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To: Sully- who wrote (2003)	4/23/2004 5:46:09 PM
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They are going after Gorelick. Good! After the way the committee went after Rice, she deserves it. I think the Dem members of the committee planned all along to issue a separate report indicting Bush. This quashes it's effects. - From: LindyBill <font size=4> 11 GOP senators urge Gorelick to testify <font size=3> By Charles Hurt and Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published April 23, 2004 <font size=4> Eleven Republican senators sent a letter to the September 11 commission yesterday, asking that panel member Jamie S. Gorelick testify publicly about her role in defining the relationship between law enforcement and intelligence during her tenure in the Clinton Justice Department. "It is our firm belief that any committee report or recommendations will be incomplete without public testimony by Ms. Gorelick about her activities while serving as deputy attorney general," Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican, wrote in the letter. Ten other Republicans signed the note, which was released last night after being sent to commission Chairman Thomas H. Kean, a Republican, and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton, a Democrat. The senators did not call for her resignation from the commission, as some Republican House members have. As the No. 2 person in the Clinton Justice Department, Ms. Gorelick wrote a memo in 1995 outlining the reasons intelligence services and law-enforcement agencies should be restricted in the information they share. She served as deputy attorney general from 1994 to 1997. Ms. Gorelick set guidelines that went beyond those prescribed by law, according to her own memo. <font size=3> Attorney General Janet Reno made her the key player at the Justice Department on the relationship between intelligence and law enforcement, as Ms. Gorelick testified in 1995 to the Senate Intelligence Committee. "When I came over to be her deputy, she asked me to take this on as a special project," Ms. Gorelick said. <font size=4> The Gorelick matter -- along with the tone of some commissioners' questions -- has brought accusations of partisanship against the panel. Many Republicans say they have lost faith in the commission's ability to come up with a final report that has credibility with the American people. <font size=3> "The attitude displayed by individual members of the committee is very troubling to me," said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, who signed Mr. Bond's letter. Other Republican senators signing the note are Trent Lott of Mississippi, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Robert F. Bennett of Utah, Conrad Burns of Montana, Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. Democrats have stood by Ms. Gorelick, with key House and Senate leaders saying she shouldn't recuse herself from any proceedings. Earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, said: "I think that she has acted responsibly. Even Chairman Tom Kean has said that it is his view she has done a remarkable job as one of the commissioners, and I don't believe there is any need for recusing." <font size=4> Mark R. Levin, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, which has called for Ms. Gorelick to step down, said the commission has painted itself into a box by forcing National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly. "If sworn public testimony is so important to the work of this commission, which it appears it is, then why would the commission deny itself the same investigative technique with regard to Commissioner Gorelick?" he asked. Ms. Gorelick has been interviewed privately by the commission, but some critics say the commission is avoiding having her testify publicly because that would prove she has too great a conflict to serve on the panel. "If she testifies publicly, and she's a commissioner, that would bring public attention and focus to this very bizarre situation," said Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who has written several critiques of Ms. Gorelick's involvement in the commission. "To do so sort of brings this issue to a boil."