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Jamie Gorelick is a democrat that is currently serving on the 9/11 commission. Gorelick worked in the Clinton administration Justice Department (Attorney General Janet Reno’ deputy) and fought attempts by the FBI to expand the counterterrorism effort beyond simple law enforcement tactics and agencies. This is from a recently exposed memo by Ms Gorelick that restricts the sharing of information even beyond existing laws:

“Although the counterintelligence investigation may result in the incidental collection of information relevant to possible future criminal prosecutions, the primary purpose of the counter-intelligence investigation will be to collect foreign counterintelligence information. Because the counterintelligence investigation will involve the use of surveillance techniques authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Ace (FISA)against targets that, in some instances, had been subject to surveillance under Title III, and because it will involve some of the same sources and targets as the criminal investigation, we believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations.

These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required , will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”

Although there is an obvious conflict of interest, Ms Gorelick has refused to excuse herself from the commission. It seems to me that she should be answering commission questions as opposed to asking them. Does this make any commission results flawed? What do you think?