[Peach]

Uh, have you ever wondered whether the Gorelick memo forbid the different intelligence agencies from talking to each other and thus prevented them from connecting the dots?

[TomGuy]

Uh, have you ever wondered whether the Gorelick memo forbid the different intelligence agencies from talking to each other and thus prevented them from connecting the dots?

Neal Boortz was talking about that not long ago. He said Gorelick's purpose in extending 'the wall' was to help BClinton and keep the FBI from communicating with the CIA about the foreign fundraising and sales of 'stuff' to China.

Boortz went into some detail about it. [I haven't checked his website to see whether he put it in print. If he did, it would be a 'must read' for sure.]

[Paul Ross]

Tenet and Clarke both KNEW about Operation Bojinka, and hence were uniquely in a position to alert the new administration about the airliner missile threat. The Gorelick-Reno 'Wall' would have prevented a lot of things. But it was not what stopped them from warning GWB/Rice etc. about Operation Bojinka. The consistent testimony is that they in fact DID NOT SO WARN THEM Operation Bojinka. In my book, this is an admitted dereliction of duty which I believe is truthful, and of immensely grave import as to the fitness of these two.

After all, as Rush has pointed out, the threat was deemed a big deal secretively by Beezelbubba. A threat such that he appointed a commission to 'study' the problem. Typically, he appointed bozo Al Gore to head this investigative commission which produced a whole slew of recommendations for airline security...WHICH WERE NEVER ENACTED. Instead, they were DEEP-SIXED under the Xlinton administration...which was not about to queer the economy over obviously what Xlinton deemed only a mere possibility of such an attack. Call it simple negligence if you will...although I wouldn't. Xlinton left it as a time-bomb for the next administration...and with his agents in place to throw sand in their eyes...they never mentioned AlQueada's Operation Bojinka AT ALL to the new guys.

This is just too coincidental. In the ordinary course of things you would expect one or the other to correct an omission, ...either Clarke or Tenet to have alerted the new administration's National Security Advisor or the President himself to this issue, but not BOTH to simultaneously stay mum on the issue. But they did.

Damn peculiar.