Politics: J'accuse!

[Not Me]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118466,00.html

• The Justice Department released documents publicly on Wednesday that were given to the National Commission on Terror Attacks Upon the United States on Tuesday. The documents show that Gorelick was responsible for signing off on the new policy of separation and rejecting criticism from U.S. prosecutors who feared it could undermine future efforts to stop terror attacks.
  
  The documents also show sharp criticism from Mary Jo White, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, whose office prosecuted the terrorists convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. That office also indicted Usama bin Laden for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
  
  "It is hard to be totally comfortable with instructions to the FBI prohibiting contact with the United States Attorneys' offices when such prohibitions are not legally required," White wrote in a June 13, 1995, memo to then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
  
  White wrote that the new policy would leave prosecutors blind to ongoing terror investigations and could create arbitrary lines of communication. A top aide to Gorelick, Michael Vatis, wrote that Reno should request White's request that U.S. attorneys' offices should be notified of ongoing terrorism investigations at the outset. Vatis wrote that the request seemed to seek special treatment for White's office.
  
  Gorelick reviewed the Vatis memo and sent her handwritten approval of it to Reno. Gorelick has said that she will not resign, and commission chairman Thomas Kean has said she is doing a fine job on the panel and will not ask her to leave.