Ashcroft suffers the same disease as Rice

Ashcroft Warned Pre-9/11
By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t Report

In an interview with the New York Times Monday, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said he was never briefed in early July 2001 by then-CIA Director George Tenet about a purported terrorist threat against the United States by al-Qaeda the spy agency had received.
"Frankly, I'm disappointed that I didn't get that kind of briefing," Ashcroft told the Times. "I'm surprised he didn't think it was important enough to come by and tell me."
But Ashcroft was not being forthcoming. He was in fact warned about the possibility of a terrorist attack two months before 9/11 and told by his top officials in July 2001 to avoid traveling aboard commercial airliners because the FBI had received a credible "threat assessment" against the United States.
Indeed, on July 26, 2001, ten days after Tenet met with then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to brief her about intelligence the CIA had obtained involving al-Qaeda's determination to strike the United States, CBS News reported that Ashcroft was traveling aboard a chartered government jet - which was considered highly unusual - to spend a weekend in Missouri fishing.
"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," CBS reported.
"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman told CBS. "Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it."
Moreover, on Tuesday, the State Department confirmed that in addition to Rice, Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had also been briefed by Tenet about al-Qaeda's efforts to attack the US within a week of the July 10, 2001, meeting between Tenet and Rice.

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Memory loss must be in the GOP koolaid...