Interesting that Jamie Gorelick famous for creating the intelligence information wall was hand picked to chair the 911 Commission while operation Able danger was ignored.
able danger video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsM3oCsEJOE
This is from an article I posted at Newsbusters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671618/posts
People can say what they want of Ann Coulter denigrating the Jersey Girls, but it is clear these women were used to advance a political agenda including manipulating the 9-11 Commission. Ironic how the Left was eager to expose Enron executives but ignored the suspicion that head 9-11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick benefited financially from the $10.8 billion scandal involving accounting irregularities and outrageous bonuses at Fannie Mae. The Business & Media Institute’s Web site (www.freemarketproject.org) had a story titled “Media Ignore Democratic Ties to Fannie Mae Scandal,” which asserted: “The Business & Media Institute previously documented how much the media overlooked about Democratic connections to Fannie Mae. According to that April 2005 report: ‘Former Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines and former Vice Chairman Jamie Gorelick were both instrumental figures in the Clinton administration.’ ” Not a word mentioned during the 9-11 hearing about that news or the fact that as No. 2 in the Clinton Justice Department as Deputy Attorney General, in 1995 Gorelick was a key architect of an information “wall” causing intelligence lapses leading to 9-11. Gorelick’s participation on the 9-11 Commission clearly was a conflict of interest. A 2004 Washington Times article titled “Memos show Gorelick involvement in ‘wall’” noted: “Newly released Justice Department memos show that September 11 panel commissioner Jamie S. Gorelick was more intimately involved than previously thought with hampering communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism. As the No. 2 person in the Clinton Justice Department, Ms. Gorelick rejected advice from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who warned against placing more limits on communications between law-enforcement officials and prosecutors pursuing counterterrorism cases, according to several internal documents written in summer 1995.”
I am in agreement with syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin on her blog entry titled “9/11 Commission Ignored Key Facts On Hijackers,” In which she said: “The 9/11 Commission was supposed to give the American people a complete, unbiased story of the government failures that led up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But the Commission now admits its acclaimed Final Report ignored key information provided by a U.S. Army data mining project, Able Danger, which identified Mohammed Atta and several other hijackers as potential terrorists prior to the September 11 attacks. The Able Danger team recommended that Atta and the other suspected terrorists be deported. That recommendation, however, was not shared with law enforcement officials, presumably because of the ‘wall’ between intelligence activities and domestic law enforcement. According to the New York Times, the 9/11 Commission officials said that Able Danger had not been included in their report because some of the information sounded inconsistent with what they thought they knew about Atta. In other words, the Commission staffers were told about the project but ignored it because it didn’t fit their pre-conceived conclusions.”
YES, “Able Danger” really faded into oblivion, didn’t it?
And Gorelick’s presence on the 9/11 Commission should have invalidated the entire affair. At least, if we really wanted to get to the truth, instead of pandering to the other oft repeated mantra, “9/11 wasn’t anyone’s fault except Muslim extremists”.
Yes, it was Muslim extremists that hit us on 9/11, but where did they COME from? That’s the question that remains unanswered.
Because no one in Congress had the guts to see it through. After all, if it was exposed that Al-Qaeda was permitted to fester in Iraq under Clinton, some people in government might have been *gasp* embarrassed!
And we can’t have people getting embarrassed. Not if all it takes to avoid such embarrassment is compromising the truth.