| Article: | Sept. 11 report: Ashcroft rejected counterterrorism FBI funds request on Sept. 10, 2001 WASHINGTON - The FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganize and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, and Attorney General John Ashcroft rejected an agency appeal for more funding on the day before al-Qaida struck, the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks said today. |