We shouldn't overstate Ms. Gorelick's culpability in the Sept. 11 attacks. I think that her raising of the bar on communications between intelligence and law enforcement officials was probably a minor contributor; I suspect that her apparent involvement in the incorrect decision that it was illegal to use special ops troops to go after al Qaeda's leadership, when she was the head attorney for the Department of Defense, was far more significant.
Holy shiite.
"I suspect that her apparent involvement in the incorrect decision that it was illegal to use special ops troops to go after al Qaeda's leadership, when she was the head attorney for the Department of Defense, was far more significant."
Well, that's two strikes against her. And she was on the 9/11 Commission? And is it true that she was controlling the selection of the evidence reviewed by the Commission?
Remember it was Tenet and Clarke who called off Schoen's team taking Bin Laden at the Tarnak Farm in Afghanistan way way back in '98 IIRC, and what was the reason given? Not enough information to indict...Was this an effect of Gorelick's wall that prevented the CIA/FBI/et al. from sharing and kept them from getting the green light? Not to say that the Clintoons were protecting UBL, but to demonstrate the Law of Unintended Consequences goes further than 9/11 and into our current day. This may go back to Chinagate, but we are still paying for this today.