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Here's what happens when Ashcroft and company (and the hysterical right-wingers on this forum) smear Gorelick. Good work, right-wingers!
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html
Gorelick's life threatened
Democratic 9/11 commisssioner Jamie Gorelick said this weekend her life was threatened after conservatives, including Tom DeLay and Rush Limbaugh, "alleged that her former work in the Justice Department may have contributed to failures leading to the attacks" and called for her resignation from the panel, CNN reported. The right-wing storm around Gorelick started last week when Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed a memo Gorelick wrote while an official in the Clinton Justice Department hamstrung anti-terror investigations before 9/11. The memo regarded the "wall" separating law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
"'I can confirm that I've received threats at my office and my home,' Gorelick told CNN on Saturday. 'I did get a bomb threat to my home.' She added, 'I have gotten a lot of very vile e-mails. The bomb threat was by phone.'"
Gorelick wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post over the weekend defending herself and straightening out the record --- the "wall" did not begin with her, the concept dates back to the Reagan administration, was reaffirmed by Ashcroft's own deputy, and her memo actually sought, if anything, to weaken the wall.
Democratic 9/11 commisssioner Jamie Gorelick said this weekend her life was threatened after conservatives, including Tom DeLay and Rush Limbaugh, "alleged that her former work in the Justice Department may have contributed to failures leading to the attacks" and called for her resignation from the panel, CNN reported. The right-wing storm around Gorelick started last week when Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed a memo Gorelick wrote while an official in the Clinton Justice Department hamstrung anti-terror investigations before 9/11. The memo regarded the "wall" separating law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
"'I can confirm that I've received threats at my office and my home,' Gorelick told CNN on Saturday. 'I did get a bomb threat to my home.' She added, 'I have gotten a lot of very vile e-mails. The bomb threat was by phone.'"
Gorelick wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post over the weekend defending herself and straightening out the record --- the "wall" did not begin with her, the concept dates back to the Reagan administration, was reaffirmed by Ashcroft's own deputy, and her memo actually sought, if anything, to weaken the wall.
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