...That's 1995 - just in time for the information to run headlong into the Great Wall of Jamie Gorelick:


Six years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA warned in a classified report that Islamic extremists likely would strike on U.S. soil at landmarks in Washington or New York, or through the airline industry, according to intelligence officials.

Though hauntingly prescient, the CIA's 1995 National Intelligence Estimate did not yet name Osama bin Laden as a terrorist threat.

But within months the intelligence agency developed enough concern about the wealthy, Saudi-born militant to create a specific unit to track him and his followers, the officials told The Associated Press.

Had that data reached the FBI, possibly something might have been done (my pessimism is due to the fact that there was a lot of apathy about national security in 1995 - as is usually the case in Democrat administrations). Alas, CIA was restricted from passing that data on, thanks to then-Deputy Attorney General Gorelick.

Is there any doubt that Ms. Gorelick's seat on the 9/11 commission was secured so that what she knew and did would not become public knowledge? It's starting to look more and more like that's the case.