9/11 Coverup Commission

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney wrote a memo to her superiors in the Justice Department, reports the NYPost seeking to end the policy of not sharing intelligence:

[Jamie Gorelick] ignored dire warnings that its approach to terrorism was "very dangerous" and could have "deadly results," according to a blistering memo just obtained by The Post.

Then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White wrote the memo as she pleaded in vain with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick to tear down the wall between intelligence and prosecutors, a wall that went beyond legal requirements.

I'd like to see the whole memo and the date of it, but if true, this supports the Able Danger allegations, but there are still questions about the sourcing for the story, if Jed Babbin is to be believed. Babbin guest-hosted Hugh Hewitt's radio program today. He reported that the source, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, was not in a position to know the facts in the story. I guess I'll wait and see. As John Podhoretz notes, it all comes back to Jamie Gorelick, who shouldn't have been on the 9/11 commission. The existence of Gorelick's rule is not in doubt, just the latest details of how it helpe prevent the the rounding up of Mohammed Atta's cell in NYC. We already knew that the FBI failed to connect the dots. If it had received the Able Danger information there's not much proof it would have made any difference. The story of John O'Neill should have settled the question, and the 9/11 Commission missed the whole thing:

Equally troubling is that the 9/11 Commission, charged with tracing the failure to stop 9/11, got White's stunning memo and several related documents — and deep-sixed all of them.

Stunning is an understatement.

With Gorelick and Janet Reno running things, I would assume that lower level officials would have been supporters of the policy. It just won't wash to blame 9/11 on the Bush administration. It takes so long to appoint anybody in Washington, a review of old policies and putting the new administration's stamp on these agencies takes years, not months. I think Bush waited far too long to replace George Tenet, probably because he didn't realize or couldn't prove the extent to which that agency was working against him.

We have a government full of people who are ideologically opposed to the leaders elected by the people. People like Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. We also have a media establishment who hate George Bush and have nothing but disdain for the people who elected him. If you get your news from the broadcast networks and major dailies, you're probably being brainwashed. The duty of citizens is to inform themselves, even when they have to search for truth.