McClatchy Washington Bureau | 10/02/2006 | Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11: "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "