I have some questions with the 9-11 Commission finding as well but have serious doubts about any preplanned conspiracy. If the WTC was secretly rigged to implode then I have to wonder if after flight 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania if there were some secretly set explosives in the White House or the Capital that needed to be quickly and quietly removed after the conspiracy plan went awry.
My main problem with the 9-11 Commission is having Jamie Gorelick as a member of the commission after she erected the "wall" that barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, already in custody on an immigration violation. Then having the Commission ignore this important detail.
"A 1995 Department of Justice memorandum states that the procedures her memorandum put in place for the investigation of the first WTC bombing "go beyond what is legally required...[to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation." The wall intentionally exceeded the requirements of FISA for the purposes of criminal investigations, as well as the then-existing federal case law. These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations."
For some reason Gorelick seems untouchable by Dems and even Repubs. It puzles me how she seemed unscathed after helping oversee a $10 billion accounting scandal at Fannie Mae that helped cover up $9 billion in losses which resulted in Gorelick, Raines and three other executives at Fannie getting 6 and 7 figure bonuses in 1998. I hear Dems always complaining about executives in private business being grossly over paid compared to the Average Joe but never hear many complaints about Gorelick receiving more then $26.5 million for serving as vice chairwoman at Fannie Mae for 6 years while the books were cooked and enormous losses were concealed. Gorelick in an interveiw with Business Week said, "We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody's gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength -- without a reference to the government in any way. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions." One year later the improper accounting and the $9 billion in losses were exposed.
Even more puzzling is that Gorelick was appointed as second in charge of Fannie at such a high salary when she had no previous training nor experience in finance. I'm wondering if she had something on Bill to help get her this job.
