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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (14389)	4/13/2004 10:53:15 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Looks Like Ashcroft Ignored Terrorism Too pre 9-11: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department (news - web sites) under Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) failed in 2001 to treat counterterrorism as a top priority, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said in a report issued on Tuesday. The commission staff statement focused on a Justice Department document that set out priorities for 2001 issued May 10 of that year. The top priorities were reducing gun violence and combating drug trafficking. It made no mention of counterterrorism. The report said when Dale Watson, the head of the counterterrorism division, saw the report, he "almost fell out of his chair." "The FBI (news - web sites)'s new counterterrorism strategy was not a focus of the Justice Department in 2001," the staff report said. Then-acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard said he appealed to Ashcroft for more money for counterterrorism but on Sept 10, 2001, one day before the attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people, Ashcroft rejected the appeal.

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