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On July 26th, 2001, CBS released their story "Ashcroft Flying High", which is still described as one of the biggest evidence on prior knowledge about the Sep11th attack: "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." Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml
But John Ashcroft was aware of a pending attack on america! A few weeks earlier, on May 9, 2001, he testified in a Joint Hearing on U.S. Federal Efforts to Combat Terrorism: "...It is clear that American citizens are the target of choice of international terrorists... ...As relates to terrorist acts directed against U.S. interests overseas, the Department of Justice works closely with a number of other federal agencies, including the Departments of State, Defense, and the CIA... ...By making effective use of intelligence information, we seek to involve the FBI in the investigation of terrorist plots as early in the chain of conspiratorial events as possible..." http://www.senate.gov/~appropriations/commerce/testimony/agterror.htm At the same time Ashcroft ignored telephone calls by David Schippers (->), who was in contact with FBI-agent Robert Wright (->), who had infomations on an attack on america.