Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Clintonoids Knew Of 9/11 Hijackers

This isn't news by any stretch of the imagination, but it bears repeating ad infinitum: 9/11 could have been prevented by the Clinton administration, but they did nothing to stop it.

More than a year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration intelligence officials had identified four of the 19 9/11 hijackers as a terrorist threat - including al-Qaida team leader Mohamed Atta and his partner Marwan al-Shehhi, whose planes destroyed the World Trade Center and killed over 2,700 people.

But the critical information was not acted on, at least in part, because of prohibitions against intelligence sharing implemented by former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who was reportedly installed in her post at the insistence of then-first lady Hillary Clinton. [emphasis added]

Just a little terrifying reminder of the "anti-terror" policies we'll be returning to three and a half years from now.

Naturally, the much-ballyhooed 9/11 commission, of which that same Jamie Gorelick outrageously was a member, left that little detail out of its final report:

In its final report, however, the 9/11 Commission made no mention of the fact that the Clinton administration had identified key members of the hijack team, even though, the Times noted, that information had been shared with 9/11 Commission members.

A real attorney-general bluntly placed the blame squarely where it belongs:

In testimony before the 9/11 Commission last year, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft blasted Gorelick's "Wall," saying, "The single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents"

"[Ms. Gorelick] built that wall," said Ashcroft, "through a March 1995 memo."

Gorelick will be Hillary's A-G, folks.

Just thought you ought to know, while there's still time to do something about it.