<p>WASHINGTON — The panel probing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is defending Jamie Gorelick (search).</p>
<p>Gorelick is causing a stir since she — a commissioner on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United (search) States — served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration.</p>