"The second report quoted Pickard as saying he had briefed Ashcroft on terrorist threats in late June and July 2001 but the attorney general was not interested.
"After two such briefings, the attorney general told him he did not want to hear this information anymore," the report quoted Pickard as saying. Pickard himself repeated the charge in his testimony but Ashcroft vehemently denied it. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20040413/pl_nm/security_commission_dc_18Gee, wonder who is lying?
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