Senate Republicans call on Gorelick to testify

[hedgetrimmer]

Commissioner Jamie Gorelick served in the Justice Department under the Clinton administration.

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Lawmakers cite commissioner's prior role

From Ed Henry
CNN Washington Bureau
Friday, April 23, 2004 Posted: 0136 GMT (0936 HKT)



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven Senate Republicans fired off a letter Thursday to the 9/11 commission demanding that Jamie Gorelick, a Democratic member of the panel, be forced to testify.

The senators want Gorelick to testify about her role in strengthening the so-called "wall" between the FBI and CIA that some say hampered government efforts to prevent terrorist attacks.

The letter, which was spearheaded by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, asserts that the commission's final report "will be incomplete without public testimony by Ms. Gorelick about her activities while serving as deputy attorney general" in the Clinton administration.

"It is imperative the committee explore with Ms. Gorelick these many initiatives and procedures pursued at her direction and any analysis leading to their formulation," the letter said.

During her tenure at the Justice Department, Gorelick wrote a memorandum establishing distinctions between intelligence that could be used for law enforcement purposes and intelligence that could be used for national security purposes.


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link: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/22/commission.senators/index.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. This is grandstanding/timewasting that will backfire.

Just like the republicans asking for Kerry's military records.

[Habibi]

11. That was my first thought, too.

So I hope she testifies. What fun!

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Eat shit Repukes.

Your own hero Georgie has to have his uncle Dickie hold his hand when he testifies, and they aren't even under oath.

Not to mention that this whole whitewash farce was put together by Repukes anyway.

Only reukes can whine about a commitee that they put together being too partisan.

[daleo]

3. If Gore would have not have had the presidency stolen from him

The name Gorelick would have seemed pretty funny. Too bad there isn't a Bushlick, outside Fox News.

P.S. I know it is stupid to say this but it is difficult to be earnest all the time. Sorry.

[Elidor]

4. Grandstanding, indeed

"Gorelick has already faced a demand by House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, that she step down from the panel because of her alleged conflict-of-interest."

You want to talk about conflict of interest? Let's talk about Zelikow!

[BR_Parkway]

9. But with the reThug Talk Squad - all you hear about is

Gorelick, "what about her conflict?" If you ask the same person about Zelikow, they get the deer in the headlights look.

[Democat]

10. Then where are the Senate Democrats fighting back?

Why don't we have our own headlines calling the right wingers on the panel biased and conflicted?

Our side is always quiet compared to the right.

We need some more fighters on our team.

[BlueEyedSon]

12. Zelikow... yup, big conflicts

March 22, 2004

Groups call for the resignation of Sept. 11 commission director

By Chris Strohm
[e-mail]

Public interest groups are demanding the immediate resignation of the director of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, just as the commission prepares to hold high-profile hearings this week with senior officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations.

The 9-11 Family Steering Committee and 9-11 Citizens Watch, two separate groups, are demanding the resignation of Philip Zelikow, executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, after information surfaced over the weekend that he participated in Bush administration briefings prior to Sept. 11 on the threat al Qaeda posed to the country.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0304/032204c1.htm

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_03_21.php#002747

[jobycom]

5. This is their way of invalidating the Commission's findings

They know Bush will be blasted by the commission, so they are finding some way to claim it was rigged. This is just to give Rush something to tell his listeners.

[librechik]

7. they are finding many ways to smear the committee in advance

of the report. Very suspicious if you ask me.

[MGKrebs]

6. Uh, sorry 'Pubs, that would be

the Patriot Act hearings, not the 9/11 gig.

I don't care if the CIA and the FBI weren't talking to each other. I never bought into the Homeland Security Departmant anyway.

Bush
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Tenet Mueller

Something like that? Let me spell it our for you Kit: Even if the CIA and the FBI weren't talking to each other, they were both talking to your punk-ass leader. So HE'S fucked, and you're stupid and pathetic.

Quotes from the Kit Bond website:

"The highest honor is to receive and safeguard the public trust" When do we start, Kit?

"after serving as a clerk to the Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta," if I'd a'known, I'd a kicked his ass then!

"Like most Missourians, Bond believes that government and taxes should be no bigger than necessary." Well, like just about everybody on the PLANET, dipshit.

"As the chairman of the subcommittee that rewrites the federal highway bill, Bond will use his clout to continue this battle for Missouri. And Bond has moved swiftly at the federal level to ensure Missouri remains at the front of the biotechnology revolution" Oh, I guess this stuff is "necessary", and that Missouri is the BEST place for biotechnology. Fuckwad.

Edited to deal with certain comma issues. Oh yeah, and the delete button sticks.

[Ernesto]

8. Discredit, discredit, discredit

Call names, make charges, stall, delay...... Why don't repukes stop trying to act like their foolish leader and get somthing accomplished? ..... By the way, Jamie is a pretty hot ol liberal babe, ain't she?

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. I guess these Republicans didn't get Zell Miller's plea to take the

partisanship out of the commission.

[NJmaverick]

14. SICK repukes playing politics with the 9/11 dead

they are truely beneath contempt. Yet the evil hypocrits dare to accuse the noble Dems of playing politics when they try to find out EXACTLY what happened that day and before.

[noonwitch]

16. This is nothing-wait until their convention in NYC.

It will be sickening how they will use the dead then.

[Leados]

15. She should say

"I'll testify UNDER OATH when the President and Vice President do so in public separately."

[dflprincess]

17. Other senators signing this letter were

senators: Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Trent Lott of Mississippi, Conrad Burns of Montana; Bob Bennett of Utah; Pete Domenici of New Mexico; Don Nickles of Oklahoma; Ted Stevens of Alaska; Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; John Cornyn of Texas and Norm Coleman of Minnesota.

Leave it that weasel Coleman to be involved with this.