called Rush yesterday and he was LIVID over this revelation that his guy (Clinton) had the information about Atta and DID NOTHING. Demographics say that his phone call represents THOUSANDS OF CALLERS WHO FEEL THE VERY SAME WAY.
Get ready .. this is going to be an amazing transformation of how the public views the Clintons (in general). I believe this spells great doom for Hillary's chances of ever getting into the WH - because there is plenty of time to get most of this stuff out before a 2008 election. Hillary chose Gorelick for the Asst Atty General position. That information alone should doom Hillary's campaign.
Very good!!!!
I like it.
:-)
Very creative. Arlen Specter would be jealous.
Weldon will be on Fox with Brian Williams in a few minutes
Brian Wilson, that is.
If the media would simply report the truth about these incidents, it would force the Democrats to actually act in the interest of America, but because they cover up for them, they allow the Dems to lie and obfuscate with impunity.
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