Levin: Declassify The Other Gorelick Memo

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/16/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

The next shoe to drop in the Gorelick-gate scandal may be a still-classified report on the Millennium bomb plot that faults Gorelick's "wall" of separation between prosecutors and intelligence gatherers for nearly blowing the Millennium Bomb Plot probe.

Writing in National Review Online, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin notes that the Commission is sitting on a damaging post-Millennium-Plot report that chronicles the impact of Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive, which Attorney General John Ashcroft alluded to on during his Wednesday testimony.

Dubbed the Millennium After Action Review by the Clinton National Security Council, Ashcroft said the report chronicles how al Qaeda's role in the Millennium plot was nearly missed because Gorelick's guidelines blinded U.S. prosecutors to critical intelligence in the case.

Though a hunch by an alert Washington-state Custom's agent led to the capture of would-be Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, when he was turned over to the Justice Department for interrogation, they "didn't have a clue who he was," Ashcroft told the Commission.

It took a French magistrate with full access to his own country's counterterrorism intelligence files to tip U.S. probers to the fact that they had nabbed one of al Qaeda's most dangerous operatives.

Ultimately, because of Gorelick's directive, the French magistrate had to travel to the U.S. and testify for seven hours to lay out Ressam's al Qaeda connection.

Said Levin:

The NSC's Millennium After Action Review — which, based on Attorney General Ashcroft's testimony, must be devastating in its analysis of not only this event but of the Gorelick policy — remains classified. . . .

"Given all the past intelligence information that has been made public by the 9/11 Commission — including the August 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief, which had never before been released — there appears to be no legitimate basis for the 9/11 Commission keeping the Review under lock and key. It's time to release it."

[XHogPilot]

bump

[battlecry]

Interesting to see if it will see the light of day...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Only the democrats could take a situation (the capture of the Millenium Bomber) wherein they did everything wrong and turn it into a positive ("the Clinton administration was Johnny-on-the-spot fighting terrorism.") The dems are beneath contempt.

[The South Texan]

But Kean told us the Gorlick is one of the most non-partisan and hardest working memebers of the commisission.

He also told to us to stay out of there business.

They must love the internet.

[military cop]

PLEEEEEEASE fire this off to O'Reilly, Hannity and the people who will actually REVEAL something like this.

[Cooter]

Scr*w the commission, Ashcroft should de-classify it.

[TomGuy]

More dirty from Gorelick and the Clinton Administration.

Ashcroft should declassify alot more stuff. Gorelick seems to have the key person in relation to OKC and TWA800, too.

[mewzilla]

Hey, Kean. Incoming!

[mewzilla]

Apparently the lead OKC prosecutor worked for Gorelick. Can't get much closer than that.

[ought-six]

That the mainstream press isn't running with this story is unconscionable.

[MizSterious]

"...Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive..."

Ok, considering the likely Clinton connections to the U.N. Oil/Food scandal, would it be too tin-foilish to ask if they were so "friendly" because of bumbling, or because Clinton was on the take from certain dictators? (Indirectly of course, as it first had to pass through several other sets of hands before reaching the Clintons.)

[TomGuy]

I was referring to an earlier thread:

Oklahoma City, TWA Flight 800, and the Gorelick connection
			Posted by TomGuy to OPS4 On News/Activism 04/16/2004 9:36:06 AM CDT #12 of 55 Although Davis does not document Gorelick's role in Oklahoma City, media accounts routinely describe her as the director of the Oklahoma City task force, the so-called "field commander." As Davis has told me, someone in Washington called the FBI in Oklahoma City and issued a two-word directive on its investigation into Islamic terrorism: "Kill it."

[cynicom]

Kean is the strongest democrat partisan on the commission.

[MizSterious]

What makes you think O'Reilly will cover this? So far, he's much more into bashing Ashcroft by saying he is more interested in "covering up naked statues" than in fighting terrorism. O'Reilly is not our friend--unless he thinks it will advance his career and ratings.

[rwfromkansas]

wow

[Malesherbes]

Was the RINO Slade Gorton on or off his medication when this pisture was taken?

[rwfromkansas]

When did he say this?

[AlexW]

"That the mainstream press isn't running with this story is unconscionable"

It is not the mainstream press...It is "mainstream fish-wrap", but even worse, it now turns the fish putrid.