An author of the “wall” was also an author of the cover-up of the “wall”
We described Jamie Gorelick’s dissembling about her role in the creation, heightening and reinforcement of the “wall” below. Recall now that she was allowed to be an author of the report that covered-up the role of the “wall” in letting Mohammed Atta roam free in America to unleash the al Qaeda 9-11 plan. This from the Washington Times in April 2004:
September 11 commission member Jamie S. Gorelick, who recused herself from questioning some Clinton administration officials last week, still can help draft parts of the board’s final report on the “wall” between intelligence and law enforcement that she defended while in the Clinton Justice Department.
Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the commission, said Ms. Gorelick’s recusal applies to the time she was deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, so she is free to take part in the investigation and drafting of the report for anything that happened after she left.
That, he said, includes the legal barrier known as “the wall,” which prevented the sharing of information between law-enforcement and intelligence officials. “The wall as it existed after she left, the wall as it existed in the beginning of the Bush administration, she’s perfectly free to ask questions about,” Mr. Felzenberg said.
In light of Gorelick’s participation in the authorship of the 9-11 report, don’t the comments of Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg, as reported in the NYT, seem damning? He is describing the reaction of the writers of the Commission’s final report to the military officer who described Able Danger and the information it provided on Atta:
“The information that he provided us did not mesh with other conclusions that we were drawing” from the commission’s investigation.
Talk about the fox in the henhouse! No doubt the information on Atta and Able Danger “did not mesh with the other conclusions” that the Commission was drawing. Did the commission expect that Gorelick would point the finger at herself? One is put in mind of the film No Way Out, wherein the person leading the investigation knows that the finger will be pointed at him, and does all he can to mis-direct the investigation.