Mary Jo White wrote a lot of blistering memos but her follow through was poor. She was angered by the late term pardons issued by Bill but then after investigating them she couldn't connect the dots herself. She thus earned the name Mary Jo Whitewash.
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 ...
[the NY Post doesn't post a copy- too bad]
... 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. "This is not an area where it is safe or prudent to build unnecessary walls or to compartmentalize our knowledge of any possible players, plans or activities," wrote White, herself a Clinton appointee.
[the article mentions some of the other intel problems here]
"....Could some of those dots have been connected, absent the wall? There's no way to know — but surely the 9/11 Commission should have examined the issue.
| This is the better story to hit at Gorelick and the firewall. Able Danger is too technical. It's a MEGO story. Nothing like a Federal DA who knows how to write. |
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