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RUSH: The pompous 9/11 Commission, this bunch of brainiacs out there thinking they're saving the world with their work on this commission, and their work basically was to what? They were a commission on "connecting the dots." They were out there trying to find out where the dots weren't detected, right? And now we learn that they missed a huge dot. This is the Able Danger group, the Defense Intelligence Agency unit that was surveilling Mohamed Atta, had him under surveillance, knew he was in Brooklyn with three of the other hijackers one year before 9/11. Ten days before they...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

On April 16, 2004, a Washington Times’ editorial questioned the presence of Jamie Gorelick on the Sept. 11 Commission investigating the worst terrorist attack against the United States in history.  It was Gorelick who was “personally responsible for instituting a key obstacle [the so-called “wall of separation memo”] to cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence operations before the terrorist attacks” and the Times editorial held that her presence on the Commission “raises disturbing questions about the integrity of the commission itself. Ms. Gorelick should not be cross-examining witnesses; instead, she should be required to testify about her own behavior under...

In his public testimony before the 9/11 Commission the other day, Attorney General John Ashcroft exposed Commissioner Jamie Gorelick's role in undermining the nation's security capabilities by issuing a directive insisting that the FBI and federal prosecutors ignore information gathered through intelligence investigations. But Ashcroft pointed to another document that also has potentially explosive revelations about the Clinton administration's security failures. Ashcroft stated, in part: ... [T]he Commission should study carefully the National Security Council plan to disrupt the al Qaeda network in the U.S. that our government failed to implement fully seventeen months before September 11.

As the 9/11 Commission tries to uncover what kept intelligence agencies from preventing September 11, it has overlooked two vital factors: Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton. Gorelick, who has browbeaten the current administration, helped erect the walls between the FBI, CIA and local investigators that made 9/11 inevitable. However, she was merely expanding the policy Bill Clinton established with Presidential Decision Directive 24. What has been underreported is why the policy came about: to thwart investigations into the Chinese funding of Clinton’s re-election campaign, and the favors he bestowed on them in return. In April, CNSNews.com staff writer Scott Wheeler...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 9 - From the U.S. Congressional Record U.S. INTELLIGENCE -- (House of Representatives - June 27, 2005) [Page: H5244] --- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McHenry). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 44 minutes. [Page: H5244] Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to discuss for the next 45 minutes the most important topic that will allow us to protect the homeland, provide for the security of the American people and our allies and our troops around the world: our intelligence. Last...

Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta? In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as “Able Danger,” identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to “take out that cell,” according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. The recommendation to bring down that New York...

September 7, 2004 U.S. Secretly Detained bin Laden Brother-in-Law For Four Months After Purported May 1995 Deportation Controversial 9/11 Commissioner Linked To Case By FOIA Documents By J.M. Berger INTELWIRE.com The U.S. government secretly detained Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law for four months in 1995, after the INS announced he had already been deported to Jordan, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Jordan deportation was authorized by then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, at the request of Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A member of the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks, Gorelick...

DID ANYONE TAPE LAST NIGHT'S (6-17-04) HARDBALL ??? NEED AUDIO OF JAMIE GORELICK SEGMENT FOR NEW FLASH MOVIE   CLINTON TREASON + THE GORELICK WALL by Mia T, 5.5.04 This story merits its own book, but what deserves immediate comment is the willingness of the Clintons to risk everything to keep the cash pipeline open. Schwartz kept it open and full. Before he was through, Schwartz and Loral would donate roughly $2 million to the Clinton cause. Whether Schwartz gave additional money or favors off the books is a question that deserves asking. A second question that deserves asking is...

There is a reason why the Gorelick Memo will boomerang back into view. There is a reason why 'Torture Gate' is beginning to spin out of control for the Left. The reason is simple: Truth. And the Truth is revolving around two starkly different states: Texas and Massachusetts. Lies simply do not work the way they used to. Quick fixes for power, ever the liberal strategy since its beginning, are too transparent with the New Media studying their every move with an elephant's memory. As the stakes increase in a war, the difference becomes as clear as night and day....

TERROR REPORT SLAMS CIA The CIA failed to pass on warnings to the FBI about two of the terrorists who went on to become September 11 hijackers, it has been claimed. An FBI agent who was working with the CIA more than a year before the attacks on New York and Washington said he wanted to warn FBI bosses about al Qaeda suspects Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi. They had been spotted at a gathering of terror suspects in Malaysia and were understood to be headed to America, it was reported. US officials told ABC News the agent was denied...

FBI Agent Was Prevented From Relaying Warning on 9/11 Hijackers To CIA By Pierre Thomas W A S H I N G T O N, May 10, 2004 — More than a year before 9/11, CIA officials prevented an FBI agent working with the CIA from passing vital information to his agency on two suspected al Qaeda members — men who later would become Sept. 11 hijackers. U.S. officials told ABCNEWS the agent wanted to warn his FBI bosses about a gathering in Malaysia where al Qaeda suspects Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi met with suspects in the Oct. 12,...

Did Gorelick's infamous memo provide the missing link between Chinagate and 9/11? Scott JordanBrookesNews.ComMonday 3 May 2004 "Recall, too, that during the time of Ms. Gorelick's 1995 memo, the issue causing the most tension between the Reno-Gorelick Justice Department and Director Freeh's FBI was not counterterrorism but widely reported allegations of contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign from foreign sources, involving the likes of John Huang and Charlie Trie." — The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 15, 2004 Hats off to the Wall Street Journal for a spectacular observation, perhaps the Rosetta Stone of postmillennial national security. Let its boiled-down...

Saturday, May. 01, 2004John Ashcroft received a rare public rebuke from his own boss last week when the White House revealed that President Bush told the 9/11 commission he was "disappointed" in him for ambushing Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, a former Justice Department official. Ashcroft not only attempted to blame her for setting up barriers to intelligence and law-enforcement information-sharing in his testimony to the panel earlier this month, using a just-declassified memo she'd written in 1995; he then furthered the attack by putting yet more documents on his Website the day before Bush's interview with the commission. Most experts say...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The White House criticized the Justice Department Thursday for posting recently declassified memos on its website the day before President Bush's meeting with the 9/11 Commission. The documents show that former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, a member of the Commission, recommended in 1995 that the "wall" separating law enforcement and intelligence agencies not only be left in place but raised. The wall was effectively torn down by the Patriot Act. Few details of the private meeting in the Oval Office among President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and the Commission members were made public on Thursday,...

In Neal's daily Program Notes for 30 April: ========== You know that Jamie Gorelick is a member of the 9/11 Commission. You also probably know that she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton Administration And .. you might know that she is the Clinton official who wrote that memo that pretty much eliminated any possibility that the CIA and the FBI would cooperate and share intelligence on terrorism. But .. do you know why Gorelick wrote this memo? Simple. To protect Clinton from an investigation into Chinese involvement in his campaign finance scandal. ==========

CBS radio news broadcast this morning is pressuring the Department of Justice to remove the Gorelick and Mary Jo White, etc. memos from their web site. They claimed that yesterday the president expressed his displeasure at those memos having been released.

<p>President Bush rebuked the Justice Department yesterday for posting on its Web site memos revealing how intricately involved September 11 commissioner and former Clinton administration official Jamie S. Gorelick was in crafting the U.S. counterterror policies she is now judging.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - In his meeting Thursday with the Sept. 11 commission, President Bush expressed strong disapproval of his Justice Department for releasing documents that Republicans are using to criticize a Democrat on the commission. On Wednesday, some congressional Republicans declared that newly released material posted on the Justice Department Web site shows that panel member Jamie Gorelick was involved in action that may have weakened the nation's defenses against terrorism. Gorelick was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration.``The president was disappointed'' over the release of the documents on the department Web site and...

<p>Newly released Justice Department memos show that September 11 panel commissioner Jamie S. Gorelick was more intimately involved than previously thought with hampering communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism.</p> <p>As the No. 2 person in the Clinton Justice Department, Ms. Gorelick rejected advice from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who warned against placing more limits on communications between law-enforcement officials and prosecutors pursuing counterterrorism cases, according to several internal documents written in summer 1995.</p>