Ruff's dead, Jim.
Posted on 04/14/2004 4:13:18 AM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Gorelick in 1995 recommended separating counterintelligence activities from "counter-criminal" activities Just declassified by Ashcroft. We're finally defending ourselves!
New York Times 7/16/99 William Safire "… The most dramatic clash between the F.B.I. and the heavily politicized Reno Department of Justice took place in February 1997. Stimulated by press reports of "the Asian connection" to the Clinton-Gore campaign, the Bureau teletyped all field offices for reports on foreign attempts to influence U.S. political campaigns. On Washington's Birthday the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence chief, John Lewis, delivered a packet of those top-secret reports to Janet Reno. "The Attorney General gave the packet of teletypes to then Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick," reports Michael Bromwich, the in-house Inspector General. At the same time, White House Counsel Charles Ruff made two calls to Justice seeking to find out what embarrassment was in store. Never told by Ms. Reno of F.B.I. restrictions on the documents, Ms. Gorelick bucked them to the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. They then blithely passed them on to Laura Ingersoll's Justice "task force," selected for its ineptitude. Nothing doing, said the F.B.I., which "retrieved the packet shortly after the Task Force received it," according to Bromwich. When I asked the F.B.I. Director, Louis Freeh, yesterday if he had been aware of the confrontation -- an unprecedented dispatch of agents to snatch back evidence from Main Justice -- he replied, "I knew about it and certainly approved of it." …Justice was passing the surveillance of messages to Ted Sieong and Maria Hsia -- both in direct contact with Al Gore in his fund-raising -- all over the building. And so the F.B.I. acted to prevent contacts with the White House officials under investigation, to avoid the sort of improper "heads up" given them in Whitewater….The name-no-names whitewash by Ms. Reno's I.G. admits that Congress was not given two pieces of espionage information it should have had until September 1997 -- after the Senate investigators had all but closed shop and Democrats happily declared the Asian penetration unproven…."
Ruff's dead, Jim.
You sound like a conspiracy theorist, of course. But the presence of this viper on the committee, while she was at the core of the perversion of government which led to 9/11, really has to be considered.
People keep pointing out that she - or, rather, *it* - didn't bring the now-declassified memo to the attention of the committee. But that's no surprise - it would of course have failed to alert the committee to its own complicity in our intelligence failures.
The question to be asked is, "Did it *really* expect that memo not to surface during the hearings, or is it so inept that it didn't even *remember* having authored the memo?"
If it really knew of, or remembered, the memo before accepting membership on the committee, then there is very little question that its presence on the committee is for "reasons unrevealed".
Only an idiot - and maybe Gorelick & Co. really *are* idiots of this calibre, but I somehow find it difficult to believe - would not realize that the Bush administration now has access to *every document* which the Clintonoids didn't manage to destroy on their way out of the garbage pile into which they had transformed the Federal Government. It is a fair assumption that Gorelick and other, similar rodentiforms *know* that there are, or may be, any number of similarly incriminating (or at the very least implicating) documents of this sort in the hands of the Bush administration. One would expect them to then plan for some sort of "damage control"... Putting the filthbag whose name appears on the most incriminating of documents, right there on the commission, might indeed have been a planned maneuver from that satandpoint.
But are they really *that* incisive... and was *that* really the best means of "damage control"? It's easy to give Lieberals *too* much credit - after all, they're primarily driven by their viscera, not their cerebellums...
It really looks like Hitlary polluted the entire Government with her coven of... of... (I'm not going to say it).
There sure is a big difference between how Bush appoints people, and how Bill and Hitlary did it - I mean, dragging that gang of two-bit, second-rate lawyers from the Rose Law Firm into the Federal Government? GIVE me a BREAK...
Somebody could write a book just on how the Degenerate Duo degraded the Government by infesting it with their mediocre cabal of leftist "Friends".
The devil is in the details.
Why does Bush have this leftist viper on his staff? Is he trying to be "Bipartisan" again? Not too bright, considering that she - or (again) *it* - has access to God-knows-what information in its position on those committees.
Considering it leaked in via the Billary Administration, has this creature ever passed an FBI investigation, and gotten a security clearance?
I hope she pays her secretaries very well.
I hope it *doesn't*... We might need them to tell the *truth *about it...
| Gorelick Caught In Lie - Gorelick Says She Did Not Author or Sign the "WALL" Memo |
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What's the most important use of a President's time and prestige? The President should use every tool at his command to get a grip on this problem, and that includes finding new ways to coordinate activities among the National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, and Defense Intelligence Agency. This Administration has held conferences, town hall meetings, lectures, and talkathons ad nauseam. Bill Clinton and Al Gore hyperventilate over the theory--the theory--of global warming. Wouldn't it be nice if they paid half as much attention to the reality of global terrorism?
This was written Jan 21 1999
Here's a link to the entire report: http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/HL630.cfm
Why is Kean so ferociously defending Gore-Lick?I don't know. Could it be his is one of the files hitlery has ??
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