President takes the high road...

President takes the high road...
In his meeting Thursday with the Sept. 11 commission, President Bush expressed strong disapproval of his Department of Justice for releasing documents that Republicans are using to criticize a Democrat on the commission. On Wednesday, some congressional Republicans declared that newly released material posted on the Justice Department Web site showed that panel member Jamie Gorelick was involved in action that might have weakened the nation's defenses against terrorism.

Gorelick was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration. "The president was disappointed" over the release of the documents on the department Web site and "we were not involved in that," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. Bush's disapproval was relayed to the department, and "the president does not believe we ought to be pointing fingers. ... We ought to be working together to help the commission complete its work," McClellan said. Department spokesman Mark Corallo declined to comment. Some congressional Republicans who requested the documents say Gorelick helped develop 1995 guidelines that made it difficult for FBI counterintelligence agents to share information with prosecutors and criminal investigators.