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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (39800)	4/16/2004 3:13:35 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 793772

Tom Kean and another former NJ governor, Brendan Byrne, have an occasional "discussion of the issues" column in the Sunday Newark Star Ledger. It no longer amazes me what Kean and Byrne find acceptable political practice. Just "business as usual" in the state of NJ.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (39800)	4/16/2004 4:31:53 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793772

It isn't just Gorelick who is now in hot water. Based on their remarks on Wednesday and Thursday, both Kean and fellow commissioner, former Sen. Slade Gorton are taking heat from 9/11 families for telling critics during TV interviews to stay "out of our business." This commission was created to look into why 9/11 occurred. If that isn't the American people's business I don't know what is? And since the commission decided to make some testimony public, there is no question that it is everyone's business. Kean and Gorton are just plain wrong. M

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (39800)	4/16/2004 4:37:42 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793772

NO one's talking about her law firm defending Arabs AGAINST the 911 FAMILIES who accuse them of FUNDING THE DAMN MURDERING TERRORISTS!!! No one sees a conflict here?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (39800)	4/16/2004 4:38:07 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 793772

9/11 commission members told to avoid partisanship, source says BY JAMES GORDON MEEK New York Daily News WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Members of the 9/11 commission were warned this week to avoid partisan attacks when the nation's top intelligence and law enforcement officials testified, sources told the Daily News. Fears that the perception of partisanship could harm the credibility of the commission's ultimate findings compelled Republican Thomas Kean, the chairman, and Democrat Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman, to tell their colleagues to cool it. "This is seriously hurting us," fretted a commission source. Kean's scolding came the day before Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI director Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno testified. A week earlier, the panel appeared to split along party lines during the grilling of former counterterror czar Richard Clarke and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. "A number of Republicans and Democrats spoke out to say we've really got to get away from (partisanship)," the source added, noting that commissioners went easy on most witnesses at the hearings into FBI and CIA missteps before the 9/11 attacks. Republicans on the panel saw most of the partisanship coming from Democrats who the source said are "politically on the attack against President Bush in the press and in hearings." They cited former congressman Tim Roemer, former prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste and former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick. Some Republican commissioners were cheered when Ashcroft pinned partial blame for 9/11 on Gorelick for her role in a controversial 1995 Justice Department legal policy that kept criminal and intelligence agents from sharing information. "I was delighted to see somebody in the Bush administration go on the counterattack so the Republican commissioners don't have to," the source said. But partisanship might be seen the other way by Democrats. Republican Fred Fielding is the designated Bush liaison on the panel and talks daily with White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the source admitted. When asked Wednesday whether commissioners pulled punches with witnesses such as ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh and Ashcroft, Kean said, "I don't think people were particularly easy on the (witnesses)." Rest at: myrtlebeachonline.com.