Posted on 04/16/2004 9:17:43 AM PDT by 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."
Absolutely right. Mr. Numero Uno himself.
I think it was the same day that Ashcroft testified (Wednesday), but it might have been after Thursday's testimony. Kean and the other co-chair were being interviewed (they gave a presser) and the issue of Gorelick having authored the memo was brought up. In response to that, Kean said something to the effect that people should "stay out of our [the Commission's] business."
The comment did not occur as part of the scheduled proceeedings.
Their out-of-office response seems to be working faster than the last time I e-mailed.
The incestuous marriages,between presstitutes and Clinton's staffers,are really incredible!;-(
The dems are communists to begin with, and in many instances the dems supporters openly support commies and terrorists.
They are, by association and acceptance of support, terrorists
BIG TIME!!!
Link to Levins article:
April 15, 2004, 4:34 p.m.
Millennial Mistake
Jamie Gorelick’s dangerous “wall of separation.”
Well I am Shocked! / NOT!
When the leftists say the war against terrorism should be a police matter and not a military matter, what they mean is that every foreign terrorist should enjoy all the rights of an American citizen -- there would be no military action against terrorists, and any terrorist who was accidentally caught in this country would get a "fair" trial. It also means that there would be an iron wall between the military, CIA, and FBI to prevent them from sharing intelligence. If the CIA knew the identity of a terrorist about to enter this country, they could not warn the FBI and the military could not take out the terrorist. After the terrorist blows up a building, the trial lawyers will get rich suing whover made the "defective" building that could be destroyed by bombs, etc. The leftists can't be all stupid -- I figure they know that they will make terrorism worse and they want to cash in on it.
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