TRANSCRIPT

June 8, 2002 Jamestown NY (Jamestown Community College)

Excerpt from press conference: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

Snowshoe Films: In your recent remarks to Congress regarding
 the events of 9/11, you mentioned that there was an official
 in the current administration who advised other officials
 not to fly on commercial airlines – as early as August, 2001
 and even earlier. Who was that official?

Sen. Clinton: “Well, the information, which has been public
 for many months, is that the attorney general [John Ashcroft]
 decided not to fly commercially, based on some assessment of
 existing threat level.”