WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Ashcroft: Disappointed about report of pre-9/11 risk talks
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(Undated-AP) 9 2, 2006 - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft says he was never invited into any early-2001 talks about the risk of domestic terror attacks - but that he should have been.
In response to an account by investigative reporter Bob Woodward, Ashcroft tells The Associated Press he finds it "disappointing" that he wouldn't have been notified about reports of a pending attack on the US.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice disputes Woodward's account that then-CIA chief George Tenet warned her before September Eleventh that al-Qaida was about to strike. But she says she remembers the administration being "very worried" about "quite intense" but "also quite nebulous" threat reporting.
Ashcroft says he should have been notified because "the FBI is responsible for domestic terrorism." Ashcroft also says there should have been a plan for "covert action" to kill Osama bin Laden.
Posted 3:44pm by Bryce Mursch
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