There must have been a "gentleman's agreement" on the 9/11 Commission, to the effect that the Republicans wouldn't trash the Clinton Administration and the Democrat's wouldn't trash the Bush Administration. Of course the Democrats, not being gentlemen and women, broke the agreement.
There must have been. It would have been so easy for Pres. Bush, when the report was delivered, to have said "but I think the Commission was flawed by its inclusion of Ms Gorelick on the panel..." or some such thing. The story could have had some traction if Bush had kept bringing it up.