Ashcroft put the proverbial wood the former Janet Reno assistant, and current 9/11 Commission member, Jamie Gorelick:

Attorney General John Ashcroft strongly defended the Bush administration and himself today before the 9/11 commission, laying the blame for intelligence failures prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks squarely on the presidency of Bill Clinton.

Mr. Ashcroft said Al Qaeda was able to plan and carry out the attacks that killed some 3,000 people in large part because of policies of the Clinton administration and its deliberate neglect of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's computer technology.

"The simple fact of Sept. 11 is this," Mr. Ashcroft told members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States in a public hearing. "We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies.

...The attorney general sounded almost contemptuous as he spoke of a "legal wall" put into effect in 1995 to separate criminal investigators from intelligence agents in an effort to safeguard individual rights.

Far from protecting individual rights, Mr. Ashcroft asserted, the wall has been an obstacle to protecting the American people.

Referring to the 1995 document that constructed the figurative wall, Mr. Ashcroft went on to say, "Full disclosure compels me to inform you that the author of this memorandum is a member of the commission."

Emphasis mine. This is exactly what the Bush administration has to do, push it back on Clinton. Clinton has thus far got a pass.

Update: ABC News didn't even mention the Gorelick angle, which is extremely important in the context. To paraphrase what else Jennings had to say ' Cofer Black accepted some of the blame for 9/11, something we've not seen alot of'. Way to go Pete, you are so fair and non-partisan.