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'Jersey Girl' Defends Jamie Gorelick
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/11/113019.shtml ^ | Aug. 11, 2005

Posted on 08/11/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT by Maria S

A member of the group, the "Jersey Girls," who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks, is defending 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick against allegations that, as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, she blocked critical intelligence that had identified the two 9/11 hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center.

"Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'" Lorie Van Auken told WABC Radio's John Gambling - referring to Ms. Gorelick's 1995 directive prohibiting intelligence agencies from sharing evidence on suspected terrorists with law enforcement.

Calling it insread "the Reno wall," Van Auken insisted that its primary impact was limited to the investigation into so-called 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui, where investigators were prevented from searching Moussaoui's computer until after the 9/11 attacks. Van Auken offered no comment on reports that the Gorelick restrictions bottled up critical intelligence on 9/11 conspirators Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, whose hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center.

But Rep. Curt Weldon, who revealed earlier this week that military intelligence had identified Atta and al-Shehhi as terrorist threats operating inside the U.S. two years before the attacks, blamed the Clinton Justice Department's "wall."

"There was no reason not to share this information with the FBI," he complained in a radio interview Wednesday night, "except that the firewalls that existed back then were so severe that they wouldn't let these agencies talk to one another."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atta; defends; gorelick; gorelickwall; jerseygirl
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1 posted on 08/11/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT by Maria S
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To: Maria S
Didn't we all just know that the Jersey cow, Ms. Van Aucken, would come up with something like this?

Predictable deceit from this deranged woman.....just as night follows day.

Leni

2 posted on 08/11/2005 8:51:07 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Maria S

Laurie Van Auken, "Gore Lick gets a bad rap for, ya know KILLING OUR LOVED ONES!"


Maybe, if this useful idiot wasn't busy blaming Bush as her preconceived political leanings demand of her, she might be placing blame on the real culprit here, Gore Lick.


3 posted on 08/11/2005 8:51:24 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (If you think that's tough, try losing a testicle in a knife fight with your mother!)
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To: Maria S
"Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'"

This inane comment tells you all you need to know about this lady and her group's politics.

4 posted on 08/11/2005 8:51:27 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Maria S

The reason was Clinton cover. Why did he need so many levels of protection?


5 posted on 08/11/2005 8:51:33 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Maria S

Yep of course even the non-military death of a loved one will not stop some from reading from the Dim talking points.


7 posted on 08/11/2005 8:52:59 AM PDT by JLS
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To: Maria S
LOL! That's it! They are going to blame it on the silly old figurehead Reno, instead of the gal who was really running things.

Reno proved a loser, so she is expendable.
8 posted on 08/11/2005 8:53:12 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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"'Jersey Girl' Defends Jamie Gorelick"

Basically, she's using her husband's corpse to "shield" Gorelick.

9 posted on 08/11/2005 8:53:16 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: ncountylee
Perhaps the reason for the wall was to mask the fact that President Clinton and CJCS Hugh Shelton had turned the power of the military against the American public. (They swerved into the Atta info)
10 posted on 08/11/2005 8:53:37 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Conservatives look at Iraqi dual use chemicals and see WMDs. Liberals see tomato gardens.)
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To: Maria S

One size fits all Democrats

11 posted on 08/11/2005 8:53:53 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage)
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"Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'" Lorie Van Auken told WABC Radio's John Gambling -

What a dumb beeatch.

12 posted on 08/11/2005 8:54:07 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (The constitution is not in exile, it's in a nice safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands - Lileks)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Ping, thought you may be interested.


13 posted on 08/11/2005 8:54:08 AM PDT by JimWforBush (Alcohol - For the best times you'll never remember)
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To: TonyRo76
I've never been much into "Jersey Girls" anyway. Too fast-talking and East Coast-ish.

Yeah, but all you have to do is get them into your Camaro, and have Bon Jovi playing on the stereo, and they melt in your hands.

14 posted on 08/11/2005 8:54:33 AM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Maria S
I bet Kristen Breitweiser feels the same way.

Don't forget how they chirped in unison... “It was on Bush's watch!”

15 posted on 08/11/2005 8:55:35 AM PDT by johnny7 (Racially-profiling since 1963)
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To: Rodney King

What do the Jersey Girls and Cindy Sheehan have in common?


17 posted on 08/11/2005 8:57:15 AM PDT by neodad (I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way)
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To: Maria S

Snips from two of the best articles on this mess:


How Chinagate Led to 9/11
By Jean Pearce
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 25, 2004
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=13516
As the 9/11 Commission tries to uncover what kept intelligence agencies from preventing September 11, it has overlooked two vital factors: Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton. Gorelick, who has browbeaten the current administration, helped erect the walls between the FBI, CIA and local investigators that made 9/11 inevitable. However, she was merely expanding the policy Bill Clinton established with Presidential Decision Directive 24. What has been underreported is why the policy came about: to thwart investigations into the Chinese funding of Clinton’s re-election campaign, and the favors he bestowed on them in return. -snip-



Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta?

By Jacob Goodwin
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/aug_05/dod_lawyers.html

In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as “Able Danger,” identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to “take out that cell,” according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. -snip-


18 posted on 08/11/2005 8:57:58 AM PDT by Maria S
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It too the DNC all of 15 seconds to pull them out.

It is OBVIOUS the Clintons did not want al queda stopped.

Every DNC talking head on FNC is using the "gold star mothers for peace" faux group.

The goal of the democrats is VERY clear now, they don't care about the 9/11 commission. They want "viet nam" public opinion so they can use pulling out as a campaign issue. Even IF GWBush starts pulling troops back correctly, they will say it is because of Political pressure.


We SHOULD have CRIMINAL investigations as to who kept this from the 9/11 commission. As of right now, the 9/11 commission is 100% discredited. (it was before but not the left can not deny it.)

Gorelick is a traitor.


19 posted on 08/11/2005 8:58:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: clee1

That inane comment tells you all you need to know about New Jersey, period.


20 posted on 08/11/2005 9:04:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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