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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (11147)8/13/2005 2:42:34 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Deborah Orin also points an accusing finger at Jamie Gorelick.

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It gets worse. Gorelick's defenders might argue that hindsight is 20-20. But that excuse doesn't work in this case, because she was warned way back then — when the see-no-evil wall was created.

That warning came right from the front line in the War on Terror — from Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who headed up key terror probes like the prosecutions for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

White — herself a Clinton appointee — wrote directly to Reno that the wall was a big mistake.

"It is hard to be totally comfortable with instructions to the FBI prohibiting contact with the United States Attorney's Offices when such prohibitions are not legally required," White wrote on June 13, 1995.

"The most effective way to combat terrorism is with as few labels and walls as possible so that wherever permissible, the right and left hands are communicating."

That memo surfaced during the 9/11 hearings. But The Post has learned that White was so upset that she bitterly protested with another memo — a scathing one — after Reno and Gorelick refused to tear down the wall.

With eerie foresight, White warned that the Reno-Gorelick wall hindered law enforcement and could cost lives, according to sources familiar with the memo — which is still secret.

The 9/11 Commission got that White memo, The Post was told — but omitted any mention of it from its much-publicized report. Nor does the report include the transcript of its staff interview with White.
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I remember that when the Commission was holding its public hearings, people were demanding that Jamie Gorelick testify and pointing out the conflict of interest she had. Orin reminds us of what Senator Cornyn said at the time, 
    as a frustrated Cornyn said in 2004: "[Gorelick] is a 
    person with knowledge of relevant facts. Either the 
    commission wants the whole truth or it does not."

But the Commission closed ranks behind Gorelick and said she was wonderful, working hard, and that no one on the Commission had any doubts about her conflicts of interest. Now, it seems that they deliberately left out of their final report anything that would disturb their story that Gorelick's wall of separation had prevented intelligence sharing that might have had an impact before 9/11. how insidious their omissions were.

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