NY'S Cassandra

By Deborah Orin - August 17, 2005 - New York Post

PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's team ignored dire warnings that its approach to terrorism was "very dangerous" and could have "deadly results," according to a blistering memo just obtained by The Post.

Then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White wrote the memo as she pleaded in vain with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick to tear down the wall between intelligence and prosecutors, a wall that went beyond legal requirements.

Looking back after 9/11, the memo makes for eerie reading — because White's team foresaw, years in advance, that the Clinton-era wall would make it tougher to stop mass murder.

A Cassandra is someone who predicts the future but is not believed. The 9/11 Commission was nothing but a coverup and this was predicted by Mary Jo White. She must have felt extreme frustration at allowing Jamie Gorelick onto the 9/11 commission. Why did the Republicans allow this? What was gained by allowing Gorelick to be a part of the commission?

Was there no one who had enough brains to see that the action Gorelick took in creating the WALL, and the agressiveness with which she defended it, made her totally unfit to sit on a commission that was investigating the issue that wall was intended to affect?

Where are the Republicans who are as agressively interested in defending America as the democrats are agressive in subverting America? Time and time again we go along when democrats start shouting, as they did when the 9/11 commission was being formed, as we cannot see why they are so upset. We only find out years later what we should have seen at the start.

How many Cassandras will we ignore? Will we ever learn?