In a speech earlier this year, Mr. Watson insisted that "there was no information in that Phoenix memo that would connect back to the 19 hijackers on 9-11."

And I am very much aware of the fact that the Phoenix memo and the Rowley letter include suspicions of terrorist activity that were based in part on ethnicity.

The F.B.I. was pounded over the Phoenix memo.

He said that the Moussaoui information and the Phoenix memo went to the same unit at headquarters but no connection was made.

The committee report states that one of the individuals mentioned in the Phoenix memo had trained with Mr. Hanjour at an Arizona flight school as early as 1997.

FBI electronic communication, Phoenix memo, July 10, 2001.

Neither the president nor I have recollection of ever hearing about the Phoenix memo in the time prior to Sept. 11.

Later, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) called the Phoenix memo "a virtual blueprint" that should have signaled the Bureau to the 9/11 plot.

Johnson's piece appeared on July 10, the day the FBI's New York office got the Phoenix memo.

As its author told investigators, the Phoenix memo was not an alert about suicide pilots.

In a speech earlier this year, Mr. Watson insisted that "there was no information in that Phoenix memo that would connect back to the 19 hijackers on 9-11."

And I am very much aware of the fact that the Phoenix memo and the Rowley letter include suspicions of terrorist activity that were based in part on ethnicity.

The F.B.I. was pounded over the Phoenix memo.

He said that the Moussaoui information and the Phoenix memo went to the same unit at headquarters but no connection was made.

The committee report states that one of the individuals mentioned in the Phoenix memo had trained with Mr. Hanjour at an Arizona flight school as early as 1997.

FBI electronic communication, Phoenix memo, July 10, 2001.

Neither the president nor I have recollection of ever hearing about the Phoenix memo in the time prior to Sept. 11.

Later, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) called the Phoenix memo "a virtual blueprint" that should have signaled the Bureau to the 9/11 plot.

Johnson's piece appeared on July 10, the day the FBI's New York office got the Phoenix memo.

As its author told investigators, the Phoenix memo was not an alert about suicide pilots.