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WASHINGTON - An unapologetic Attorney General John Ashcroft battled charges Tuesday that he failed to focus on terrorism before the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed the Clinton administration for constructing legal obstacles that thwarted investigations into the al-Qaida terror network.
Figures. I've felt for a long time that the only way to fight partsan BS is with more partisan BS. A charge like this just cannot stand unchallenged. Blaming Clinton is just the same as blaming all Democrats, which is a campaign tool against John Kerry, and it's wrong.
But the axe swings both ways Johnny:
Others, however, laid the blame at Ashcroft's feet. Former acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard said Ashcroft rejected requests for more counterterrorism funding in the summer before the attacks, opting instead to concentrate on traditional crimes such as those involving guns and drugs. Pickard said he learned Ashcroft had rejected his appeal for more money on Sept. 12, 2001.
I'm listening to that great non-partisan, Sean Hannity, interview Solicitor General Ted Olson, who always gives me chills when he describes his phone call with his wife, Barbara, just before her plane crashed into the Pentagon. That man has a heart of stone as in the next breath he defends everything Ashcroft said at the 9/11 hearings, and took apart every point Janet Reno made which by any remote stretch of the imagination could be construed to be critical of Bush or Ashcroft. Unbelievable how much this man truly believes in the cult of Bush.
