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   ... In case anyone was in doubt, Janet Reno herself affirmed the policy several months later in a July 19, 1995, memo that we (wsj) have unearthed. In it, the then-Attorney General instructs all U.S. Attorneys about avoiding "the appearance" of overlap between intelligence-related activities and law-enforcement operations.

.... Ms. Gorelick--an aspirant to Attorney General under a President Kerry--now sits in judgment of the current Administration. This is what, if the principle has any meaning at all, people call a conflict of interest. Henry Kissinger was hounded off the Commission for far less. It's such a big conflict of interest that the White House could hardly be blamed if it decided to cease cooperation with the 9/11 Commission pending Ms. Gorelick's resignation and her testimony under oath as a witness into the mind of the Reno Justice Department. What exactly was the purpose of the wall?

[Beau Schott]

Ms. Gorelick was appointed to the commission by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, and former House Democratic leader and presidential candidate Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri.

Hyper-partisans members of the 9/11 commission; Richard Ben-Veniste, Jamie Gorelick and Tim Roemer, report back regularly to Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle for political fine-tuning.

Ms. Gorelick should not be a commission member, she should be a star witness. Testifying before the commission should properly be Ms. Gorelick's only role, not sitting as a member of this 'independent' commission. She ought to be called on as a witness because that memo went beyond what the law required. There's no way the commission or Gorelick can have an objective conclusion as a result of her investigating her own memorandum.

When you ask hard questions of people who are in office, they take offense, she [Ms. Gorelick] said. The chairman of the bipartisan commission, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, backed her up, telling reporters, "People ought to stay out of our business".

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