NBC Nightly News Exclusive

[Digit]

Not good news for Ashcroft
Tune in....coming up...east coast time

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. keep us cube rats posted, please!

[Renew Deal]

2. Cube rat in the house

:hi:

[shraby]

15. In the 9/11 testimony Pickard

stated that Ashcroft had told him he didn't want to hear about al Queda anymore. Ashcroft denied it under oath.
Two other men testified that indeed, Ashcroft had told Pickard he didn't want to hear any more about it.

[hlthe2b]

19. Another!

:toast:

[wryter2000]

3. Please, please

I can't wait to hear. I'm still at work on the Left Coast.

[Digit]

4. Coming up next

It is about Ashcroft saying he did not brush off terrorist warnings and that is now being refuted.
Details to come...

[wryter2000]

5. Thanks!

:kick:

[Bluebear]

6. .

[Tatiana]

7. Looks like the FBI is turning on Ashcroft?

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. An FBI agent was in the room at a meeting

and HE says...Asscroft blew off the info he was getting about Al Qaeda.
Hehe! Take that Asscroft! That's all they said. Of course Asscroft's assistant was there, he doesn't remember what was said. :eyes: How convenient!

[Bluebear]

12. July 2001...isn't that when Ashcroft stopped flying commercial?

Maybe he didn't blow off the info, he just applied it to the safety of his own ass.

[Stephanie]

23. ASHCROFT FLYING HIGH

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml
Ashcroft Flying High
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

(CBS) Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

[wryter2000]

13. Wow

Maybe if we hit people over the head with the truth long enough, some of it will sink in.

[Trajan]

9. These kind of Teaser threads should be outlawed ....

Damnit ! ...

[Digit]

10. FBI agent Garcia

...confirmed to the 9/11 Commission that Ashcroft brushed off Picard's terrorism warning in July 2001 meeting.
Of course Ashcroft denies this.

[jasmeel]

11. They said the FBI was told by the whitehouse about the threat

of terror?? I thought the whitehouse could have cared less about al qaeda.It sounds like Ashcroft might be the fall guy??

[wryter2000]

14. Welcome to DU

:hi: Jasmeel.

[Mandate My Ass]

16. Ashcroft and fall guy sounds almost as good as

Ashcroft and convicted felon serving hard time in
a Federal penitentiary.

Welcome to DU. :-)

[AP]

22. Remember the MN warrant to look at what's his name's computer?

(The flight school attendee who wanted to learn to fly into buildings, but not take off or land.)

The justice department had to approve the request for the warrant.

There had been hundreds of that kind of warrant in the past, and the DoJ always granted them.

The first one they ever denied was the one for the guy's computer.

[Stephanie]

25. FISA warrant

Almost never denied, until, inexplicably, Moussaoui.

[Gold Metal Flake]

26. Seems that FISA warrants in general...

Came to a screeching halt when the Asscroft D of J took over. Just another example of the Great Ignore that was the Bush Administrations Counterterrorism response prior to 9/11.

[AnnitaR]

17. He LIED under Oath!

He is in Comtempt of Congress!

What the hell else does this evil fuck have to do before they haul his ass out???

[Robbien]

18. Did Ashcroft brush off terror warnings?

NBC exclusive: 9/11 commission interviews FBI officials who contradict Ashcroft testimony
By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:37 p.m. ET June 22, 2004

WASHINGTON - The 9/11 commission is busy writing its final report, but is still investigating critical facts, including the conduct of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. NBC News has learned that the commission has interviewed two FBI officials who contradict sworn testimony by Ashcroft, about whether he brushed off terrorism warnings in the summer of 2001.

. . .

At issue is a July 5, 2001, meeting between Ashcroft and acting FBI Director Tom Pickard. That month, the threat of an al-Qaida attack was so high, the White House summoned the FBI and domestic agencies, and warned them to be on alert.

Yet, Pickard testified to the 9/11 commission that when he tried to brief Ashcroft just a week later, on July 12, about the terror threat inside the United States, he got the brush off.

"Mr. Ashcroft told you that he did not want to hear about this anymore," Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste asked on April 13. "Is that correct?" "That is correct," Pickard replied.

Testifying under oath the same day, Ashcroft categorically denied the allegation, saying, "I did never speak to him saying that I didn't want to hear about terrorism."

more
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5271234/

[Bluebear]

20. "I did never speak to him"....what in the hell syntax is that?

Nervous about something?

[Stephanie]

28. Biblical, by way of Charlton Heston

and Cecil B. DeMille.

[gratuitous]

21. Terrorism is none of the public's business

But of course, Crisco Johnny made sure his sacred ass was safe by flying only chartered, private aircraft from July 2001 on:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

You, the public, are in danger of getting hijacked or blown up? Crisco Johnny, compassionate conservative, Jesus' home slice, couldn't care less . . .

[gauguin57]

24. Fire that man's sorry ass!

Fire it!

[dusty64]

27. Yet he will still

keep his job after lying again and again.