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Jamie Gorelick: My 'Wall' Still in Place
Former 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick is giving the Bush administration a bad report card for failing to implement post 9/11 counterterrorism reforms. "I think we are less safe than we were 18 months ago," she told ABC's "Good Morning America." "We have a tremendous agenda. And we have just not been about doing what we need to make us safe." But Gorelick's main complaint seemed to be that a rule she implemented as Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton - which barred intelligence sharing between the FBI and CIA - was still being followed. "The FBI, while it started to reform, is not where it needs to be [on] information-sharing," she said. "We've taken down the legal walls. But the culture is still prohibiting the kind of information-sharing that we need to have."
Story Continues Below Gorelick made no mention of the fact that it was she herself who constructed the wall of separation - in a 1995 Justice Department directive that emphasized protecting the civil rights of terrorist suspects. Asked Sunday, however, whose fault it was that intelligence still wasn't being shared, Gorelick blamed the "short memories" of the American people. "When American citizens don't pressure their government, frankly, the government isn't as responsive as it needs to be," she said.
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