Levin: Declassify The Other Gorelick Memo

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/16/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

The next shoe to drop in the Gorelick-gate scandal may be a still-classified report on the Millennium bomb plot that faults Gorelick's "wall" of separation between prosecutors and intelligence gatherers for nearly blowing the Millennium Bomb Plot probe.

Writing in National Review Online, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin notes that the Commission is sitting on a damaging post-Millennium-Plot report that chronicles the impact of Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive, which Attorney General John Ashcroft alluded to on during his Wednesday testimony.

Dubbed the Millennium After Action Review by the Clinton National Security Council, Ashcroft said the report chronicles how al Qaeda's role in the Millennium plot was nearly missed because Gorelick's guidelines blinded U.S. prosecutors to critical intelligence in the case.

Though a hunch by an alert Washington-state Custom's agent led to the capture of would-be Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, when he was turned over to the Justice Department for interrogation, they "didn't have a clue who he was," Ashcroft told the Commission.

It took a French magistrate with full access to his own country's counterterrorism intelligence files to tip U.S. probers to the fact that they had nabbed one of al Qaeda's most dangerous operatives.

Ultimately, because of Gorelick's directive, the French magistrate had to travel to the U.S. and testify for seven hours to lay out Ressam's al Qaeda connection.

Said Levin:

The NSC's Millennium After Action Review — which, based on Attorney General Ashcroft's testimony, must be devastating in its analysis of not only this event but of the Gorelick policy — remains classified. . . .

"Given all the past intelligence information that has been made public by the 9/11 Commission — including the August 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief, which had never before been released — there appears to be no legitimate basis for the 9/11 Commission keeping the Review under lock and key. It's time to release it."

[EternalVigilance]

Kean is a RINO in the first degree.

Leftist Republicans are still Leftists, and I don't trust 'em any further than I couldn throw 'em.

[kcvl]

Check this out...

[MizSterious]

If only it rose to the occasion of fish-wrap. What it is, plain and simple, is the propaganda arm of the democRAT party.

[mewzilla]

I know. But that's why I find it interesting that Wilkinson was assigned to prosecute. Gorelick wouldn't have had any doubts about her.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Clinton was on the take from certain dictators? (Indirectly of course, as it first had to pass through several other sets of hands before reaching the Clintons.)"

You mean like Mark Rich?

[mabelkitty]

I also want information on her TWA 800 cover-up.

[PISANO]

a hunch!

The Luckiest man alive is Bill Clinton. Inherits a booming economy, INTERNET revolution, the biginning and middle of the dot com bubble, witnesses dying at an opportune times, a WIMPY Senate (Impeachment Trial), a COVER-UP sympathetic Press and a CUSTOM AGENT with a "HUNCH".

X42 definitely sleeps with the Pope.

[mindspy]

If they aren't the personification of evil, I don't know what is. She is evil looking, but that man. Eeek, he gives me the heebeejeebees. Who is he? I've seen him numerous times but have never caught his name.

[mabelkitty]

No!
I'm telling you my head is going to explode.
I like conspiracies as much as the next guy, but this whole mess is unraveling like a mystery novel written by Tom Clancy, and rather than it being revealed behind closed doors and dissected years later (Warren Commission), everything is happening quickly and in real time.

Look for the internet to be banned in the near future.

[TigersEye]

More on Gorelick, terrorists and "The Wall."

DEEPER CIA LINK BY 9/11 PANELIST - GORELICK

Gorelick Caught In Lie - Gorelick Says She Did Not Author or Sign the "WALL" Memo

Could OKC 'silver bullet' have prevented 9-11?

[MizSterious]

Rich is one of them. Read the articles (some in the BN sidebar) on the UN scandal for more.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

Rush replayed Jake Reno's slurring recall of "an alert Washington-state Custom's agent led to the capture of would-be Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, when he was turned over to the Justice Department for interrogation, they "didn't have a clue who he was," Ashcroft told the Commission."

Jake tried to say this was due to Gorelick's great leadership. It was luck on our part inspite of Gorelick's wall which protected the Islamokazis in America. Jake was just trying to protect Jake Jr..

[mewzilla]

I used to get ribbed about needing a tinfoil chapeau. Not any more.

[mindspy]

I don't think it's the Pope he's in bed with. Horns and a tail come to my mind.

[mabelkitty]

What's up with Drudge?
I would have thought that he would have been all over this.
He was, afterall, the one that ran Alex Polier and had the entire media scrambling for their core on what to do.

[CDHart]

"They must love the internet."

Yeah, they'd love to shut it down!

Carolyn

[cwb]

I was sick all last night and was watching late reruns on Foxnews. They have a great 1 or 2 minute newsbreak with Jim Angle that hammers Gorelick and highlights Ashcrofts relevant testimony. I haven't see it yet during the day, but it is devastating, as it talks about how the "wall" Gorelick setup essentially divided the FBI into two separate entities (one for intel/another for criminal investigation) that could no longer correspond with one and other. Ashcroft is also shown reading a letter before the 9/11 commisssion from an FBI agent, stating that this wall will one-day be responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans.

They also briefly touched on the Moussaoui case, and how he was arrested on August 15, 2001, but FBI agents were refused a search warrant of his laptop because the Gorelick Memorandum added further restrictions to FISA, as the FBI denied the warrant based on these new restrictions. Showing a clip from the Gorelick memo, Angle highlighted how it plainly stated, in the memorandum, how it "went beyond what was legally required." The Gorelick rules were meant to ensure that "no 'proactive' investigative efforts or technical coverages" of terrorist suspects be carried out on U.S. soil. It was the best two minute summation I have seen...and it alone, should be enough remove this dangerous woman. Play it again, FOX.

[TigersEye]

I don't know I rarely check Drudge. If he has anything to say I'll hear it on FR. Heh heh. But don't count him out. You never know what he's working on. So many skeletons, so little time. ; )

[TomGuy]

Look for the internet to be banned in the near future.

I was just thinking the same thing a few minutes ago. Didn't Hillary suggest/demand some kinds of controls on the Internet a few months ago?

The more the Internet threatens the 'establishment' -- politicians and main media -- the more consideration might some day be given to roping in the Internet. It would be difficult, but they certainly might try. Remember, CFR?

[DoctorMichael]

Whoa! There's another!?

That's worth a Bump!

Kean is a worthless scumbag for knuckling-under to this crap.