The fact that Gorelick was chosen by Minority Leader Tom Daschle to be on the commission threw down a gauntlet. It said: It's perfectly fine to appoint to the commission someone who was in the thick of the Clinton counterterror strategy because we're not interested in exploring that. Yes, even three years after his Oval Office exit, the frantic efforts to shape Clinton's legacy proceed apace. Close, Andrew, look deeper. This was about maintaining the viability of the Democrats as a National Party.
Look at it this way. If the truth had come out in the full light of day AT THAT TIME, that Gorelick/DOJ and by extension Bill Clinton, the Democrats Idol, were actually responsible for allowing the 9/11 attack to happen, The Party would be finished in terms of EVER putting another Candidate in the White House.
So why did the GOP help them by appointing milquetoast pubbies who could be used as sock puppets and by staying silent when the most blatant partisan tactics were used by Democrat Commission members to steer the investigation away from the facts?