It looks like almost the entire 9/11 commission's report is going to be about the failure of communications between intelligence agencies. So is Gorelick recusing herself from working on the report? JFC, what a fucking joke that she is still on the commission.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/6-...054502_12.html
- One example of the FBI's troubles was seen in the case of Sept. 11 hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were linked by the CIA to al-Qaida and were found to have entered the United States in summer 2001. FBI agents involved in the criminal probe couldn't track the men down because intelligence officials weren't allowed to share information on the case.*
The two would later board American Airlines Flight 77, which slammed into the Pentagon.
"The restrictions on the FBI after Watergate prohibiting them from modernizing and computerizing their data systems (and) from keeping track of watchlists and investigations" were among the biggest obstacles to terror prevention, Lehman said. "It made it impossible for the FBI to share information even within the bureau."
*Who the fuck prevented them from communicating? Anyone care to take a guess?
