Report ASAP on the new 'pester' William Safire Monday, May 10, 2004 WASHINGTON "Is it not possible, sir," said the inquisitor Richard Ben-Veniste of the witness before the 9/11 commission, "that were you to have pulsed the FBI … that that information might have been made available to you?" "I think it's pretty clear that I was pulsing the FBI," Attorney General John Ashcroft replied. That unfamiliar verb was used earlier in the public hearings by the former Clinton Justice Department official Jamie Gorelick, who asked another witness, "Instead of waiting for the intelligence community to feed you the list...