The Second Gorelick Wall Comes Tumblin' Down

....beneath the growing flood of revelations of Clintonoid negligence and 9/11 commission obstructionism. The New York Post's Debra Orin lands the latest haymaker, a second memo from then-U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White blasting the (first) Gorelick Wall:

President Bill Clinton's team 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....

"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, herself a Clinton appointee.

"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."

She added: "We must face the reality that the way we are proceeding now is inherently and in actuality very dangerous." [emphases added]

You would think that so prophetic a warning as this would have made it into the 9/11 commission's final report somewhere. But as Ed Morrissey details, the closest it came to any criticism of the Gorelick Wall was in the excuse that it was wasn't really a wall but was applied that way because its "complexities" were "misunderstood."

But clearly not every DOJ employee was clueless - such as this FBI agent (from page 271):

Whatever has happened to this—someday someone will die—and wall or not—the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain “problems.” Let’s hope the National Security Law Unit will stand behind their decisions then, especially since the biggest threat to us now, UBL, is getting the most “protection.” [emphases added]

This agent didn't misunderstand anything. Like Mary Jo White, s/he knew exactly what a handicap the Gorelick Wall was and the functionally inevitable, and lethal, consequences it would have - and at whose hands they would come.

This, again, speaks to the core of "Attagate": the fact that Jamie Gorelick was a commissioner asking questions instead of a witness answering them despite her obvious, roaring, gaping conflict of interest, which debased the entire investigatory exercise into a textbook Clinton-style coverup.

Cap'n Ed devotes his Weekly Standard column today to another daisy-cutter the 9/11 "Omission" neglected to look into, because it could have accordianed their most cherished fetish: Iraqi operations in Germany that might have been connected to al Qaeda and 9/11.

[UPDATE 8/18: More on that here.]

He also concludes his blog post about the only way one can: "Again, we ask: what else got left out of the report? And again, we expect to see another answer tomorrow, if not sooner."

Here's one more: Hillary Clinton's silence on this maelstrom has been deafening. And her presidential ambitions have no desire or intention of inheriting this whirlwind, so don't expect that to change any time soon.