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2004-04-14 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-14 1:35:03 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I missed this today. After watching the blame game going on in the press I wonder how much of this gets out. Problem is, that it's not a big story when a hack is compared to a president.

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-14 1:40:51 AM|| 2004-04-14 1:40:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 McCarthy stated in a National Review column Gorelick was "committed to the bitter end to the law enforcement mindset" of addressing terrorism.

Stuff in the National Review will make it into radio talk and Drudge had an article from CNN that gave the Gorelick memo a paragraph or so in a two page article. It's hard to say whether it will fly.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-14 3:30:38 AM|| 2004-04-14 3:30:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Kucky, I posted an article late concerning Trilogy. Did you get a chance to look at it?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-14 3:51:20 AM|| 2004-04-14 3:51:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 As the "Anon" who posted this yesterday, I just wanted to get some more input from the world, and give the Atty General a few kudos! There are all kinds of PDBs, and various and sundry extraneous acronyms for reecyclable paper. In fact some career bureaucrats put out so many memos and directives they forget even the important ones which should have a bearing on one position in a future commission. Hmm...

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-14 11:22:12 AM|| 2004-04-14 11:22:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Anon, it was a good catch.
I hope it has legs. Here is a taste of the reaction from another link that was titled Gorelick Licked:

Not only did Ashcroft add to the growing pressure on Gorelick to testify before the commission rather than serve on it, specifically about what she and the administration she served failed to do about terrorism. Above all, he discredited her in the eyes of her fellow commissioners. Clearly she had never informed them of this memorandum. Now they were caught by surprise and made to look foolish.

One could detect the power of Ashcroft's bombshell in the subsequent questioning. Richard Ben-Veniste's edge turned to smarm. He greeted the two surprise guests who had accompanied Ashcroft to the hearing, his respected former deputy Larry Thompson and Solicitor General Ted Olson. Ben-Veniste referred to him as "Mr. Olson," and offered renewed condolences on the death of Barbara Olson on 9/11. With Olson on Ashcroft's side, there was no way he could look bad.

Ben-Veniste's only pointed question proved an embarrassment, repeating as it did morning press stories fed by Democrat leaks to the effect that Ashcroft would be asked about why he had started flying in government planes and not commercially before 9/11. When Ashcroft replied that all his personal flying had continued to be done commercially, as was his wife's, Ben-Veniste was left red-faced, grasping at a dwindling number of straws.

But he couldn't have been more red-faced than Gorelick. Initially she tried mouthing denials to fellow commissioners that she was author of the memo. But when a copy was handed to her, listing her as initialed author, she had nowhere to hide.

Her round of questions came last. Unlike Bob Kerrey, say, who was cordial with Ashcroft and even said it was good to see the AG "on the mend" after his recent hospitalization and operation, Gorelick established no human contact during her half-hearted queries -- none of which engaged the central point of Ashcroft's opening statement. The Democrats wanted to play hardball, but ended up clubbed on the head themselves.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-14 12:14:48 PM|| 2004-04-14 12:14:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 [utters sympathetic groan for Gorelick, sounding exactly like what would be uttered upon seeing a male sports figure taking a hit on the cajones. Or being asked to get circumcised after the age of 30...]

Posted by Ptah 2004-04-14 12:25:45 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-04-14 12:25:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey Super Hose. No didn't, but followed up, thnx.

I would still like to see homeland security put under the UMCJ with the Coast Guard finally becoming a true military force.

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-14 11:40:26 PM|| 2004-04-14 11:40:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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