NATIONAL DISGRACE, CONT'D - Memo Just Tip of the Iceberg

New York Post ^ | 4/15/04

[kattracks]

April 15, 2004 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner has demanded the resignation of Jamie Gorelick as a member of the federal 9/11 Commission. Frankly, given her blatant conflicts of interest, she should never have been appointed in the first place.

[Mo1]

And what was Commission Chairman Tom Kean's response to calls for Gorelick's dismissal or resignation?

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

Hey Kean .. go pound sand .. THIS IS OUR BUSINESS!!

This is our national security that you are playing games with and who the heck do you think you are??

[Prince Charles]

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

I'll bet this mouth-breathing RINO is also a Howard Stern fan.

[Texasforever]

That really was an odd statement. As I understand it, this commission was formed by both Congress and The White House. It is their business and Kean appears to be over reaching a bit.

[Mo1]

Appears?!?!?

He IS and the way he has handled this whole dang thing is an absolute joke

Don't get me started .. I still haven't calmed down from "The Jersey Girls" appearance on TV with Chrissy Mothballs

[MEG33]

I saw Ben the Nasty on TV..Ted Olson had just said in an interview with LKL that the commissioners should not be doing TV interviews ,etc.

Nasty said Kean asked them to make themselves available to the media.Don't they realize how flawed and biased THEY look?

[nopardons]

No,they don't and what's more, they don't care.It's all about "facetime" and Bushbashing, for them all.

[Mo1]

No they don't

[Texasforever]

I want at least FOX to get the 40 families that took out the ad supporting Bush on the air. It is past time to get the "other side of the story" out there.

[MNJohnnie]

10,000 Blessing on the NY Post. Glad to see someone as fired up as me! Sick SAD joke indeed.

[MEG33]

Ben told Larry he wasn't aware of any criticism of his style..he's so busy with a trial,etc.When questioned about the difference between his "style" with Clarke he said Clarke's testimony had checked out as far as facts and that's why he went easy on him(we know the Millenium story wasn't accurate.)He said the Iraq opinions aren't important to their inquiry...

He has indicated that he thinks the PDB Aug 6 memo should have led to actions,questions,suggestions..Bush is in his sights.

[Mo1]

To be honest .. I don't want to see either side

What I would like to see is an honest investigation as to what went wrong and fix it.

Could they do something as simple as that?? .. Nooooooooooo

They used this commission to play political games with our lives so they could use President Bush as a punching bag before the elections

And Kean is too stupid to see that

[Texasforever]

And Kean is too stupid to see that

Far from "stupid". It is obvious that this is turning into a quest to bring a president down. Kean is looking at all that entails to his otherwise inauspicious life.

[Mo1]

He said the Iraq opinions aren't important to their inquiry...

Then WHY did Bob Kerrey make the comment he did about our "Christian Army" in Iraq?

Ben is Liar about Clarke .. the facts don't check out

[Mo1]

Far from "stupid". It is obvious that this is turning into a quest to bring a president down. Kean is looking at all that entails to his otherwise inauspicious life,

You are right ...

[backhoe]

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[MEG33]

He would haughtily tell you that won't be part of their report..just part of their right to pander and grandstand in front of the cameras.They have a President to defeat..doncha know!

[nopardons]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggg!

Once, just once in my life, I want to be in the same room with Ben V.!

[fella]

As it turns out, the memo is just the tip of the iceberg concerning Gorelick's questionable fitness as a member of the panel.

That's because she's a litigation partner in one of Washington's most high-powered Democratic law firms - Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

And that firm represents Prince Mohammed al-Faisal al-Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and director of a key Saudi financial agency, against a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 600 Sept. 11 families.

.........

One of its subsidiaries is the Al-Shamil Islamic Bank, whose directors include Osama bin Laden's half-brother and his brother-in-law.

According to congressional testimony last October by Jean-Charles Brisard, an international expert on terrorism financing, the Swiss-based DMI "is one of the central structures in Saudi Arabia's financing of international Islam," and is rooted in the House of Saud's "support for the radical Islamic cause."

HOLY SH*T!

[Lancey Howard]

Gorelick, who might have become attorney general in an Al Gore administration, could get that same job if John Kerry wins in November.

No, that possibility is long gone. Gorelick is toast.

[Happy2BMe]

Who decided Gorelick (GORE-LICK) had the credientials and requirements to be on the commission anyway?

It had to have been agreed on in a bipartisan meeting somewhere with Republicans giving her the nod at the outset of the hearings, now didn't it?

This will be another "test" to see if these hearings are bonafide legitimate or bonafide whitewash.

Unless Gorelick comes off the panel, we have another McCarthy Inquisition on our hands.

[patj]

Nasty said Kean asked them to make themselves available to the media.

I heard Kean say this himself and he added that they want to keep everything out in the open. All this makes his "people should stay out of our business" statement all the more outrageous. He has no idea what a bad joke his commission is. Out here in mid-America we recognize that smell.

[Orlando]

WOW !!!

5th Column

[Ichneumon]

[jaykay]

So Gorelick is behind the "institutional structural yadda yadda" that prevented sharing of information that could have stopped 9/11. And Doris Meissner, while at INS during the Clinton Admin was behind the weakening of visa and immigration rules which allowed the terrorists to gain easy access to the U.S. And wasn't Al Gore involved in recommending standards for airport security? And didn't the Clinton admin dictate zero tolerance for racial and ethnic profiling that at one time would have nabbed the terrorists before they could ever board an airplane?

The Clinton Admin could have hardly set the table for Al Qeada any better if they were a sleeper cell themselves.

[laredo44]

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

For this statement, Kean ought resign, as well as Gorelick.

[Dog]

Don't get me started .. I still haven't calmed down from "The Jersey Girls" appearance on TV with Chrissy Mothballs

I like this Mo.....a real flamethrower.

I heard what Kean said.......someone today needs to lower the hammer on him .......taxpayer money funds his little three ring circus.

[John Lenin]

For the good of the copuntry she should step down. Even Orin Hatch could make this case.

[Dog]

When the commission was set up......by President Bush.....he picked 5 members ....and told Daschle he could pick 5 members. Bi-partisanship dont you know.

Now here is something interesting I read in some article a couple of weeks ago the 5 RAT Commission members talk with Daschle once a week.....to go over the coming weeks agenda.

[Miss Marple]

Well, well, well. Probably they are coordinating with Kerry's campaign as well.

If I were the President, I would be tempted to remove the Republicans and replace them with Bob Dornan and a few others. But that's me, and I suppose we are stuck with our mealy-mouthed members.

I really think the democrats have been disgraceful.

[Elkiejg]

So Gorelick is behind the "institutional structural yadda yadda" that prevented sharing of information that could have stopped 9/11. And Doris Meissner, while at INS during the Clinton Admin was behind the weakening of visa and immigration rules which allowed the terrorists to gain easy access to the U.S. And wasn't Al Gore involved in recommending standards for airport security? And didn't the Clinton admin dictate zero tolerance for racial and ethnic profiling that at one time would have nabbed the terrorists before they could ever board an airplane?

The Clinton Admin could have hardly set the table for Al Qeada any better if they were a sleeper cell themselves.

EXCELLENT POINTS!! But I would contend the Clinton admin. WAS AND IS a sleeper cell.

[NeonKnight]

What went wrong is we were attacked. The way to fix it is to annihilate those that attacked us. Unless the people on this commission can carry a rifle or fly a jet, I don't see much use for them.

[metesky]

What I would like to see is an honest investigation as to what went wrong and fix it.

What went wrong is that terrorists decided to attack us in the homeland.

"Security" is a joke, a nebulous concept that will always have exploitable holes.

President Bush has the only correct answer: Hunt down and kill terrorists wherever they are found.

[Barlowmaker]

taxpayer money funds his little three ring circus.

The Commission hearings should begin with a little honking car driving into the chamber, and the Comissioners piling out like Ringling Bros. clowns taking their seats of judgement. Accompaniment by organ scale runs and trombone smears would be nice. Maybe they can perform some slapstick skits before the center ring show for the cynical 9/11 widows, there representing all media whores and working for the families of ratings-imperiled MSNBC Hardball staff. Gotta pay tribute to the egomaniacal "Jersey Girls"! Always remember to put the "show" into a "show trial". Perhaps a pet "kangaroo" would enliven the festivities and serve as a mascot for the proceedings as well.

This thing has long since become a repugnant farce.

[samtheman]

By the standards of this Commission, Julius Streicher should have been one of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials.

[Unknown Freeper]

Bob Kerrey is on Imus right now. He is mad at Ashcroft saying it was a dirty trick to use the memo and blame the Clinton administration. This from Kerrey who has no business being on television while these proceedings are going on.

[Diogenesis]

The Utterly Absolutely Disgraced 911 Commission [by their own choice]

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"Do you really think you are gonna ask me why I dared refuse repeat DOJ requests for investigations of dangerous illegal aliens.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why I arranged to stovepipe intelligence to make intraagency effective communication useless.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why illegal aliens who were felons became voters for our Democratic party.
Do you really think you are gonna get to ask me why I OK'd the use of stolen FBI files on DNC computers.
Not a chance. Following LBJ, your gonads are in my fist and your FBI files are in my computer.
Now go away. "

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"Some wonder whether [Clinton] was distracted by the legal and
political quagmire of the Monica Lewinsky case.
And even former Clinton aides now regret that the
battle with bin Laden and his Al-Qaida organization was never fully joined.
'Clearly, not enough was done,' said Jamie Gorelick,
a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
'We should have caught this. Why this happened, I don't know.
Responsibilities were given out. Resources were given. Authorities existed.
We should have prevented this.'

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FREEP and DEMAND THAT GORELICK BE REMOVED!:
Congressman Tom DeLay
Majority Leader Office
H-107 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
p. (202)225-4000
f. (202)225-5117

Congressional Office
242 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
p. (202)225-5951
f. (202)225-5241

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FREEP and DEMAND THAT GORELICK BE REMOVED!:
Phone Commission at 202-331-4060
Email Commission at info@9-11commission.gov
put Thomas Kean in the subject line.

DEMAND THAT GORELICK BE REMOVED! FOR EITHER REASON #1 or #2 or both or other reasons suggested above or below.

info@9-11commission.gov

DONT FORGET - PUT THOMAS KEAN IN THE SUBJECT LINE

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FREEP and DEMAND THAT GORELICK BE REMOVED!:
Call the President. Leave a meassage at the White House. Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
E-Mail President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

[Dog]

Bob Kerrey is on Imus right now. He is mad at Ashcroft saying it was a dirty trick to use the memo and blame the Clinton administration.

Awwwww poor little Liberal got his feelings hurt..

[cupcakes]

That's because she's a litigation partner in one of Washington's most high-powered Democratic law firms - Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

And that firm represents Prince Mohammed al-Faisal al-Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and director of a key Saudi financial agency, against a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 600 Sept. 11 families. >>

Where is the "outrage" from the "Jersey girls"?

[no dems]

Forgive my ignorance but someone please tell me who appointed this commission.

[230FMJ]

Thomas "People ought to stay out of our business," Kean is obviously part of the problem. I don't recall the specifics, but a week or so ago I heard him being interviewed on the radio. He said something about re-configuring the FBI or splitting it up. At the time I was taken aback by his grandiose opinion of his and the commission's authority. Does anyone here have the time to look into Kean's statements?

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

This is why the government our founders created no longer works. This is the entire attitude of government officials in the United States AT EVERY LEVEL!! Government needs to be completely taken apart and the incumbent bureaucratic and elected jackasses in office thrown into the gutter where they belong.

[Miss Marple]

Why was that a dirty trick? Does he think the information should have been hidden?

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Samwise]

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

Shades of John None-of-Your-Business Kerry.

[Rebelbase]

"That's because she's a litigation partner in one of Washington's most high-powered Democratic law firms - Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

And that firm represents Prince Mohammed al-Faisal al-Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and director of a key Saudi financial agency, against a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 600 Sept. 11 families. >> "

Gorelick is involved in representing the Saudi's in that case?

[machman]

How come the press never brings up this either?

Director Biography

Jamie S. Gorelick

Jamie S. Gorelick, 53, is a partner in Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP, an international law firm since July 2003. Gorelick was vice chair of Fannie Mae, the largest source of financing for U.S. home mortgages from May 1997 to July 2003, Washington, D.C. She is a director of United Technologies Corporation, a provider of high technology products and services to the aerospace industry, where she serves on its Audit, Finance and Public Issues Review Committees. She also serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and the Boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, America’s Promise, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a member of the National Commission on Terrorism Attacks upon the United States. Gorelick has served on the Schlumberger Board of Directors since 2002.

[Miss Marple]

Congress created the commission. The President appointed the Republicans and Tom Daschle appointed the democrats.

You will recall, perhaps, that the original chairman was supposed to be Henry Kissinger, but the democrats put up a big howl because of (ta-da) conflict of interest. Kean was named when Kissinger stepped down.

[mewzilla]

"People ought to stay out of our business," he huffed.

Says it all, don't it?

[mewzilla]

Note to the NYP: Keep digging.