Gorelick memo a smoking gun?

The American Thinker ^ | 8 22 05 | Thomas Lifson

[AliVeritas]

William Tate believes he has identified what amounts to the smoking gun in placing responsibility where it belongs for the failure to connect the dots on Atta and his gang. He points to a memorandum issued by Jamie Gorelick in 1995. Writing on whatsinthenews.com, he notes that others have focused on the language of the memo, which clearly states that the wall being errected between justice and defense agencies, preventing intelligence esharing, goes beyond the requirements of the law. But equally important, he avers, is the the list of recipients, particularly a little-noticed entity, the Office of Intelligence Policy Review.

According to the DoJ's website:

"The Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, under the direction of the Counsel for Intelligence Policy, is responsible for advising the Attorney General on all matters relating to the national security activities of the United States. The Office prepares and files all applications for electronic surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, assists Government agencies by providing legal advice on matters of national security law and policy, and represents the Department of Justice on variety of interagency committees such as the National Counterintelligence Policy Board. The Office also comments on and coordinates other agencies' views regarding proposed legislation affecting intelligence matters.

[Jaysun]

The lovely Mister Reno. Scarcely a Clinton scandal surfaces that doesn't have his bulldyke's enormous paw prints all over it.

[maxter]

Zeroing in on Gorelick, Clinton.

[frogjerk]

KORESH: "Don't mess with Mister Reno, I really got burned on that deal..."

[rellimpank]

--and I believe , as Rush pointed out a couple of years ago, one of the primary purposes of the "wall" was to prevent usage of anything the CIA stumbled on pertaining to Clinton's treasonous dealings with the Chinese from being useable in criminal prosecution of him---

[Sacajaweau]

Mary Jo White's memo regarding the wall is very clear. It was ignored BECAUSE the Dems were in office. When John Ashcroft flamed about the wall, the Dems just sat silently....almost as if to say..."Well, John...That's just the way it was. It's not a blame thing".

[Wil H]

"Smoking Gun"?


It's a Damn Howitzer!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Chuck Grassley gets worked up about $700 toilet seats for Air Force planes. Why not this ?

[Sunshine Sister]

Agreed. No one will take responsibility for this debachle. Thank goodness for alternative media. Those someb*tches can't hide any more.

[Gulf War One]

At least he finally stopped smoking...

[randog]

This article doesn't mention it, but I believe I read last week that Gorelick got her start in Washington at the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), and some other Clinton lackey took over once she (Gorelick) was moved into Justice as the de facto US AG.

[conservativecorner]

Damn straight Skippy BUMP!!

[The_Victor]

"Smoking Gun"?

It's a Damn Howitzer!

Bigger still

[GianniV]

Feel free to contact Jamie at her swank DC law firm - http://www.wilmerhale.com/jamie_gorelick/ .

[Jaysun]

KORESH: "Don't mess with Mister Reno, I really got burned on that deal..."

Incidentally, I lived very nearby at the time. We were made to stay in a motel for the first month of the siege and I knew about a dozen of the victims very well. I stood on my front porch and watched them burn.

The people that we knew were decent, not kooks by any stretch of the imagination. They told us that the place was basically there to help people get on their feet, that they helped each other out until they could move on. Maybe they were psychos I don't know. Nevertheless, it was tragic to see them killed like that.

[Jaysun]

Mary Jo White's memo regarding the wall is very clear. It was ignored BECAUSE the Dems were in office. When John Ashcroft flamed about the wall, the Dems just sat silently....almost as if to say..."Well, John...That's just the way it was. It's not a blame thing".

I know. I also watched as the saboteurs brushed off their sins like they were nothing. It still turns my stomach.

[Search4Truth]

Of all the things the Clintons are, stupid is not one of them. And the worst that you can think of their ruthlessness is usually underestimated. That is one of their advantages, that their ruthlessness is incomprehensible to most people.

Knowing how shrewd and ruthless these people are, I would not be surprised to find that they purposely created the environment in which 911 could happen. They knew it was inevitable. I'm sure they also knew what an opportunity that would afford them to increase their power and punish their political enemies. The wrench in their machine was, by the grace of God, Gore lost the election.

The ruthlessness of the Clinton regime is never to be underestimated.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"KORESH: "Don't mess with Mister Reno, I really got burned on that deal..."

GREAT POST!

I haven't laughted so hard in a while.

[Just mythoughts]

Had it not been for John Ashcroft outing Gorelick and her memo, the Commission would have pulled of the hoax of the century.

Now what is also apparent is that some on the commission were on a fishing expedition to discover what changes President Bush and Rummy had put into place to fight these terrorists, as well as whitewash their wall.

Hillry sitting on the Armed Forces Committee should be a glaring point of light. Remember these liberals kept accusing the Bush administration of "secrecy" of all things.

[Wuli]

You hit it. "Terrorism" was not the driving force behind the Clinton motives for creation of the "wall". The motive was how to thwart, hinder, delay, and prevent "international intelligence" on China, its campaign contributions to Clinton and others, the relationship between those contributions and technology transfers to China from reaching domestic investigations into those issues. The means the wall created was the single office that would be soley responsible for all the legal filtering between foreign and domestic intelligence and the polical basis of that office and who Clinton gave that office to.