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In reply to the discussion: On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. They knew even a month before that!!!
Ashcroft Flying High
BY CBSNEWS.COM STAFF CBSNEWS.COM STAFF
JULY 26, 2001 / 7:04 PM / CBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashcroft-flying-high/
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.
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.
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On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]
Botany
Sep 2019
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Cheney had the pentagon conducting war games on 9/11/01 and those games simulated ...
Botany
Sep 2019
#3
And that in the late spring/early summer of 2001 Condi Rice told her friend Willie Brown not ...
Botany
Sep 2019
#15
Thanks for the reminder. She said they heard about hijacking but thought it was
Laura PourMeADrink
Sep 2019
#12