Freeh to attack 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelink tomorrow

[underpants]

I ran across this today as DU was down (courtesy of the Freep).

Freeh is diggin for his life when he should be treading water, or at least trying to. He is going to try to do a Clarke and give the insider's view of the Clinton White House. We already have that from Clarke but this will be spun as a SLAM on Clinton tomorrow. I am sure Rove has already written the "I told YOU!!!!" sound bite.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/12/140006.shtml

In her first year as deputy U.S. attorney general in the Clinton administration, Sept. 11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick was warned that lax U.S. immigration policies made the U.S. a tempting target for terrorists, former FBI Director Louis Freeh revealed on Monday, suggesting that Gorelick did little to remedy the situation.

"Protecting our homeland from attacks by foreign terrorists had long been the FBI's priority," said Freeh in a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.


"Back in September 1994, I recommended to Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick that the DoJ strengthen investigative powers against suspected 'undesirable aliens,' accelerating deportation appeal proceedings and limiting U.S. participation in a visa waiver pilot program under which 9.5 million foreigners entered the U.S. in 1994."

[LittleApple81]

1. At least she will be there to confirm, deny, or defend. n/t

[rfranklin]

2. They were right on top of that issue in the Bush White House...

Right, Mr. Freeh?

What an asshole. Clinton should have canned his sorry ass.

[madmom]

10. Yes Freeh is a

major asshole and tenured (couldn't be canned)george h. w.bush.Clinton was stuck with him.Freeh hated Bill Clinton so much that he turned in his white house pass in the early 1990's.Vowing to go there only as a visitor.As a member of the nsc he should have been there.Freeh is one of the repukes that should be held accountable for 9/11

[peacetalksforall]

3. Sound like a policy or regulatory change by the House and Senate.......

Someone should ask him if he proposed that the House and Senate change the legislation.

But, it will probably be blame Clinton, as usual.

[snippy]

4. As I recall the Congress was very busy investigating blow jobs.

How very republican. Perhaps Congress could have exercised its oversight responsibilities a little more intelligently.

[Dudley_DUright]

11. Along with about 78 FBI agents

that Freeh "loaned" to Ken Starr.

"There is no conceivable way to justify these types of expenditures," Leahy said yesterday. "This is after he tied up 78 FBI agents" assigned to his office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr082899.htm

[keithyboy]

5. She should just say, "I agree, Mr Freeh, I dropped the ball then now let's

move on to the questions."

[ComerPerro]

6. Well, I just wish he could answer one nagging question I have

Why did the Republicans in Congress, from 1996 through 1999, dismiss terrorism as a "phony issue" and a distraction?

[xray s]

7. I want to know who at the FBI ok'ed a planeload of Saudis leaving the USA

AFTER 9/11!!!!!!!!!!!!

[still_one]

8. Look what Freeh did to John O'Neal

[GeorgeGist]

9. What a FUBAR!

"Protecting our homeland from attacks by foreign terrorists had long been the FBI's priority,"

Guess why that's why the FBI missed Tim McVeigh.

[havocmom]

20. Good point theantichrist,

And the FBI regional boss who sat on the feild agents' info about questionable men in flight schools who were not interested in take offs and landings?

There seem to be a lot of petty potentates in regional FBI offices who are more interested in thwarting agents' storkes of brilliance than getting info sent to the national level for evaluation. Seems like that attitude flourished under the former director.

Welcome to the DU, theantichrist. (I sorta figured that handle belonged to the squatter in the WH though)

[Turbineguy]

12. Sounds like a good plan

Blame the commission tasked to come up with the answer!

The Bush Administration has to be taken off the hook. No, not given the benefit of the doubt, that's not enough.

If you give somebody the benefit of the doubt, you let him off without punishment, but do not re-elect him.

Bush has no interest in finding out the truth, only that he comes out smelling like a rose.

[bobbyboucher]

13. Freeh should look in the mirror. And "Newsmax"?

Please.

14. Somebody needs to ask if info leaked to the private sector

The stock market started going down on the date of the PDB, all the way to Sept 11th...it turned on that date!!!!

[gbwarming]

15. Introduced 3 months later 'Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995'

With provisions that alarmed civil liberties, immigration and gun nuts alike, this Clinton Administration bill was introduced only 3 months after Gorelick suppsedly ignored Freeh's warning.

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/fed_bills/s.390.txt
TITLE I--SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW ENHANCEMENTS
Sec. 101. Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
Sec. 102. Conspiracy to harm people or property overseas.
Sec. 103. Clarification and extension of criminal jurisdiction over
certain terrorism offense overseas.
TITLE II--IMMIGRATION LAW IMPROVEMENTS
Sec. 201. Alien terrorist removal procedures.
Sec. 202. Changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act to
facilitate removal of alien terrorists.
Sec. 203. Access to certain confidential INS files through court
order.
TITLE III--CONTROLS OVER TERRORIST FUND-RAISING
Sec. 301. Terrorist fund-raising prohibited.
TITLE IV--CONVENTION ON THE MARKING OF PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES
Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 403. Definitions.
Sec. 404. Requirement of detection agents for plastic explosives.
Sec. 405. Criminal sanctions.
Sec. 406. Exceptions.
Sec. 407. Investigative authority.
Sec. 408. Effective date.
TITLE V--NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Sec. 501. Expansion of nuclear materials prohibitions.
TITLE VI--PROCEDURAL AND TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
Sec. 601 Correction to material support provision.
Sec. 602. Expansion of weapons of mass destruction statute.
Sec. 603. Addition of terrorist offenses to the RICO statute.
Sec. 604. Addition of terrorist offenses to the money laundering
statute.
Sec. 605. Authorization for interception of communications in
certain terrorism related offenses.
Sec. 606. Clarification of maritime violence jurisdiction.
Sec. 607. Expansion of Federal jurisdiction over bomb threats.
Sec. 608. Increased penalty for explosives conspiracies.
Sec. 609. Amendment to include assaults, murder, and threats
against former Federal officials on account of the performance
of their official duties.
Sec. 610. Addition of conspiracy to terrorism offenses.
TITLE VII--ANTITERRORISM ASSISTANCE
Sec. 701. Findings.
Sec. 702. Antiterrorism assistance amendments.

[blm]

19. GREAT post. Hope more notice it.

.

[Carolina]

16. Jamie Gorelick is one tough cookie

tough enough to handle the Freepster Freeh. Clarke's book was excellent in exposing Freeh and she surely knows, as did Clarke, what a backstabbing, tone deaf, lying bastard he was, one who always did the wrong thing, followed the wrong leads, misinterpreted the given info (remember Richard Jewel of the Atlanta Olympic bombings) and who didn't recognize spies in his own house because of his partisan hatred of Clinton. Believe me she can and should serve his sorry ass back to him on a platter.

[kodi]

17. she's the best.

really like her and her abilities. she exemplifies the best american women have to offer.

and she's tough enough to chew freeh a new asshole on live tv.

[markses]

18. Not sure you wanna CHEW the new assh*le

Maybe rip? ;-)