Jamie Gorelick

Jamie S. Gorelick served as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno. A significant part of the 9/11 commission's report considered whether she or Ashcroft was more to blame for the effects of the "wall" she created between CIA and FBI; see 1995 Gorelick memo.

• The 9/11 Commission’s inquiry into the "wall" that formerly separated U.S. intelligence from law enforcement operations has become a news story du jour. (Lew Rockwell)

• If Jamie Gorelick were a Republican, you can be sure our colleagues in the Fourth Estate would be leading the chorus of complaint that the Commission's objectivity has been fatally compromised by a member who was also one of the key personalities behind the failed antiterror policy that the Commission has under scrutiny. -- Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal reported that:

During the investigation of the first World Trade Center bombing, Gorelick instructed then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and United States Attorney Mary Jo White that for the sake of "appearances" they would be required to adhere to an interpretation of the wall far stricter than the law required. [1]

Also in the Journal:

The Mary Jo White prosecutions and the 2001 Moussaoui arrest were among our best chances to uncover and unravel the al Qaeda network before it struck the homeland. But thanks in part to the Clinton Administration's concern with appearances and in part to its legacy, these investigations were hamstrung. [2]

External links

• Gorelick's Wall: The Commissioner belongs in the witness chair - The Wall Street Journal, review and outlook