Subject: Feedback from the potential future
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:57:51 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@surfeu.at>
To: lifebridgenyc@aol.com, membership@noetic.org,
info@boundaryinstitute.org, shoup@boundaryinstitute.org,
radin@boundaryinstitute.org, cchapman@boulder.swri.edu,
harrisaw@colorado.edu, D.Bem@cornell.edu, un13@cornell.edu,
gemery@cox.net, press@csicop.org, tbrun@ias.edu, email@santafe.edu
 

Dear Colleagues:

Understanding the interconnectedness of all life is the scope of my efforts since January 1972. Please see my forthcoming CD ROM "Physics of Human Intention" at

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/CD.html

I propose a new arrow of time, called 'universal time arrow', which is based on Ulric Neisser's Cognitive Cycle applied to the whole universe. Take a glimpse at the whole story at

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/LHC.html#Holon

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Brun.html

But let's put aside terminology and theories and talk about the real things. We have all kinds of theories, since the inception of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882, but failed to prevent 9/11.

Science writer Gene Emery wrote (Tabloid Psychics Fail Again In 2002, December 31, 2002) at

http://www.csicop.org/articles/psychic-predictions/2002.html

"The September 11 terrorist attacks graphically illustrated the idea that people who claim to have psychic powers are frauds or are deluding themselves. Witness the fact that nobody predicted the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, otherwise thousands of deaths would have been averted." (...) "Here was an event whose impact resonated around the globe, yet it never resonated with the folks who tell you with great certainty where you misplaced your TV remove control."

Let's get real, and put aside our emotions and prejudices. We don't need spoon-bending

http://www.psiresearch.org/spoon.htm

nor street magic,

http://www.davidblaine.com

We need to enhance our intuition for practical purposes. It is a gut feeling which can be explained as "knowing something without knowing how we know it", but I don't think the method of enhancing this faculty of our mind should be sought in Indian mysticism, as suggested by Patanjali and reiterated by Dean Radin: "If you wish to be able to pay attention to things going on inside your head, you should pay attention to things going on inside your head. So how do you do that? Sit on a rock, close your eyes, quiet your mind, and pay attention.",

Harriet Rubin (August 2000), Can we develop an ability to have vision? Fast Company, Issue 37,
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/37//hrubin.html

I do hope this approach will not be explored anymore (Daryl J. Bem, ANTICIPATING EMOTIONAL EVENTS: NEW EXPERIMENTS IN PRECOGNITION. IONS lecture, January 29, 2003, 7:30 PM, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin at Geary, San Francisco, CA).

Instead of "sitting on a rock and closing our eyes" à la Patanjali, I suggest a *brain* training based on the theory of human psyche formulated by Dmitri Uznadze

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/PHI.html#Uznadze

and Vassily Nalimov,

V.V. NALIMOV. Realms of the Unconscious. The Enchanted Frontier, Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1982, 320 pp.,

http://panigada.hypermart.net/newsite/specialoffer.html

NB: In order to be prepared for some anticipated event, we need to get the *context information* fully and clearly. It seems to me that this crucial requirement has not been met by any research initiative since the inception of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882 by a distinguished group of Cambridge scholars. Hence we failed to prevent 9/11.

I'm located in Sofia, Bulgaria, and work alone. Unfortunately, I can not move forward without your support. Nobody can work alone in this field.

Please see my email of Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:45:19 +0200 printed below. I have not yet received any feedback. Hope to hear from you. Time is running out.

Regards,

Dimi Chakalov
http://members.aon.at/chakalov
http://members.aon.at/chakalov/about.html
 

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Subject: 9/11
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:45:19 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@surfeu.at>
Message-ID: <3E1DDF5F.861BB844@surfeu.at>
To: Puthoff@aol.com, satwater@irva.org, lynbuchanan@charter.net,
PHSmith@irva.org, james@jsasoc.com, rv-iia@mceagle.com, joe@mceagle.com, MonroeInst@aol.com, saschwartz@earthlink.net, info@lfr.org, may@lfr.org, Nonlethal2@aol.com, DeanRadin@noetic.org, rdnelson@princeton.edu, jeffrey@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov, bvr@uswest.net, russell@targ.com, bjd@princeton.edu, hhbauer@vt.edu
CC: walt.polansky@science.doe.gov, cole@aps.org
BCC: [snip]
References: 1,2,3
 

Dear Colleagues:

More than an hour before a jet hit World Trade Tower I, a peak of the activity of our collective consciousness was recorded. [Ref. 1] As acknowledged by Dean Radin, "There is no easy answer for why the peak in this curve occurred before the terrorist attack; the observable fact is that it did." [Ref. 2]

I believe can suggest an explanation of this seemingly 'back from the future' effect in terms of anticipation, as well as a brain training for extending such effects up to the point at which the evil intentions could be technically prevented. Please see my web site and

http://noosphere.global-mind.org/911formal.html

Time is precious, let's not waste it. Read Thomas Cochran at

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=
ns99993241

Regards,

Dimi
http://members.aon.at/chakalov
--
Dead matter makes quantum jumps; the living-and-quantum matter is smarter.

References

[Ref. 1] D. Radin, Exploring Relationships Between Random Physical Events and Mass Human Attention: Asking for Whom the Bell Tolls, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 16(4), 553 (2002); cf. p. 538 and Fig. 3.

[Ref. 2] Ibid., p. 546.
 
 

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Subject: Re: Feedback from the potential future
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:23:32 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@surfeu.at>
Message-ID: <3E3FF714.860CDDA9@surfeu.at>
To: lifebridgenyc@aol.com, membership@noetic.org,
info@boundaryinstitute.org, radin@boundaryinstitute.org,
cchapman@boulder.swri.edu, harrisaw@colorado.edu,
D.Bem@cornell.edu, un13@cornell.edu, gemery@cox.net,
press@csicop.org, tbrun@ias.edu, email@santafe.edu,
baygraff@chesapeake.net, Puthoff@aol.com, satwater@irva.org,
lynbuchanan@charter.net, PHSmith@irva.org, james@jsasoc.com,
rv-iia@mceagle.com, joe@mceagle.com, saschwartz@earthlink.net,
info@lfr.org, may@lfr.org, Nonlethal2@aol.com,
jeffrey@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov, bvr@uswest.net, russell@targ.com
 
 

Dear Colleagues,

You can read my email of Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:57:51 +0200 at

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Feedback.html

Time is running out. I do hope you are not playing that Bud commercial, "Watchin' da game, ... havin' a Bud..."

Hope to hear from you.

Regards,

Dimi
http://members.aon.at/chakalov

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Note: Clicking on "Time is running out" above will lead you to the New Scientist web site where you can read Fred Pearce's opinion "Counting the cost of war", New Scientist Online News, 29 January 2003,
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/iraq/
article.jsp?id=99993331

Fred Pearce: "Besides arms, Al-Qaida might also win hearts and minds. Few Iraqi civilians may mourn Saddam's departure, and as a secular leader, he is no friend of fundamentalist Muslims. But large-scale civilian casualties may anger many ordinary Arabs. That could nourish anti-Western feeling in the Middle East and act as a recruiting call for future terrorists. Might bin Laden be the unlikely beneficiary of a war with Iraq?"
 

Dimi Chakalov
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Latest update: Sunday, June 29, 2003
 

See also

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Subject: Gerard 't Hooft bet € 1000
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:12:00 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
To: DeanRadin@noetic.org, radin@boundaryinstitute.org
CC: G.tHooft@phys.uu.nl, rdnelson@princeton.edu,
bjd@princeton.edu, jeffrey@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov,
satwater@irva.org, lynbuchanan@charter.net, PHSmith@irva.org,
james@jsasoc.com, russell@targ.com, Nonlethal2@aol.com,
shoup@boundaryinstitute.org, baygraff@chesapeake.net,
email@santafe.edu, research@hq.nasa.gov
BCC: [snip]
 

Dear Dean,

I wonder if you know that Gerard 't Hooft bet € 1000 at

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/parabet.html

I think his bet is fair, justified, and totally safe. What do you think?

I believe you know that I mentioned your article at

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Feedback.html#1

Recall the recent massacre in Madrid, and don't keep silent, please.

The hottest places in Hell are booked for those who prefer to remain silent (after Dante, with a little 9/11 modification).

Dimi
--
http://God-does-not-play-dice.net

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Subject: Night thoughts
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 05:07:44 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
To: Jessica Utts <jmutts@ucdavis.edu>
CC: tachyondavis@hotmail.com, puthoff@aol.com, bdj10@cam.ac.uk,
     bjd@princeton.edu, russell@targ.com, Nonlethal2@aol.com,
     houp@boundaryinstitute.org, PHSmith@irva.org,
     baygraff@chesapeake.net, jeffrey@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov,
     tventura6@comcast.net
BCC: [snip]

Dear Jessica,

I spotted your name in a story about Stargate and SRI, from June 3, 2000,

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19081

What really struck me was a statement by Ms. Michelle Heaton: "I just have this gut feeling that within a short time ..." That was in June 2000, and I bet she had meant 9/11, not N. Korea.

You said in your review the RVs were accurate "around 15 percent of the time", but I think the crux of the matter is not about statistics: ESP doesn't work when needed most,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Feedback.html#bet

I think this is known since the time of the Roman Empire,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/faq.html#Q5

I agree that in many cases, "around 15 percent of the time", RVs can help the police and military, but they failed when needed most: 9/11.

My efforts are in entirely different direction,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Mallios.html#note

Please recall Ms. Suzanne Padfield: "In circumstances like these I would hardly bother with probability calculations, but they would be there for sticklers on experimental protocol."

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/right.html#Padfield

I don't want to imply that statistics is not needed; it really is. Only it may obscure the vital issue that we still don't know how to use our Collective Unconsciousness when we need it most. That is, how to harness the Synchronicity. There is a dreadful, but highly instructive story on p. 205, "Simulated Coincidence", in:

Martin Plimmer and Brian King, Beyond Coincidence, Icon Books, Cambridge, 2004, ISBN 1-84046-534-4 ,
http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/book.cfm?isbn=1-84046-534-4

If we want to 'get down to business', we should first study the possible *physical* nature of Synchronicity, right? If you agree, see my web site.

I regret that cannot be of help. Nobody is supporting my efforts, and nobody is interested either,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Josephson.html#Bud

Just some night thoughts, private and from the bottom of my heart. Please don't feel obliged to reply if you don't want to.

With sincere best wishes,

Dimi
--
http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net
http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/download.html

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Subject: Re: Night thoughts
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 00:31:40 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
To: jmutts@ucdavis.edu, tachyondavis@hotmail.com, puthoff@aol.com,
     bdj10@cam.ac.uk, bjd@princeton.edu, russell@targ.com,
     Nonlethal2@aol.com, houp@boundaryinstitute.org,
     PHSmith@irva.org, baygraff@chesapeake.net, tventura6@comcast.net
CC: Jeff Scargle <jeffrey@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov>

> the main crucial issue -- improve the abilities
> of RVs by NEW METHODS --

Enhance your Synchronicity by what you call PK,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Mallios.html#note

Perception and action are separated only in textbooks.

Good night.

Dimi

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The New York Times reported on April 10, 2004 that US President George W. Bush was told more than a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned a strike within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes.

Citing an unnamed government official, the newspaper said the warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001. It also said that intelligence officials received information in May 2001, three months earlier, that indicated "a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives".

On April 11, 2004, President George W. Bush said during a visit to Fort Hood in Texas that the August 6th memo contained "nothing about an attack on America. It talked about intentions, about somebody who hated America - well, we knew that." However, the memo specifically told Bush that Al-Qaida had reached American shores, had a support system in place and was engaging in "patterns of suspicious activity ... consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks."

A classified memorandum sent around July 4, 2001, to Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, from the counter-terrorism group run by Richard Clarke, described a series of steps it said the White House had taken to put the nation on heightened terrorist alert, according to the report.

Among the steps, the memorandum said, "all 56 FBI field offices were also tasked in late June to go to increased surveillance and contact with informants related to known or suspected terrorists in the United States".

The New York Times article at this URL is printed below. Note that the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has not been mentioned at all, nor the rumors that CIA station chief in Cairo has been alerted about advanced stages of executing a significant operation against an American target eight days before 9/11. Another interesting story told by the French newspaper Le Figaro is that two months before 9/11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital. He had arrived in Dubai on July 4, 2001, from Quetta in Pakistan, to be treated in the urology department. Everything went fine, as far as his precious health is concerned, only he was not arrested. Read the full story from The Guardian (Thursday, November 1, 2001), by Anthony Sampson here. Sure enough, the American hospital in Dubai immediately denied that Bin Laden was a patient there. Is this a flat lie produced by the French newspaper Le Figaro? I don't know. But let's see some facts that nobody has denied.

Perhaps the most astonishing fact is that one of the recruited terrorists, a 29-year-old British Muslim from Manchester, gave himself up to Atlantic City police in the spring of 2000, eighteen months prior to 9/11. He has been extensively questioned by FBI but nobody believed his story. Nobody could even consider the possibility that FBI would not know about such a plot. The story became even more bizarre when FBI decided to put him on lie detector test. The terrorist did pass the test. He was telling the truth, according to FBI standards. But -- no. FBI could not believe that somebody could know something that they don't know. After 3 (three) weeks the final instruction from FBI Headquarters was to fly him back to Britain and pass him to their British colleagues, just before Easter 2000.

This story was revealed by The Sunday Times on Sunday, May 9, 2004; see p. 1 and pp. 4-5. NBC also reported this incredible story, and even showed the face of the British Muslim. Now, look at the unclassified version of the 9/11 Commission report, which was made available by the National Archives on Thursday, February 10, 2005: The Federal Aviation Administration had 52 (fifty-two) pre-9/11 warnings (AP text here), but none of them contained even a hint to the British Muslim from Manchester! Unf******believable!

And yet on April 11, 2004, we heard from President Bush that the August 6th memo contained "nothing about an attack on America." Could we have done something to stop 9/11? "Maybe. We'll never know" (Richard Clarke).

Of course we'll never know, but we certainly can do better. Michael Moore has made a new movie, entitled Fahrenheit 911, but it will not help. Not at all. Talking in hindsight cannot be productive, we need to pinpoint all surreptitious evil intentions, like a cancer tumor which is being laid in the potential future (global mode of spacetime). Time is running out!

"It will take another five years of work to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs" (George Tenet, Wednesday, April 14, 2004). Compare this to the chilling statement by the head of British MI5, Mrs. Eliza Manningham-Butler: "It will only be a matter of time before a crude version of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack is launched at a western city" (The Sunday Times, May 9, 2004, p. 2).

Are Walter Polansky (DOE), Special Agent John Beer (FBI San Diego), and other bureaucrats reading these lines? Go ahead, say something. I wasn't born in the right country, you know. F****** Bulgarian. Scheißausländer.

Anyway. Of course they will keep quiet. The real problem is their firm believe that they know best. But do they? Here's something they probably do not know.

If we examine in hindsight the plan of Al-Qaida, which resulted on 9/11, we would probably say that it is doomed to fail. And yet the plan was carried out with full success. By what? I believe this was a bona fide case of the phenomenon of Synchronicity. It's not necessarily a nice thing. It could make two planes to collide in the air, against all odds. It can run against every "normal" prediction based on statistics. It can even make FBI totally blind and deaf, as in the case of the British Muslim from Manchester. See

Martin Plimmer and Brian King, Beyond Coincidence, Icon Books, Cambridge, 2004; UK Publication March 8, 2004, ISBN 1-84046-534-4.

Most importantly, the Synchronicity cannot be revealed and evaluated in
advance by any information technology, since it is not based on information. It is a mental phenomenon. We can reveal its pattern post factum only; see the story of "Simulated Coincidence" (Ibid., p. 205).

I'm not writing this because I hope that some physicist might pay attention to my concerns. A well-known physicist and student of Wolfgang Pauli said: "Synchronicity is something which physicists do not know about, nor would they wish to." They know best, just like FBI. It's hopeless.

Unless, of course, the Synchronicity would bring some open-minded person to this web page. You never know with Synchronicity. See Beyond Coincidence above. We have computers, we can converge all relevant information to some new 'decision making agency', and now all we need is a human brain.
 
 

D.C.
April 12, 2004
Last update: February 10, 2005
 
 
 
 

The New York Times
 



 
April 10, 2004

Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and DAVID E. SANGER
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to "several people who have seen the memo." The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

The Congressional report last year, citing efforts by Al Qaeda operatives beginning in 1997 to attack American soil, said that operatives appeared to have a support structure in the United States and that intelligence officials had "uncorroborated information" that Mr. bin Laden "wanted to hijack airplanes" to gain the release of imprisoned extremists. It also said that intelligence officials received information in May 2001, three months earlier, that indicated "a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives."

Also on Friday, the White House offered evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation received instructions more than two months before the Sept. 11 attacks to increase its scrutiny of terrorist suspects inside the United States. But it is unclear what action, if any, the bureau took in response.

The disclosure appeared to signal an effort by the White House to distance itself from the F.B.I. in the debate over whether the Bush administration did enough in the summer of 2001 to deter a possible terrorist attack in the United States in the face of increased warnings.

A classified memorandum, sent around July 4, 2001, to Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, from the counterterrorism group run by Richard A. Clarke, described a series of steps it said the White House had taken to put the nation on heightened terrorist alert. Among the steps, the memorandum said, "all 56 F.B.I. field offices were also tasked in late June to go to increased surveillance and contact with informants related to known or suspected terrorists in the United States." 

Parts of the White House memorandum were provided to The New York Times on Friday by a White House official seeking to bolster the public account provided a day before by Ms. Rice, who portrayed an administration aggressively working to deter a domestic terror attack. 

But law enforcement officials said Friday that they believed that Ms. Rice's testimony before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks ? including her account of scores of F.B.I. investigations under way that summer into suspected Qaeda cells operating in the United States ? overstated the scope, thrust and intensity of activities by the F.B.I. within American borders. 

Agents at that time were focused mainly on the threat of overseas attacks, law enforcement officials said. The F.B.I. was investigating numerous cases that involved international terrorism and may have had tangential connections to Al Qaeda, but one official said that despite Ms. Rice's account, the investigations were focused more overseas and "were not sleeper cell investigations." 

The finger-pointing will probably increase next week when numerous current and former senior law enforcement officials, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, testify before the Sept. 11 commission. In an unusual pre-emptive strike, Mr. Ashcroft's chief spokesman on Friday accused some Democrats on the commission of having "political axes to grind" in attacking the attorney general, who oversees the F.B.I., and unfairly blaming him for law enforcement failures.

A similar accusation against the commission was also leveled by Senator Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican with ties to the White House, in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday.

"Sadly, the commission's public hearings have allowed those with political axes to grind, like Richard Clarke, to play shamelessly to the partisan gallery of liberal special interests seeking to bring down the president," Mr. McConnell said.

The charges and countercharges underscored the political challenge that the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks has become for President Bush as he mounts his re-election bid. The White House sought this week to defuse the situation by allowing Ms. Rice to testify before the Sept. 11 commission after months of resistance. But her appearance served to raise new questions about the administration's efforts to deter an attack. 

The White House on Friday put off a decision on declassifying the document at the center of the debate ? the Aug. 6 briefing, titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." But the administration appeared ready to release at least portions of the document publicly in the coming days.

The memo from Mr. Clarke's group in July 2001 about F.B.I. activities adds another piece of evidence to the document trail, but it is unlikely to resolve the questions over whether the administration did enough to deter an attack. 

White House officials, who spent several weeks attacking Mr. Clarke's credibility, said Friday that they believed the memo from his counterterrorism group was an accurate reflection of steps the White House took to deter an attack. But they questioned whether the F.B.I. executed the instructions to intensify its scrutiny of terrorist suspects and contacts in the United States. 

In April 2001, the F.B.I. did send out a classified memo to its field offices directing agents to "check with their sources on any information they had relative to terrorism," said a senior law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. But with the level of threat warnings increasing markedly over the next several months, there is no indication that any directive went out in the late June period that was described in the memo from Mr. Clarke's office.

That summer saw a string of alerts by the F.B.I. and other government agencies about the heightened possibility of a terrorist attack, but most counterterrorism officials believed an attack would come in Saudi Arabia, Israel or elsewhere. Many also were worried about a July 4 attack and were relieved when that date passed uneventfully.

For months, the F.B.I. had been consumed by internal problems of its own, including the arrest of an agent, Robert P. Hanssen, on espionage charges, the disappearance of documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case and the fallout over the Wen Ho Lee spy case. Moreover, the bureau was going through a transition in leadership, with its longtime director, Louis J. Freeh, retiring in June 2001. He was replaced by an acting director, Thomas J. Pickard, until the current director, Robert S. Mueller III, took over in September, just days before the deadly hijackings. All three men will testify at next week's commission hearings and are expected to face sharp questioning about whether the F.B.I. did enough to prevent an attack in the weeks and months before Sept. 11.

At this week's appearance by Ms. Rice, several commissioners sharply questioned whether the F.B.I. and the Justice Department had done enough to act on intelligence warnings about an attack.

"We have done thousands of interviews here at the 9/11 commission," said Timothy J. Roemer, a Democratic member of the panel. "We have gone through literally millions of pieces of paper. To date, we have found nobody -- nobody at the F.B.I. who knows anything about a tasking of field offices" to identify the domestic threat.

The apparent miscommunication will probably be a central focus of the commission's hearing next week. Scrutiny is expected to focus in part on communication breakdowns between the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. that allowed two of the 19 hijackers to live openly in San Diego despite intelligence about their terrorist ties.

Another Democratic panel member, Jamie S. Gorelick, said at Thursday's hearing that Mr. Ashcroft was briefed in the summer of 2001 about terrorist threats "but there is no evidence of any activity by him." 

Such criticism led Mark Corallo, Mr. Ashcroft's chief spokesman at the Justice Department, to say Friday that "some people on the commission are seeking to score political points" by unfairly attacking Mr. Ashcroft's actions before Sept. 11. 

"Some have political axes to grind" against Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Corallo said in an interview, naming Ms. Gorelick, who was the deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration; Mr. Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana, and Richard Ben-Veniste, the former Watergate prosecutor. 

While insisting that he was not speaking personally for Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Corallo said he was offended by Ms. Gorelick's remarks in particular. Offering a detailed preview of Mr. Ashcroft's testimony next week, he said the attorney general was briefed repeatedly by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. on threats posed by Al Qaeda and was told that the threats were directed at targets overseas. "He was not briefed that there was any threat to the United States," Mr. Corallo said. "He kept asking if there was any action he needed to take, and he was constantly told no, you're doing everything you need to do."

Several commission officials denied in interviews that there was any attempt to treat Mr. Ashcroft unfairly. Al Felzenberg, a spokesman for panel, said that Mr. Ashcroft would be warmly received.

Ms. Gorelick said she was surprised by Mr. Corallo's comments and puzzled by assertions that the attorney general had no knowledge of a domestic terrorist threat in 2001. 

"This appears to be a debate within the administration," she said. "On the one hand, you have Dr. Rice saying that the domestic threat was being handled by the Justice Department and F.B.I., and on the other hand, you have the Justice Department saying that there did not appear to be a domestic threat to address. And that is a difference in view that we have to continue to explore."

The commission also heard testimony Friday morning behind closed doors from former Vice President Al Gore.

Former President Bill Clinton appeared before the panel in closed session on Thursday, but a Democratic commission member took issue Friday with Mr. Clinton's assertion that that there was not enough intelligence linking Al Qaeda to the 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole to justify a military attack on the terrorist organization.

"I think he did have enough proof to take action," Bob Kerrey, the former senator from Nebraska, said on ABC's 'Good Morning America.'
 

Philip Shenon, Adam Nagourney and James Risen contributed reporting for this article.