...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."

However, another senior FBI official tells NBC News he vividly recalls Pickard returning from the meeting that day furious that Ashcroft had cut short the terrorism briefing. This official, now retired, has talked to the 9/11 commission.

MSNBC article

Hmmm. After 9/11, the National Security Advisor claims nobody could have imagined aircraft being used as weapons, and now we learn that in the days before Black Tuesday, the Attorney General didn't want to hear warnings about possible terror attacks on the US.

Ashcroft, who had been warned by his staff to quit flying commercial aircraft because of security concerns, seems to have dismissed Pickard's warnings about Al-Qaeda at the same time he was accepting his security staff's advice about flying.

But I know, I know. It's all Clinton's fault because he didn't strengthen cockpit doors after the WTC attacks in '93.

Don't think anything yet.
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