9/11: Ashcroft Exposed

Those folks over there at Center for American Progress are really stirring things up.
It turns out that Ashcroft repeated lied to a joint Congressional committee in February 2002:

from The Progress Report:
Ashcroft said that, immediately after 9/11, the FBI "came to me with a $670 million request, and we counseled them to take that to $ 1.1 billion."

But an internal Justice Department document obtained by CAP reveals that "the FBI requested $1.5 billion in additional funds to enhance its counterterrorism efforts" which Ashcroft cut to $531 million.

Ashcroft spokesman Mark Corallo attempted to dismiss the documents because they were circulated by a "think tank run by top former Clinton aide John Podesta" – but he did not dispute their authenticity or validity.

Check out the internal documents obtained by the Center for American Progress.

John Podesta is a fine man and he's got proof.

in the 10/2001 memo, Ashcroft cut the budget in half for a project called, "Trilogy -- accelerate the plan"
-- nice lotr reference. I'd really love to know where that money went.

If he did in fact lie to congress, then he should be prosecuted for perjury or at least thrown out of office.