If your talking about former Director Pickard's statement your ears have no problems
You can find an entire transcript at the Washington Post, but here's the relevant text.
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BEN-VENISTE: You had some seven or eight meetings with the attorney general?
PICKARD: Somewhere in that number. I have the exact number, but I don't know the total.
BEN-VENISTE: And according to the statement that our staff took from you, you said that you would start each meeting discussing either counterterrorism or counterintelligence. At the same time the threat level was going up and was very high. Mr. Watson had come to you and said that the CIA was very concerned that there would be an attack. You said that you told the attorney general this fact repeatedly in these meetings. Is that correct?
PICKARD: I told him at least on two occasions.
BEN-VENISTE: And you told the staff according to this statement that Mr. Ashcroft told you that he did not want to hear about this anymore. Is that correct?
PICKARD: That is correct.
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There's also a Justice Dept. document that cites reducing gun violence and combating drug trafficking as their top priorities. Pickard says earlier that his request for additional counter-terrorism funds was denied, appealed and denied again by Ashcroft.
I think you guys are absolutely right that someone is going to have to be sacrificed. However, why Ashcroft? Why not Ms. Rice?
I would think it would be toss-up between the two.