ABLE DANGER---WTF?

Very Late Add: Rush was all over this story early this AM. The NY Post has much of the story. It seems much of what I have below is correct: the main villian is Gorelik, BUT Reno may be even worse. BOTH are Hillary appointees. Mary Jo White, the New York prosecutor, had warned the White House TWICE about the walls and the danger they posed. BUT THE REAL VILLIAN IS: You and me for our PC and for allowing this PC to obtain in all our government actions, screenings, and dialogue. NY Post has most of it.

Hunch 273: look to Hillary, Gorelik, and the White House too. How to explain the bizarre omission of the early (1776) tip that Atta and the boys were hanging out and ready to roll? The cover up of the info leads to at least ONE possible conclusion, and that is the name that pops up everywhere: Jamie Gorelik. This is one of the worst Clinton appointments on almost every level. Now it turns out that she was actually Hillary's appointment. It was Hillary's desire to place so-called "walls" between all government agencies whereby they were forbidden to share information, no matter how important to the security of the United States. Her hard and fast rules were allegedly being obeyed. Gorelik implimented the policies, with a vengence. It must also be noted that these "walls" began with the Church Commission in the 70's in response to clear violations of citizen rights at the time. They were built higher and higher, but when Gorelik entered the mix they grew higher and thicker and woe to the person who violated the walls; meaning their careers would be over.

Is it really possible that the entire 9/11 Commission deliberately left out the Able Danger Report to cover up one lousy woman out of ten or twenty? (Yes, because Gorelik was a member of the Committee as well as a FOB ie; Friend of Bill) Is it possible that a committee dominated by Republicans would cover up the raging incompetence of a Democratic Administration? And an obviously horrible Appointment?

First, let us all remember how Bush did everything in his power not to name a commission at all, and when it was named he underfunded it. Why????? WTF? What was it he was afraid would be discovered? More later.

WTF #2: I just have to stop my Right Wing brain for a second and ponder. Who were the Republicans on the Committee who needed Able Danger swept under the rug? Who were those commissioners again?

Tom Kean (R, NJ), former governor of arguably the most corrupt state in the union. His connections look like a liberal darling's Who's Who.

He headed the American delegation to the UN Conference on Youth in Thailand, served as vice chairman of the American delegation to the World Conference on Women in Beijing; and served as a member of the President's Initiative on Race. He also served on the National Endowment for Democracy. He is chair of the Newark Alliance and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and former chair of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Educate America, and the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation.

So, a total RINO, basically a member of the east coast liberal establishment who had no agenda to support anything Republican. But would he actually cover up? If you can remember his attack on all us peasants regarding our criticism of the Commission when he basically said we were all too stupid to know what was going on and to shut up. There is an odor there.

The behavior of Lee Hamilton (D IN) cannot be explained by RINOism, crony liberalism, or anything else. Is he senile? Easily led? This guy is a card carrying centerist, and you would call him slightly to the Right of center on abortion to the Left ot it on special rights for Blacks. But there is nothing there to indicate that he'd engage in a cover up..

Fred Fielding is as pedigreed a Republican as you can imagine, serving GOP presidents from Ford through Bush One.

Next we have Slade Gorton (R WA) another clear Republican. After him, there is former Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman a pure Republican and his credentials cannot be challenged. Then we have a blue blood conservative, Timothy J. Roemer. Last, we have James R. Thompson (R-IL) was former governor and has a sterling track record of going after corruption while in Illinois. He was the first head of Homeland Security.

But on the Left there is el Clintonista Magnifico , the Left attack dog himself: Richard Ben-Veniste. This guy had one agenda only and it wasn't to make America safe from terrorist attack. His sole purpose was to keep Clinton clean at all costs. He had been chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975 in which capacity we can assume he did anything and everything to hang Richard Nixon; after all it was Nixon who was most responsible for nailing Democratic Left Darling and Russian spy, Alger Hill, or was it Hiss? Veniste was chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater Committee, and did everything and anything to keep the Clintons from going to jail. He is a top lawyer with a big big rep for being tenacious and tough. His style is always attack. It follows that he would move Heaven and earth to keep Hillary appointee, Jamie Gorelik, out of the soup as job one.

Then we have Jamie herself. She made her liberal bones as vice chair of the nearly totally corrupt Fannie Mae; it was on her watch that they were rolling profits forward and backward to cover up the fact that they had made too many bad loans. She had also been deputy attorney general of the United States and before that she had been general counsel of the Department of Defense. So she had been in one of the departments responsible for some of the intel failures and as a part of the Justice Department under Hillary there was at least tangential involvement in national security. Gorelik is connected everywhere.

Lastly there was Bob Kerrey (D NE). A doctrinaire liberal but no indication that he was dishonest, on the contrary everything about him indicates independence.

So what we are left with is an attempt to cover up Jamie Gorelek/Hillary Clinton/Bill Clinton responsibilities in the intel mess prior to 9/11.

And it just turns out that when Able Danger is factored into the mix, there was no failure with our basic intel at all. The failure was in the rules set up by Hillary appointee Jamie Gorelik. Period. Now if we include Gorelik bud, document stealer extrodinaire Sandy Berger in the mix we really have something.

This is very very weird. Could it have been a simple error? By everyone? I can't see error by either Gorelik or Ben-Veniste. Both had to be at least knowledgeable about the exclusion of Able Danger, a story that would tar the Clintons forever.

At least let's hope so.

But then how do you explain the roll over by the Republicans on the Committee? I'll buy Atwater being in his dotage and Kean certainly seems like a person white water rafting in a leaking canoe, but Thompson? Lehman?

And then there is the White House and Bush fighting like hell against a Commission being formed. Is it possible that the White House had the Able Danger report too and just ignored it?

Lots to think about.

References: Captains Quarters, Just One Minute, long long long link here, and Maxed Out Mama can lead you to lots.

So, now that I've had my piece---keep in mind that I'm lining up facts to fit my scenario. There is not a shred of evidence that this info was covered up by the committee. There is absolute evidence that this information was buried by staff. Was the staff directed to cover it up? Taa daa..... Oh, and what was Sandy Berger sticking into his sock????