How John Ashcroft saved his own sorry rear end, and not the lives of 2,973

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.attytood.com/2006/10/how_john_ashcroft_saved_his_ow.html

Just over three years ago, when such things were not in vogue, we wrote an article about the 20 unanwered questions of 9/11. It's sad, but three years later, many of them are still unanswered -- but at least we are finally getting some info. Here's one of those questions we asked on Sept. 11, 2003:

2. Why did Attorney General John Ashcroft and some Pentagon officials cancel commercial-airline trips before Sept. 11?

On July 26, 2001 - 47 days before the Sept. 11 attacks - CBS News reported that Ashcroft was flying expensive charters rather than commercial flights because of a "threat assessment" by the FBI. CBS said, "Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term." Newsweek later reported that on Sept. 10, 2001, "a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns."

Did either Ashcroft or the Pentagon have advance information about a 9/11-style attack and, if so, why wasn't this shared with the American public?

Tonight, it looks like we can answer the first half of this one.

[Kagemusha]

1. I've said it before but, what the hell could he have done, anyway?

Could Ashcroft have forced Bush to take the issue seriously? NO.

Could Ashcroft have saved lives by claiming without evidence that is in his legal right to divulge, or with such evidence and therefore exposing himself to deep legal peril, that airplanes were in danger of a coordinated terror offensive, thereby economically harming the airline industry and sparking what would have been widely considered a false panic?

Ashcroft alone couldn't do a damned thing. Not when the President doesn't want to hear it.

[bananas]

3. After it happened, he could have gone public

He could have become a whistle-blower.
He could have prosecuted the Enron criminals a lot more aggressively.
He was slime.
He hid Lady Liberty behind a curtain!

[Amonester]

2. And the answer to the second half of this one is pretty obvious to...

any who would only dare to take a few minutes off their busy schedules, and read what the PNAC criminals wrote about their wet dream of seeing some three thousands American citizens and visitors die so they would become much more obscenely rich and wealthy than they already were, at the expense of the working class's blood and tax-money.

lihop :grr:

[JimDandy]

4. Kicking it simply for the comments at the linked site. n/t