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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: American Spirit who wrote (21949)5/12/2004 11:42:08 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 81568
 
That's why Gorelick should testify - the people need to know the truth.

What's the Kerry campaign got to do with Gorelick anyway? Why the defensiveness?

Commissioner Gorelick is not the right person to probe intelligence lapses.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

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Commissioner Gorelick, as deputy attorney general — the number two official in the Department of Justice — for three years beginning in 1994, was an architect of the government's self-imposed procedural wall, intentionally erected to prevent intelligence agents from pooling information with their law-enforcement counterparts. That is not partisan carping. That is a matter of objective fact. That wall was not only a deliberate and unnecessary impediment to information sharing; it bred a culture of intelligence dysfunction. It told national-security agents in the field that there were other values, higher interests, that transcended connecting the dots and getting it right. It set them up to fail. To hear Gorelick lecture witnesses about intelligence lapses is breathtaking.
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