Back
on May 25, 2004, in a column entitled, “9/11
Commission Hacks Demean 9/11's Heroes,” I wrote about the.
9/11 Commission, warning that “It’s time to shut this farce
down and send its members back into their well-earned
obscurity.”
Recent events proved I was right about this sorry collection of
showboating has-beens who had just devoted most of their hearings
in New York to attacking such 9/11 heroes as Rudy Giuliani and his
police and fire commissioners.
I specifically mentioned Democrat Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, who
I wrote should have been a witness forced to explain how as former
Attorney General Janet Reno’s deputy she had helped cripple the
intelligence community, instead of a being a commission member.
With the recent exposure of the Clinton administration’s refusal
to accept and act on information concerning 9/11 terrorist
Mohammed Atta and three of his fellow hijackers - information that
if acted upon might well have prevented 9/11 and saved 3000
innocent lives lost in that outrage - the recent disgraceful
performance of the 9/11 Commission is plain for all to see.
Now a memo written long before 9/11 by then-Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Mary Jo White, a Clinton appointee, has been obtained by
the New York Post. In it White pleaded in vain with
Deputy Attorney General Gorelick to tear down the wall between
intelligence and prosecutors, a wall the Post noted went beyond
legal requirements.
According to the Post’s Washington Bureau Chief Deborah
Orin, White's team foresaw, years in advance, that the Clinton-era
wall would make it tougher to stop mass murder.
"This is not an area where it is safe or prudent to build
unnecessary walls or to compartmentalize our knowledge of any
possible players, plans or activities," wrote White.
"The single biggest mistake we can make in attempting to
combat terrorism is to insulate the criminal side of the house
from the intelligence side of the house, unless such insulation is
absolutely necessary. Excessive conservatism...can have deadly
results."
The memo was ignored. Orin then turns her keen eye on the 9/11
Commission, which was charged with tracing the failure to stop
9/11 and got White's stunning memo and several related documents -
“and deep-sixed all of them.
“The commission's report skips lightly over the wall in three
brief pages (out of 567). It makes no mention at all of White's
passionate and prescient warnings. Yet warnings that went ignored
are just what the commission was supposed to examine.”
Concluded Orin, “So it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the
commission ignored White's memo because it was a potential
embarrassment to the woman to whom it was addressed: commission
member Jamie Gorelick.”
This whole matter unearthed by Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA, is a
bombshell but you’d never know it from reading the mainstream
media – or rather not reading it since the mainstream media is
all but ignoring it, or even worse, distorting the facts.
According to Rep. Weldon members of Able Danger, a special
intelligence investigative group, were kept out of the 9/11
Commission investigation and ignored in their final report. A
member of the group told the Washington Times that
despite having briefed commission staff members on two occasions
about the Mohamed Atta-led terrorist cell and telling them of a
lockdown of information between the Defense Department and the
FBI, they were ignored.
Accusations that commission staffers were briefed on the Able
Danger operation but ignored the information in the final report
came from Rep. Weldon, who said potential political fallout was
one reason he was given for the information not being turned over
to the FBI.
“How could a top-secret operation against al-Qaeda not be
mentioned in the 9/11 document?" Weldon said. "It's
outrageous. It looks like someone at the staff level decided not
to pursue that information."
This is a major scandal. Had it occurred under the Bush
administration the media would be in an uproar and Democrats would
be screaming for the president’s scalp. But since it happened
because the Clinton administration failed to act, the media is all
but ignoring it. I guess it doesn’t bother the media that 3,000
innocent people died as
a result of the Clinton administration’s failures. Instead
they prefer to concentrate on the ranting and ravings of poor Cindy
Sheehan.
