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Hillary Appointee Tied to 9/11 Blunder
newsmax.com ^ | Saturday, June 11, 2005 9:32 a.m. EDT

Posted on 06/11/2005 9:14:01 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Saturday, June 11, 2005 9:32 a.m. EDT Hillary Appointee Tied to 9/11 Blunder

Press reports on Friday about a government report that offers new evidence on how the CIA failed to warn the FBI when two of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. made no mention of the role played in the disastrous bungle by Hillary Clinton's Justice Department protege Jamie Gorelick.

Typical was coverage in the Los Angeles Times, which chronicled the efforts of a frustrated CIA agent who desperately tried to warn the FBI that Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar had migrated to San Diego after attending an Al Qaeda planning session in Malaysia 20 months before the 9/11 attacks.

But instead of delivering the alert that could have helped foil the 9/11 plot, the CIA agent was told to cease and desist by superiors. Noted the Times:

"A chilling new detail of U.S. intelligence failures emerged Thursday, when the Justice Department disclosed that about 20 months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a CIA official had blocked a memo intended to alert the FBI that two known Al Qaeda operatives had entered the country.

"The two men were among the 19 hijackers who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania."

As recounted by the Times, in January 2000, a CIA employee began drafting a memo addressed to the FBI's Bin Laden unit chief at bureau headquarters and to its New York field office. The memo contained virtually all of the details known to the agency, about two of the soon-to-be 9/11 hijackers.

"But at 4 p.m. that day," the Times said, another CIA Bin Laden desk officer "added a note to the memo: 'pls hold off on [memo] for now per [the CIA deputy chief of Bin Laden unit].'"

Eight days later, in mid-January, the first agent inquired about his warning on Alhazmi and Almihdhar.

The FBI's 9/11 report reached no conclusion as to why the critical CIA intelligence wasn't shared with the bureau.

But for anyone who watched the 9/11 Commission hearings, the answer is clear.

The FBI and CIA were hamstrung by the "Wall," a set of Justice Department directives issued by Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick that made it illegal for the two agencies to cooperate with each other in terrorism probes.

Testifying before the 9/11 Commission last year, former Attorney General John Ashcroft contended that "the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents"

"[Gorelick] built that wall" said Ashcroft, "through a March 1995 memo."

Gorelick's now notorious wall memo instructed prosecutors in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case:

"We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."

According to now retired New York Times columnist William Safire, Gorelick was tapped for her post by Hillary ally Webster Hubbell after he resigned from the Justice Department in 1994 to face charges of overbilling his legal clients.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Gorelick fulfilled much the same role as Hubbell had, acting as Hillary's "eyes and ears at the Justice Department."

While news of the CIA's scuttled 9/11 warning was a top story throughout the day on Friday - with nearly two dozen mainstream press reports, including a front page story in the New York Times - none of the reports so much as mentioned Gorelick's name; let alone her connection to Mrs. Clinton.

The former first lady is currently seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination based in part on what the media descibes as her strong national security credentials.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; 911commission; 911coverup; 911hijackers; 911timeline; abledanger; atta; clintonistas; gorelick; hillaryclinton; jamiegorelick; missedopportunity; waronterror
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To: Liberty Valance
Gorelick was on the wrong side of the table during the 9-11 commission hearings.

Absolutely, but Hillary didn't (couldn't have) appointed her, which is a slow, arcing pitch waiting to be hit out of the park by any leftist.

At least we know what kind of people she would appoint.

21 posted on 06/11/2005 10:00:04 AM PDT by anonymous_user (Not everything's a conspiracy.)
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To: Reactionary
"What it is you've done, accuse your enemies of doing."

This is so typical of the left

22 posted on 06/11/2005 10:01:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: anonymous_user

http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200404151634.asp

Mark Levin weighs in...


23 posted on 06/11/2005 10:02:24 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (If you must filibuster, it's because you don't have the votes to win honestly.)
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To: Liberty Valance

She should have never been allowed to be on the commission other then to testify


24 posted on 06/11/2005 10:02:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: InvisibleChurch

The CIA has been subject to congressional oversight since the mid '70s and the days of the Church Committee. What the h*ll have the members of the intelligence committees been doing through the years? They seem to know enough to leak info when it suits them.

"Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA":

http://hnn.us/articles/380.html


25 posted on 06/11/2005 10:05:10 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: Kaslin
Gorelick fulfilled much the same role as Hubbell had

Not quite, mercifully Chelsea doesn't have a sibling...

26 posted on 06/11/2005 10:09:10 AM PDT by null and void (Oh what a tag lined web we weave...)
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To: anonymous_user
Absolutely, but Hillary didn't (couldn't have) appointed her, which is a slow, arcing pitch waiting to be hit out of the park by any leftist.

Maybe you're right but Hillary had to be pushing for Jamies' position on the commission to cover any possible tracks to her husband's administration which would ultimately reflect on her.
27 posted on 06/11/2005 10:09:39 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (If you must filibuster, it's because you don't have the votes to win honestly.)
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To: anonymous_user

I would love to have Brian "Moose" Wilson of Fox News interview Hillary on this subject...and a few others.


28 posted on 06/11/2005 10:14:01 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (If you must filibuster, it's because you don't have the votes to win honestly.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

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29 posted on 06/11/2005 10:15:48 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Liberty Valance

HRC would never submit to being interviewed by less than someone wearing butt-kissing lipstick. Along with pre-screening the questions, so there are available canned responses...


30 posted on 06/11/2005 10:24:58 AM PDT by Maigrey (Don't make me call the Emperor on you!)
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To: Newfy
And Jamie Goreleck was a member of the 9-11 Commission. Nobody questioned why or how or by whom this appointment was made. It would appear it was a CYA appointment.

YESSIRREEEE!!!! What didn't go down Sandy Berger's pants was "handled" by the Gorelicker's position on the 9/11 commission.

Yup, those wacky Clintons had it ALLLLLL figured out!!

31 posted on 06/11/2005 10:25:09 AM PDT by soozla (Leaders KNOW the way, GO the way and SHOW the way.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Gorelick wasn't the "eyes and ears at the justice dept" - SHE WAS RUNNING IT - BECAUSE RENO WAS TOTALLY INCOMPETENT.


32 posted on 06/11/2005 10:26:27 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: InvisibleChurch
It is still mind boggling that GORE-LICK was appointed as a member of the 911 Commission! She should have been charged as a Domestic Terrorist and tried!
33 posted on 06/11/2005 10:27:51 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: InvisibleChurch

Well of course the MSM wouldn't report anything that would remotely be hurtful to their queen, the wicked witch of the north. MSM is too busy pushing the tired old theme since Jan 2000: "Blame it on Bush!"


34 posted on 06/11/2005 10:29:30 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Newfy

Gorelick was on the 911 commission to quash any references or connections of her or the clintoons part in the 911 bombing. Why else would she be on the 911 commission?


35 posted on 06/11/2005 10:33:11 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: InvisibleChurch; All
-GORELICK GATE: Developing--
36 posted on 06/11/2005 10:43:20 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Reactionary

How can she sleep at night with over 3,000 dead?


37 posted on 06/11/2005 10:59:56 AM PDT by ncountylee
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To: mc5cents

Patience.


38 posted on 06/11/2005 11:02:57 AM PDT by upchuck (If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ncountylee
How can she sleep at night with over 3,000 dead?

If there is any justice, she can't.
39 posted on 06/11/2005 11:10:08 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Why? Ask Jamie Gorelick)
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To: anonymous_user

What law firm handled the Craig Livingston matter? Ms. Gorelicks old firm.......Where is that Craig Livingston anyway? Waiting for his security job back in the next Clinton whitehouse?


40 posted on 06/11/2005 11:15:01 AM PDT by oldironsides
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