9-11 Commission overlooks pre-Bush policies


Did the 9-11 Commission try to protect one of it's own?

This is one of those stories you wish would make the news, but somehow never does. It's been percolating openly for a couple of days now, although there were questions at least as far back as June of 2004.

In 1995, then Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick issued a memo that raised a wall between intelligence gathering and law enforcement. As Deborah Orin details here, that wall kept military intelligence from requesting that lawmen lock up Mohammed Atta and three other highjackers a year before the 9-11 attacks happened.

It's been widely speculated among the more fanatical right that Mrs. Gorelick's real reason for being on the 9-11 Commission was to keep it from taking too close a look at what the Clinton Administration did and didn't do.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - August 12, 2005 at 08:18 PM  Tag


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