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Its would seem that "He Who Speaks In Tongues" was silent!!!!

Report: Ashcroft, FBI Didn't Brief Bush 
 Tue May 21, 7:21 AM ET 

 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites)
and FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller were told soon after
Sept. 11 of a memorandum warning that extremists could be training at
flight schools but neither told the president, the New York Times
reported on Tuesday. 

Citing government officials, the Times said neither official briefed
president George W. Bush (news - web sites) about the memo from the FBI
in Phoenix in July. It warned that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s
followers could be training at American flight schools. 

The disclosure is expected to magnify criticism of the FBI's
performance, including its failure to act on the memorandum before the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites),
theTimes said. 

Ashcroft and Mueller have not said publicly when they learned of the
July 10 memorandum, the Times said.  "But the officials (interviewed)
said that within days of the attacks, senior law enforcement officials
grasped the document's significance as a potentially important missed
signal," the report added. 

 Last week the existence of the memo was acknowledged publicly after
lawmakers and congressional staff gained full access to it. The memo's
direct reference to bin Laden, identified as the mastermind behind the
attacks that killed more than 3,000 people at the World Trade Center,
Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania, had not been revealed before by the
U.S. government. 

 A senior Justice Department (news - web sites) official interviewed by
the Times told the newspaper that the attorney general was not briefed
in any detail or with any specificity about the document, known now as
the Phoenix memo, until about a month ago. 

 The Times said White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (news - web
sites) said