The End of "History"

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

That doesn't sound like idle chatter to me. It sounds like the where, the who and the how.

And eleven days earlier, the Justice Department confirmed that Johnny Asscrack was no longer flying on commercial airliners due to an FBI "threat assessment." Who is looking into that connection?