your veering away from the question
Ashcroft was telling Pickard how to talk to him. He was essentially telling Pickard "don't go there" and from that moment Pickard did not go there until 9/11. A clear indication that there's a very critical disfunction in our upper management. That along with two people at that meeting testifying under oath Ascroft said that. Yet Ashcroft denies it also under oath. There seems to be more of the story yet to be uncovered. A rare glimps into life of the icy fingers of control.